Around 1,000 protesters marched in Naha, the capital of Okinawa Prefecture, on Sunday in protest against the relocation of a controversial U.S. military base and demanded the closure of all bases on the island.
A U.S. Navy sailor arrested on suspicion of assaulting a woman in a hotel in Naha City, Okinawa Prefecture, admitting to raping her, local media reported Wednesday.
The Japanese government lodged a protest with the United States over an alleged rape committed by a U.S. navy sailor in Japan's southernmost island prefecture of Okinawa on Sunday, top government spokesman Yoshihide Suga said Monday.
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.
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.
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.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe would disappoint U.S. President Barack Obama over the U.S.-led Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade talks as the Japanese conservative leader said Friday that his country would not make easy concessions on accelerating the negotiations.
The Okinawa prefectural government on Monday ordered the suspension of underwater work in a coastal area in Nago city in the Japan's southernmost island prefecture for a relocation site for the U.S. Futenma airbase, according to local report.
The Japanese government will push forward with a bilateral deal with the United States to relocate a controversial U.S. air station in a densely populated city of Okinawa, to a coastal region of the island, as part of a realignment of U.S. forces here, a top government spokesperson said Monday.
Japan and the United States on Tuesday confirmed to move the training involving controversial U.S. MV-22 Ospreys out of Japan's southernmost island prefecture of Okinawa, according to local media.
Japan's Okinawa governor on Friday approved the landfill work to relocate the U.S. Futenma airbase within the Japanese southernmost prefecture, reported local media.
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