Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Friday he has decided to temporarily suspend preliminary work on moving a Marine Corps base on Okinawa and talk about the contentious relocation plan.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe indicated Friday he will accept a court-proposed settlement deal with the prefectural government of Okinawa aimed at bringing an end to a protracted legal spat over landfill work for the planned relocation of a U.S. military base within Japan's southernmost prefecture.
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe remained tightlipped Monday following the victory of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party-backed incumbent in a mayoral election in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, a day earlier.
Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party-backed incumbent Atsushi Sakima secured a second four-year term as the mayor of Ginowan City, Okinawa Prefecture, in a key election Sunday.
Some 1,000 people gathered in front of the U.S. Marine Corps Camp Schwab in Nago, Okinawa on Wednesday to mark the 500th day of the sit-in protest against the central government's plan of relocating a U.S. Air base within the prefecture.
Japan's Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Minister Keiichi Ishii filed a lawsuit Tuesday with the Naha branch of the Fukuoka High Court, demanding that Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga officially retract his decision to revoke a permit granted for landfill work for the relocation of a U.S. air base.
A private Chinese biotechnology company plans to mass produce a vaccine against the Ebola virus developed by Chinese military scientists.
The governor of Japan's Okinawa prefecture said Monday his prefecture will nullify an order approved to carry out landfill projects for a new U.S. base.
Japan's central government on Tuesday maintained that it would continue with its plans to relocate a controversial U.S. marine base within Japan's southernmost prefecture of Okinawa, despite mounting opposition from both the island's locals and officials and following no headway being made on official talks on the stalled issue between central and local governments.
Two missiles became detached from a British Tornado plane and fell on the ground while the plane was landing at an airbase on the south coast of Cyprus, but did not explode, a British spokesman said on Wednesday.
The base camp on the north face of Mount Qomolangma in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region will reopen to climbers on Wednesday, according to local tourism authorities.
The addition of up to 450 U.S. military personnel and the opening of a training base in Iraq are an adjustment to the campaign against the Islamic State (IS), the Pentagon said on Thursday.
A rift is widening dramatically between Japan's central government and local officials and citizens in Okinawa Prefecture following an order by its governor for the defense bureau to halt drilling at the site of a planned new U.S. military base in a coastal region on the island being overturned and sparking protests in the region.
The Saudi-led coalition forces launched a fresh air strike against a Houthi-controlled air base in Yemen's southern province of Taiz on Thursday night, a government official told Xinhua.
A Russian soldier accused of murdering seven members of an Armenian family will be court martialled in a Russian military base, local media reported Monday.
The Dayawan nuclear power base, China's largest, generated a record 45.4 billion kwh of electricity last year, the operator said on Wednesday.
Dozens of soldiers were killed in an attack suspected to be a perpetration of Boko Haram in northeastern Nigeria's state of Borno, local media reported on Sunday, citing top ranking security sources.
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