Pending repairs to the island airfield, the Air Force’s 18th Wing since December 2023 has made its training drops about once ...

A French Navy frigate is making a port call at a US military base in Okinawa Prefecture, southwestern Japan. The vessel is taking part in a trilateral exercise with Japan and the United States in the ...

The Department of Defense Education Activity has released few details about the accidental death this week of a Kadena High ...

Japan has not engaged in war since World War II, maintaining a pacifist stance under its post-war constitution. However, ...

NAHA--Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki has set ... He said current plans to return U.S. military bases to Japan, agreed to by both countries, fail to come close to achieving his goal.

A Russian Navy surveillance ship made a nine-day cruise in the vicinity of Japan’s southwest islands approaching as close as ...

A People’s Liberation Army (PLAN) surface action group and an amphibious task group made separate transits through the Miyako ...

A crash involving a U.S. Navy electronic-warfare aircraft in California this week is drawing attention to non-combat military aviation accidents.

But U.S. military bases that had routinely used firefighting foam are also thought to be a key source of PFAS contamination. Okinawa Prefecture, where 70 percent of all U.S. bases in Japan are ...

Japan and the United States are arranging a late March meeting in Japan between Defense Minister Gen Nakatani and U.S.

Junko Yokota is legally blind in one eye. At first, her parents thought she was just a clumsy child who occasionally bumped ...

At his first summit with U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday, Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba obtained reassurance ...