AwindowfellfromaUShelicopterontoaschoolsportsfieldnearaMarinesairbaseinOkinawaonWednesday,themilitarysaid,thelatestinaseriesofaccidentsthathavefannedsafetyconce
JapaneseDefenseMinisterItsunoriOnoderasaidonThursdaythattheU.S.forcesinJapanwillgroundallofitsCH-53Ehelicoptersfollowingoneofthetransportchopperscrash-landingne
AU.S.militaryaircraftmayhavecrashedonWednesdayinnorthernOkinawa,localmediareported,quotinglocalfiredepartmentsources.Localauthoritieswereinvestigatingtheinciden
A U.S. military Osprey aircraft made an emergency landing Tuesday night on an island in Japan's southernmost prefecture of Okinawa, Japan's Defense Ministry said Wednesday.
AU.S.militaryOspreyaircraftmadeanemergencylandingTuesdaynightonanislandinJapan'ssouthernmostprefectureofOkinawa,Japan'sDefenseMinistrysaidWednesday.Theministrys
About 70 percent of the Sekisei Lagoon coral reef in Okinawa Prefecture, the largest such reef in the nation, has died, according to the Environment Ministry.
The Japanese government celebrated on Thursday the return by the U.S. military of a 4000-hectare training land in Okinawa, while local people continued efforts to protest against the resumption of controversial Osprey flights as well as U.S. military presence in the island prefecture.
Japan's Supreme Court has ruled in favour of the government's plan to relocate a US airbase to a remote part of the island of Okinawa.
The Okinawa prefectural government on Friday lodged an appeal to a ruling made by the Naha branch of the Fukuoka High Court supporting the central government's controversial moves to relocate a U.S. base within Japan's southernmost prefecture.
A U.S. fighter jet crashed off the coast of Japan's southernmost prefecture of Okinawa on Thursday afternoon shortly after taking off from an air base in the region, the Defense Ministry and local government officials here said.
A 23,000-year-old fishing hook, the world’s oldest, was excavated from a cave here, a discovery that counters the theory that early Stone Age humans could not survive for long on Japan’s southernmost islands, researchers said.
Opponents of planned U.S. helipads on Japan's southern island of Okinawa have stepped up protests in Tokyo after the central government used military aircraft to transport equipment for the project.
Japan and the United States will amend an archaic pact that governs the way U.S. military personnel and base-linked civilian workers are dealt with legally following rising instances of crimes committed by U.S. service people in Japan.
The Okinawa prefecture lodged a fresh protest Monday to the U.S. military over a case of DUI (driving under the influence) committed by a U.S. Base worker a day earlier.
Strong anger poured out against Japan’s mainland as well as the Japanese and U.S. governments at a massive rally held here on June 19 to protest the slaying of a local woman.
Thousands of Okinawans rallied on an Ounoyama track field in Naha on June 19 to express their outrage over a former U.S. Marine who is under arrest in connection with the slaying of a local woman.
"The Japanese and American governments regard Okinawa as their 'military colony' and the Okinawan people should continue their fight to change the status quo," said Kantoku Teruya, a member of the lower house of the Japanese parliament from Okinawa during an exclusive interview with Xinhua recently.
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