The Okinawa Prefectural Government will file a fresh lawsuit against the central government next month to demand that work on the replacement for U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma be halted, the governor said. The move will reignite the legal tussle between the prefecture and ...
Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga will join a rally later this week to protest the relocation of a U.S. military base's operations within the prefecture, a prefectural government source has said. Onaga, who was elected on an anti-base platform in 2014, was last year forced to ...
The government plans to start maritime construction work as early as next week at the planned relocation site for a key U.S. airbase in Okinawa, a government source said Tuesday. The move, which is likely to trigger further local opposition, comes after the government's resumption ...
In late December, work to relocate U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma was resumed at its Okinawa replacement site in Nago to the fury of locals who fear the project will destroy their lives and the environment. Yukihisa Fujimoto, 62, a film director who has ...
Tuesday's crash involving a U.S. Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey aircraft off Okinawa was most likely not the result of mechanical error, the top commander of the U.S. military in Japan told Defense Minister Tomomi Inada in a phone call on Wednesday, according to government ...
A U.S. Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey aircraft ditched off Okinawa on Tuesday night in the first major accident involving the tilt-rotor transport aircraft in Japan. The five crew members aboard ejected from the aircraft and were rescued by the U.S. military, the Defense Ministry said. ...
Documents reveal that the U.S. Marine Corps is amassing information on Okinawan anti-base protesters as well as journalists.
The Naha branch of the Fukuoka High Court finds Gov. Takeshi Onaga’s cancellation of a landfill work order contravened the law.
A government panel tasked with helping resolve the dispute between the Okinawa and central governments over the relocation of a U.S. air base has refrained from taking sides and instead called on the parties to hold "sincere discussions." In a decision announced Friday, the panel ...
A massive rally is expected to be held in Okinawa to protest the latest crime by a U.S. base worker, organizers said Sunday, with the incident stoking the underlying resentment about the heavy U.S. military presence in the island prefecture. The organizers — including local ...
A plan in the mid-1960s to build a large base off the coast of Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, was approved by a top U.S. military official, according to a declassified U.S. document obtained by Kyodo News. The document suggests that half a century ago, the U.S. ...
The head of the U.S. Pacific Command announces a likely lag in the relocation of Okinawa’s Marine Corps Air Station Futenma.
