In Japan's southwestern prefecture of Okinawa, American troops landed on its main island on April 1, 1945 toward the end of World War Two. Eighty years since, people in Yomitan Village where US ...

GRAFENWOEHR, Germany — On April 8, 1945, hundreds of American bombers ... previously covered Okinawa, Sasebo Naval Base and Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, for the news organization.

Denjitsu Ishimine, mayor of the village of Yomitan ... for the government of Okinawa and a completely contemptuous attitude towards the people of that part of Japan". "It is such short-term ...

Two U.S. Marines in Okinawa, Japan are under investigation for alleged rapes, police say, the latest in a string of assault ...

The first formal forum between U.S. military and Okinawan leaders is set to convene May 9, a move proposed last year in ...

Two US marines stationed in Okinawa, Japan, face investigation ... in his 20s is suspected of raping a Japanese woman at an American military base in March, and is also suspected of injuring ...

OKINAWA, Japan — US soldiers joined Japanese officials and residents in Okinawa for a one-off joint nighttime patrol on Friday following sexual assault cases involving American servicemen.

The US has around 54 000 military personnel stationed in Japan - mostly on the subtropical southern island of Okinawa, to the east of Taiwan. "A US marine in his 20s is suspected of raping a Japanese ...

A U.S. Marine in his 20s is facing criminal charges including allegedly raping a woman last month in a restroom of an American military base in Japan's Okinawa, investigative sources said Wednesday.