The burden of hosting U.S. military bases continues to be a serious issue for Okinawa, even half a century after its return to Japan. Fifty years after Okinawa was returned to Japan’s control ...

Okinawa makes up just 1% of Japanese land mass but hosts 70% of all U.S. military bases in the country. They have long been a source of tension with local residents, explained Yoko Shima ...

In Okinawa, the thought that the victim could well have been oneself or one’s daughter is common enough. A song by Yoko Tamaki goes, “The girls who were killed by military bases in their ...

Part of that plan includes booting roughly 9,000 Marines out of Okinawa, an island that accounts for less than 1% of Japan's total land mass, but houses 70% of all U.S. military facilities in the ...

Unless corrective measures are made, and quickly, the anti-U.S. military base sentiment and movement in Okinawa will grow, damaging Japan-U.S. cooperation at a crucial time. The Ministry of ...

“In order to prevent a recurrence of such an accident, we must get rid of all U.S. bases,” she said. She asserted that Okinawa could once again become a battlefield since the Self-Defense ...

For so many years, Okinawa Prefecture has been forced by the national government to bear the excessive burden of hosting a number of military bases. It is not acceptable for the central government ...