Over 80 years after Soviet forces seized four islands from Japan, former Japanese residents remain unable to return to their ...

The 5,000 U.S. Marines and 1,300 dependents now stationed in Okinawa should stay there, and the $6.2 billion Marine facilities on Guam could be used by the Army. That’s the proposal put forward last ...

For many years, the US has been planning to reduce its footprint in southern Japan and move thousands of Marines to places ...

On Feb. 23, 1945, during World War II, U.S. Marines on Iwo Jima captured Mount Suribachi, where they raised two American ...

From heroic service in World War II to operations in the Middle East, these vessels fought across the world and are now ...

U.S. Marines load onto CH-53E Super Stallions after conducting a helicopter raid as part of a combined Marine Corps Combat Readiness Evaluation on Ie-Shima, Okinawa, Japan, Jan. 27, 2026. (Cpl. John ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Russian director Sergei Eisenstein called her a “dollar princess” and Vanity Fair entitled its generally ...

Nearly two decades ago the United States and Japan signed an initiative to reduce the number of Marines in Okinawa. Now experts with the Atlantic Council think tank in Washington, D.C. warn that ...

CAMP COURTNEY, Okinawa — An infantry officer with experience in Okinawa, Italy, Iraq and Afghanistan has taken command of the Marine Corps’ only permanently deployed expeditionary brigade. Brig. Gen.

In recent years, scholarly interest in Ryukyu has continued to rise. The Ryukyu Islands are scattered across the waters from the northeast of China's Taiwan island to the southwest of Japan's Kyushu ...

Japan's Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal filed by a US Air Force member against a five-year prison term handed down by a lower court for sexually assaulting an underage girl in the southern ...