Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga on Friday called on Tokyo to pressure Washington to stop conducting parachuting drills at Kadena Air Base because they apparently violate a 1996 Japan-U.S. accord. The use of the U.S. Air Force base for the drills was supposed to be an ...
Residents near U.S. Kadena Air Base in Okinawa receive a record ¥30.2 billion in noise pollution redress from the central government, marking the largest ruling of its kind.
Police in Okinawa plan to serve a fresh arrest warrant on a detained civilian U.S. base worker on suspicion of rape and murder on Thursday in connection with the death of a 20-year-old local woman in April, investigative sources said Tuesday. Kenneth Franklin Shinzato, a ...
Attendance by women at an annual self-defense seminar in Uruma, Okinawa Prefecture, increased fivefold this year amid heightened concern following the recent murder of a local woman allegedly at the hands of a U.S. base worker. Hosted by Uruma Police Station, as many as 150 ...
U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter apologized Saturday after an American base worker was arrested over the death of an Okinawa woman, a case that has stoked anger among islanders already upset for decades with the heavy U.S. military presence. Carter extended "his sincere apologies to ...
A former U.S. Marine admits killing a young Japanese woman in Okinawa, priming the prefecture for another wave of harsh anti-U.S. sentiment.
Documents recently obtained under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act highlight the American base's struggles to manage hazardous waste.
For the first time, documents released under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act reveal extensive pollution on an active American base in Japan.
U.S. documents released under the Freedom of Information Act reveal that lax safety standards at Kadena Air Base in Okinawa may be to blame for the recent contamination of local drinking water sources.
Rusting barrels unearthed on former U.S. military land in the city of Okinawa are confirmed as containing chemical precursors to the toxic defoliant Agent Orange.
My first glimpse of Koza was a burned out car on a monochrome print I picked up at a recycle shop in Naha. I would see the image again when I visited the history section of the Okinawa City Hall, where there was a ...
Perhaps the most serious concern raised in the internal U.S. military report is the fear that PCB contamination at Kadena — if made public — would prompt demands for widespread tests on other U.S. bases.
