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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

People in Okinawa are coming out in force to protest ... and arrested him outside a US military base. Marine Lance Corporal Jamel Clayton is stationed at Camp Schwab. A crowd of about 100 gathered ...

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 ...