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A fire broke out Friday during firearms training at a rifle range in northern Okinawa, burning more than 215,000 square feet, ...
Japanese police arrested two U.S. service members on Okinawa over the weekend in separate incidents — one on suspicion of ...
The new base will replace the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan, also in Okinawa Prefecture. It is being built on reclaimed land off Nago’s Henoko district, and the project has ...
The incident involving Jamel Clayton is likely to further escalate anti-American sentiment in the prefecture A US Marine in his 20s in Okinawa prefecture was arrested in May on suspicion of injuring a ...
A high court on Wednesday ordered the Okinawa prefectural ... to relocate a US military base within the prefecture. The central government plans to move the US Marine Corps Futenma Air Station ...
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 ...
NAHA, Japan: Prosecutors in Okinawa prefecture on Sept 20 indicted a US Marine over alleged nonconsensual ... about 70 per cent of all US military bases and facilities in the country.
Environmental impact of what happens at U.S. bases has been a major concern on Okinawa. In April ... cancer-causing substances leaked out of the Marine Air Station Futenma at the center of ...
Camp Blaz is the first new Marine base built since 1952 and is intended to support relocation of 5,000 marines and their dependents from Okinawa, Japan. Base construction destroyed more than 1,200 ...