The US military is slowly scaling down its presence in Okinawa following decades of talks and delays colored by lingering ...

U.S. Marines, airmen and Japanese emergency responders practiced their skills and response times through a simulated aircraft ...

A Pentagon statement that it will not return Futenma to Japan until it provides a replacement runway is not new, Japan’s defense minister said.

The Marine Corps just killed height-and-weight screenings. A completely new method is now the standard for every Marine's ...

Analysts point to a shift in priorities among younger Okinawans as a possible factor in the alliance’s bruising defeat in the ...

In November 2023, a U.S. Osprey from the Yokota air base in Tokyo crashed off the island of Yakushima, Kagoshima Prefecture, ...

Twenty years after the Defense Policy Review Initiative promised 5,000 Marines would relocate from Okinawa to Guam, a recent ...

The Pentagon stated recently that the United States has no intention of returning the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma ...

The US does not intend to vacate the current airbase for now due to disagreement over runway length at a replacement site, a ...

The Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force has decided to cancel the dispatch of a V-22 Osprey transport aircraft to the Iron Fist joint exercise with the U.S. Marine Corps in Okinawa Prefecture, Jiji ...

U.S. Marines load onto CH-53E Super Stallions after conducting a helicopter raid as part of a combined Marine Corps Combat Readiness Evaluation on Ie-Shima, Okinawa, Japan, Jan. 27, 2026. (Cpl. John ...

True lethality in 21st-century warfare requires more than mastering an airframe or logistics; it requires global integration.