The United States and Japan agreed in 2012 to relocate about 9,000 Marines from Okinawa to other locations in the Pacific.

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.

and misery of the 82-day battle for Okinawa was disheartening for the Marines. For Jack Hoag and George Niland, with the 6th Marine Division, the future seemed bleak. On Okinawa, both had ...

During the Bilateral Aircraft Mishap Functional Training Exercise, U.S. Navy sailors and Japanese emergency responders ...

We found a former Marine who survived the battle of Sugarloaf Hill. Former corporal Joe Drago was 19 when he was sent to Okinawa. Army intelligence released an analysis of Japanese army tactics.

They were young Americans who either volunteered for service or were drafted and ended up in Okinawa. Eugene B. Sledge (1923-2001), a U.S. Marine who survived the battle, chronicled his ...

Currently, there are 19,000 U.S. Marines stationed in Okinawa. The island location is ... where the island was the site of a bloody battle that claimed the lives of 200,000 people, including ...

A construction vessel spilled oil at the site of a future Marine Corps airfield in northern Okinawa over the weekend.

The reborn battalion adopted the motto “Hold the High Torch” to honor the 4th Regiment Marines who were captured at Corregidor, and it went on to fight at Guam and Okinawa. Cpl. Richard Bush ...

Police in Okinawa Prefecture on Wednesday sent papers on a U.S. Marine in his 30s to public prosecutors for alleged nonconsensual sexual intercourse resulting in injury. Police notified the ...

ITOMAN, Okinawa Prefecture--A scaled-down memorial ... construction in Henoko as a replacement facility for the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma.