The Marine Corps is committed to the defense of Japan and meeting operational requirements to maintain a free and open Indo-Pacific, and it will maintain presence in the region “through a combination of stationing and rotating Marines in Japan, Guam and Hawaii,” the joint statement sai...
US, Japan agree to keep Marine air base on OkinawaMALCOLM FOSTER
US military officials press to keep Marine air base on OkinawaMalcolm Foster
An island group of the central Ryukyu Islands in the western Pacific Ocean southwest of Japan. In World War IIOkinawa,the largest island in the group, was the scene of fierce combat between the Japanese and US Army and Marine forces (April 1-June 21, 1945). The islands were returned to...
Gov. Denny Tamaki said he could say only that a “few dozen” cases had been found recently because the U.S. military asked that the exact figure not be released. The outbreaks occurred at Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, which is at the center of a relocation dispute, and Camp Hansen...
In the lawsuit, filed with the Naha branch of the Fukuoka High Court, Okinawa tried to challenge the legality of Ishii's role in authorizing the work to build a replacement facility for U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma. According to local media, many Okinawa residents have long hoped...
Okinawa International University, foreground, is located adjacent to U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture. (Asahi Shimbun file photo) NAHA--Outbreaks of the coronavirus at U.S. bases have caused universities in Okinawa Prefecture to restrict students from entering ...
The Okinawa government says the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism illegally suspended the prefectural governor’s cancellation of approval for reclamation work needed to relocate US Marine Corps Air Station Futenma to a less-populated part of the island called Henoko. ...
The protest comes one year after the central government started building seawalls as one of the first steps of building the new base, which will see the functions of the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in densely-populated Naha transferred to the coastal Henoko region also on the isla...
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