Kiyoko Tokashiki recalls braving the pouring rain in a park in 1972 to protest the reversion of Okinawa to Japan while U.S.

Rain failed to dampen the spirits of thousands of Japanese and Americans who turned up for the Flight Line Fair at Marine ...

NAHA—After more than half a century, a “glue” that has united Okinawa prefectural residents is losing its grip.

Protesters in Naha, Okinawa’s capital, raise placards during a rally to oppose the Futenma relocation plan in May 2015. Credit: REUTERS/Kyodo On October 13, Okinawan Governor Takeshi Onaga made good ...

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — Landfill on a controversial new U.S. military runway that will one day facilitate the relocation and closure of Marine Corps Air Station Futenma began Friday in Okinawa ...

Okinawa Governor Hirokazu Nakaima’s decision to grant the permit to build a U.S. Marine Corps airbase on an offshore landfill near the village of Henoko village is being hailed as an important ...

By Okinawan standards, it may not have been the U-turn of the century: the island is well accustomed to politicians saying one thing and then doing the exact opposite. Rather, the decision of Governor ...

In my last post I explained how Japan’s current (in my view, unhealthy and potentially dangerous) political circumstances of a dispirited, disorganized, fragmented, leaderless, and incoherent ...