Air Station Futenma

Okinawans angry with Hashimoto say sex services...
The Maehara Shinmachi area in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, today (Setsuko Tachikawa)
May 24, 2013
Citing the failure of similar attempts decades earlier, Okinawan residents have criticized Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto's recent suggestion that U.S. military members use legal...
EDITORIAL: Election campaign should offer proposals ...
December 03, 2012
In waters off the Senkaku Islands in Okinawa Prefecture, where the azure sky blends with the sea, a tense maritime face-off unfolds almost daily.
Okinawa governor tours U.S. to win support for air...
Okinawa Governor Hirokazu Nakaima, center, speaks at a symposium in Washington on Oct. 23. (Satoshi Okumura)
October 26, 2012
WASHINGTON--With his push to relocate U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan out of his prefecture going nowhere, Okinawa Governor Hirokazu Nakaima traveled to the...
U.S. Osprey involved in 58 mishaps; opposition to...
Bound for Japan, MV-22 Osprey aircraft on the Green Ridge cargo ship at Naval Air Station North Island in San Diego on June 29 (Provided by U.S. Forces Japan)
July 20, 2012
Osprey transport aircraft were involved in 58 “mishaps” between 2006 and 2011, U.S. military documents showed, as debate over their deployment to Japan intensified,...
U.S. Osprey aircraft to arrive in Japan on July 23
A U.S. Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey transport aircraft in San Diego is loaded on a transport vessel bound for Japan on June 29. (Provided by U.S. Forces Japan)
July 19, 2012
Despite persistent protests in Japan, Washington has notified Tokyo that 12 MV-22 Osprey transport aircraft will arrive at the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni in...
Defense minister plays down Osprey fears
Okinawa Governor Hirokazu Nakaima, center, and Ginowan Mayor Atsushi Sakima, right, meet Defense Minister Satoshi Morimoto in Tokyo on June 19 to request that he calls off the plan to station Osprey transport aircraft at the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma. (Eiji Hori)
June 27, 2012
Defense Minister Satoshi Morimoto, trying to quell an uproar over U.S. plans to deploy Osprey transport aircraft in Japan, said at least one of the two recent crashes overseas...
Japan, U.S. to station Osprey aircraft directly in...
An MV-22 Osprey transport aircraft (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
May 11, 2012
Tokyo and Washington have decided to assign 12 MV-22 Osprey transport aircraft to a U.S. military facility in Naha, the capital of Okinawa Prefecture, in mid-July, sources said,...
Japan to cover building costs for U.S. bases...
U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
April 25, 2012
Tokyo will cover construction costs of U.S. military facilities outside Japan if the Self-Defense Forces can use them, and will provide weapons to neighboring countries under...
New demands emerge in revised U.S. military...
An aerial view of Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni taken in October 2010 (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
February 07, 2012
Proposed changes to the U.S. military’s realignment plan in Japan have sparked new demands from both sides over money and transfers, as efforts to relocate the Futenma air...
EDITORIAL: New Okinawa base agreement should lead...
February 07, 2012
The issue of relocating the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Okinawa Prefecture has reached a major turning point.
Okinawa defense chief fired over rape remark
Defense Minister Yasuo Ichikawa is surrounded by reporters as he leaves the Defense Ministry on Nov. 29. (Hikaru Uchida)
November 29, 2011
Defense Minister Yasuo Ichikawa dismissed the director-general of the Okinawa Defense Bureau on Nov. 29 after he reportedly compared the delayed release of an environment...
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