In 2003, then-U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld flew over Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Futenma, Okinawa, looked down, and declared it to be “the most dangerous base in the world.” ...

Protesters in Naha, Okinawa’s capital, raise placards during a rally to oppose the Futenma relocation plan in May 2015. Credit: REUTERS/Kyodo On October 13, Okinawan Governor Takeshi Onaga made ...

But the U.S. military presence on Okinawa has been a political touchstone for years and a plan to move the Futenma base has been stalled since 1996. The deal was supported by the government of ...

He announced that official talks with U.S. officials concerning the relocation of Futenma began Tuesday in Tokyo. Earlier in the day, Hatoyama told Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima that moving all ...

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — Okinawa prefecture again wants to sample soil and water on Marine Corps Air Station Futenma after detecting PFOS at a neighboring elementary school in December.

Peter Lee, the base’s commander. His air base, Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, is known around Okinawa as “the most dangerous base in the world” because the city of Ginowan, with 96,000 ...

More than half of the roughly 50,000 U.S. troops in Japan are based in Okinawa. The vast majority of the new cases have been confirmed at U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma and the Marines ...

The commander of the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Okinawa, Japan, has been relieved from his post over a "loss of trust and confidence in his ability to lead his command," an official ...

Okinawa residents wait in line to board and tour an MV-22B Osprey June 6, during the Futenma Flightline Fair on Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, Okinawa, Japan. Along with the Ospreys ...

and the Futenma base. The US military plans to move about 4,000 of the 19,000 Marines from Okinawa to the US territory of Guam from 2024 to 2028. Adm. Harry Harris, the head of the US Pacific ...

The reclamation work in Oura Bay in the city of Nago is part of the project to build a replacement facility for U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan, also in Okinawa, off Nago’s ...

Peter Lee, the base’s commander. His air base, Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, is known around Okinawa as “the most dangerous base in the world” because the city of Ginowan, with 96,000 ...