How long does the government intend to continue with the process of ignoring opposing views and accumulating fait accompli?
For years, both Japan and the United States have insisted that constructing a U.S. air station off Nago in Okinawa Prefecture ...
CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa – A Japanese Cabinet minister this week gave Okinawa’s governor until Wednesday to approve design changes for a coastal airfield planned to replace Marine Corps Air Station ...
GINOWAN, Okinawa — Almost 24,000 people surrounded Marine Corps Air Station Futenma here Sunday, forming a 6.8-mile human chain to demand the air base close. The event was part of a weekend of ...
Then Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto, left, and U.S. Ambassador to Japan Walter Mondale attend an April 12, 1996, press conference in Tokyo on an agreement to return the site of U.S. Marine ...
This show a construction work at Henoko in Nago, Okinawa prefecture, southern Japan Monday, Sept. 4, where the Japanese government plans to relocate a U.S. air base from one area of the prefecture to ...
U.S. Marines Corps aircraft and vehicles with 1st Marine Aircraft Wing stage on the runway at Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, Okinawa, Japan, Oct. 24, 2025. 1st MAW performed an elephant walk to ...
Like a child who played with matches and then begged others to put out the fire, Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama is now desperately seeking a solution to his self-inflicted Futenma crisis. Washington ...
(The third paragraph contained an erroneous description about the press conference room at the prime minister's office. The room used at the time of the 1996 agreement is different from the one ...