The 12th Marine Regiment stationed at Camp Hansen in the town of Kin and surrounding municipalities in Okinawa Prefecture will be redesignated as the 12th Marine Littoral Regiment, the Marine ...

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — At least three U.S. Navy ships and four Marine Corps Ospreys will join an annual amphibious exercise by Marines, sailors and Japanese troops next month, according to Japan’s ...

A recent cluster infection in Okinawa Prefecture among members ... coronavirus over an eight-day period at the U.S. Marine Corps’ Camp Hansen in Kin. As of Dec. 22, at least five Omicron cases ...

Researchers found high concentrations of toxic “forever chemicals” in seawater offshore Okinawa in 2023, suggesting this ...

where Camp Blaz will serve as their primary installation. Although the Marine Corps is committed to drawing down to about 10,000 Marines on Okinawa, the move to Guam is a “challenge,” Smith ...

The Marine Corps and Navy need to keep investing in realistic training simulators, multi-domain integrated exercises, more lethality and advanced technologies that keep up with new threats to better ...

The commandant of the Marine Corps expressed concern Wednesday over a U.S. agreement with the Japanese government that requires the service to move thousands of its troops off of Okinawa.

Although Okinawa makes up only 0.6 percent of Japan's territory, it hosts over half of the 50,000 American soldiers stationed in the country. The relocation of the Marines aims to alleviate this ...

Denny Tamaki, the Governor of Okinawa Prefecture, has called for a timetable for the transfer of 9,000 U.S. Marines from Okinawa to Guam, after decades of local complaints regarding the U.S ...

TOKYO (AP) — U.S. Marines have begun a partial transfer from Okinawa to Guam, 12 years after Japan and the United States agreed on their realignment to reduce the heavy burden of American troop ...