NAHA, Okinawa — A civilian employee from Kadena Air Base, home of the 18th Wing, was arrested over the weekend on suspicion of attempting to carry live ammunition through a security checkpoint at Naha ...

Japan’s defense minister promised to reduce the U.S. military’s footprint there and expand joint exercises near Japan’s ...

NAHA—In his first meeting with Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi, Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki reiterated long-standing ...

Following a tsunami alert after the earthquake, Naha evacuated its F-15s in the airbase’s streets, higher than the local aprons. The X account of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force’s Naha air base, on ...

Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi on Wednesday met with Nago Mayor Taketoyo Toguchi to seek local understanding for relocating the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma air base to the southern Japan ...

Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki expressed his concern about the planned revision of Japan's three key national security-related documents during a meeting with Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi in the s ...

The air base, located in a densely populated area in Okinawa’s Ginowan, is to be moved to the Henoko coastal area in Nago.