A high school student whose father is a U.S. Marine stationed at Camp McTureous in the city of Uruma in Okinawa has been arrested on charges including robbery. The 18-year-old is suspected of robbing a delicatessen in the city at around 5:25 a.m. Friday after ...
The Okinawa Prefectural Government records Tuesday’s ditching of the aircraft off Nago as a crash rather than a forced landing as defined by the U.S. military and Japanese government.
South Korea's Marine Corps Command plans to station a combat unit on the eastern island of Ulleung from 2018 in a bid to help deal with North Korea's military threats, the military command said in a report to parliament on Tuesday. The plan appears to ...
Before his brazen jailbreak last year, notorious drug boss Joaquin "Chapo" Guzman instructed his lawyers to trademark his name, giving Mexican authorities their first clue he wanted to make a film of his life, local media said on Tuesday. The world's most wanted drug kingpin, ...
Women will be allowed in all combat positions throughout the U.S. military, ending decades of exclusion from front-line jobs, Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced Thursday. "To succeed in our mission of national defense, we cannot afford to cut ourselves off from half the country's talents ...
U.S. officials told the governor of Okinawa on Wednesday that a U.S. forces presence in his prefecture is key to the U.S. commitment to defend Japan. Officials from the U.S. State and Defense Departments told Takeshi Onaga in a meeting in Washington that the United ...
As the Marines scrambled to the roof of the U.S. Embassy, they locked a chain-link gate on every other floor to slow the throng of panicked Vietnamese civilians sure to come behind them. They knew if the crowd pushed through to the top, they ...
Congress decides to clear funding for the transfer of thousands of marines from Okinawa to Guam, allowing the U.S. military to shrink its giant footprint there.
American military officials wanted Japan to conduct an environmental impact assessment on an inland area in Okinawa Prefecture where a controversial U.S. base was being planned without public disclosure.
If China invaded the Japan-held Senkaku Islands, U.S. Marines in the Pacific would swiftly recapture them, the commander of marines deployed in Japan assured. "It's a very, very small collection of small islands," the U.S. military newspaper Stars and Stripes quoted Lt. Gen. John Wissler ...
For 10 years, Hiroshi Ashitomi has been coming to the beach near his Okinawa home every day to sit. He loves nothing more than the sea around the island, the rare sightings of dugongs and sea turtles, the tan sand and the crags out ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe asked U.S. Sen. John McCain on Wednesday to ensure Washington allocates budgetary funds to help cover the relocation of U.S. Marine Corps personnel to Guam from Okinawa, as agreed upon by the two countries. At a separate meeting in Tokyo, Defense ...
