Japan's plans to transform the remote uninhabited island of Mageshima into a strategic military hub have hit a wall On a ...

Type 03 Chu-SAM surface-to-air missiles are set to be deployed on Japan's westernmost island of Yonaguni, 110 kilometers (68 ...

Bad weather and a chronic labour shortage will delay the completion of an air base on a remote Japanese island by three years, Japan’s Ministry of Defence (MOD) says.

According to official statistics, from 1972 to 2023, U.S. soldiers stationed on the southern island ... and the Japanese government decided to start the construction of the Henoko base in August ...

On Sunday, about 20 Okinawan farmers and vendors came to Camp Hansen, a Marine Corps base on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa, bringing locally grown spinach, pineapples, big lemons and ...

Japanese officials are touting a new Ground Self-Defense Force base on Ishigaki Island as a crucial final component in the country’s line of defense against China. But residents of the island ...

In the 23 years since the end of World War II, the Japanese have created an economic miracle out of the war time ruins. To some degree at least, this progress was made possible by the American ...

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — American troops recently joined ... stated his intent to reunite the self-governing and democratic island with the mainland, by force if necessary.

Dozens of U.S. and Japanese military aircraft held training around Okinawa Island in the Western Pacific Ocean.