CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — Relocating a Marine Corps airfield from a heavily populated city on Okinawa to a rural northern area in phases would unnecessarily lengthen the time to build the new facility, ...

TOKYO -- The southern Japanese city of Iwakuni on Sunday overwhelmingly rejected the relocation of a U.S. naval air wing, in a nonbinding vote that has emerged as a symbol of opposition to the ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - A majority of voters in a referendum on Okinawa opposed a plan to relocate a U.S. military base within the southern Japanese island, but the central government said on Monday it ...

Japan’s fleet of V-22 Ospreys will move this summer to a permanent base on Kyushu, keeping to a schedule the Ministry of Defense announced two years ago, according to Defense Minister Gen Nakatani.