US Swaps Okinawa Base Land for Japanese Military Support Future Military Crises in Asia May See Bigger Role for Japan in Aiding USSOMETIMES when you give a little, you get a lot in return.US and Japanese officials yesterday announced agreements to hand back roughly 20 percent of the land the...
Kadena Air Force Base in Okinawa, Japan Okinawa, US Military Bases in Japan Kadena Air Base is a United States Air Force installation on the Japanese island of Okinawa, often referred to as the “Keystone of the Pacific”. At present, it is the largest United States Air Force base in the...
US military officials press to keep Marine air base on OkinawaMalcolm Foster
The relocation of MCAS Futenma that has been agreed since 1996 by Japan and the United States was still not fully approved by Okinawa people. The Okinawa people do not want the military base to be relocated to Nago city, because they wanted the US military base to be completely removed ...
The US military presence on the small Japanese island of Okinawais in as much doubt now as it...McCurry, Justin
About 65,000 people attended the rally. Many held signs demanding the Marines leave and the overall military on Okinawa be scaled back. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government is behind the security agreement with the US, and wants Japan to take on a bigger military role on the international...
A clash between Japan’s central government and Okinawa island, host to the bulk of US troops in Japan, deepened yesterday when the southern island’s governor ordered a halt to underwater work at the site of a planned relocation of a US Marine base. ...
Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki has urged Japan’s central government to do more to reduce the U.S. military presence in the southern island group. U.S. Ambassador Rahm Emanuel, who proposed the event, said the market brought healthy, local produce to consumers at Camp Hansen, while ...
About 20,000 people gathered at the Japanese Diet on Saturday to protest a government decision to relocate a controversial new US military base in Okinawa. The central government recently resumed work to relocate the US base from Futenma to the Henoko district in central Okinawa despite opposition...
Japan Taiwan World Wednesday 17 May 2023 at 10:35pm Debi Edward Asia Correspondent Overshadowing a G7 meeting in Japan is the regional threat of China to another of its neighbours, Taiwan - Debi Edward reports Okinawa isJapan’s southernmost prefecture; it is closer to Taipei than it is ...