The murder of 39-year-old Anna Yagi is the latest in a string of crimes involving US personnel on Okinawa.

The arrest of a U.S. marine on suspicion of murdering an Okinawan woman has led to a reckoning with U.S. military presence in Japan.

Anti-base signs on the fence separating the U.S. Marine Corps’ Camp Schwab and Henoko, Nago in Okinawa, Japan. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/ Vitalie Ciubotaru In Japan, there are 76 exclusive-use U.S. military bases, hosted at the invitation of the Japanese ...

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — The U.S. military is enlisting some unlikely recruits in Japan: adorable mascots. From a smiling cartoon cargo plane at Yokota Air Base to a soon-to-be-named tanuki, or Japanese raccoon dog, for U.S. Army Garrison Japan, American ...

For decades, residents of Japan’s Okinawa have strongly opposed the US military bases that dot the region but a subtle shift is under way – Copyright South Korean ...

Japan is looking at a very tech-forward solution to an ongoing military recruitment shortage. The country is exploring whether humanoid robots powered by “physical AI” could take on some duties currently handled by members of its Self-Defense Forces (SDF),