Both surveys noted that around 70 percent of all U.S. military bases and facilities in Japan are currently located in Okinawa Prefecture. The Okinawa survey was conducted ahead of the 50th ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 2012, the U.S. announced a plan to relocate 9,000 Marines from Okinawa, where military bases are seen as burdensome. Residents complain about pollution, noise, and helicopter-related accidents.

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 ...