The U.S. Marine Corps orders a one-day grounding of all its aircraft worldwide following the fatal crash of an MV-22 Osprey off Australia earlier this month.
The Defense Ministry on Friday said it would continue to let Ospreys fly in Japan after receiving U.S. assurances the tilt-rotor aircraft is safe despite last week's fatal MV-22 crash off Australia. The U.S. Marine Corps MV-22, which was based in Okinawa, crashed on Saturday ...
The U.S. Marine Corps may ground its fleet of Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft as well as other planes to conduct a safety review following a crash in Australia that killed three Marines, a defense official said Monday. The Japan-based Marine MV-22 Osprey crashed Saturday during an ...
The United States on Monday returned a small part of U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma to Japan. The return of the roughly 4-hectare strip of land from the 481-hectare base is apparently aimed at showing residents the central government is making progress in reducing ...
The Okinawa Prefectural Government filed a fresh lawsuit against the central government Monday, seeking a halt in work at the relocation site for the U.S. Futenma air base. It was the latest shot in Okinawa's long-running fight against the plan to relocate the functions currently ...
The Okinawa Prefectural Government will file a new lawsuit against the central government Monday to block ongoing construction work at the relocation site for a contentious U.S. Marine base, local government sources said Friday. The move will reignite the legal dispute between the central and ...
Three months after the Okinawa Defense Bureau started seawall construction off the coast of Nago in Okinawa's Henoko district, work to build a replacement facility for a U.S. military base in Ginowan is moving forward — and along with it, renewed legal and political ...
Lt. Col. Kris E. Roberts, who found dozens of barrels of hazardous waste buried at U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in 1981, reflects on the consequences of that discovery.
Former Okinawa Gov. Masahide Ota, a noted historian and survivor of the Battle of Okinawa, succumbs to pneumonia.
Nearly five decades after America handed Okinawa back to Japan, the prefecture continues to host a lopsidedly heavy U.S. military presence.
Instead of clinging to the Henoko plan, the Abe administration should at least explore an alternative to the Futenma relocation project, which could prevent its confrontation with Okinawa from developing into a situation in which local sentiment deepens against the U.S. military presence on ...
Two runways are set to be built in the Henoko area of Nago to replace the Futenma air base on the other side of the island.
