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Last month, U.S. military police mistakenly detained an American citizen during a solo patrol in the city of Okinawa.
JAPAN
Dec 27, 2025
U.S. military police detain civilian in Okinawa by mistake
The Japan-U.S. Status of Forces Agreement does not allow U.S. military police to detain civilians outside U.S. bases.
A suicide note left by international politics scholar Kei Wakaizumi is currently on display at the Okinawa Prefectural Archives in the town of Haebaru, Okinawa Prefecture.
JAPAN / History
Dec 22, 2025
Secret Okinawa-reversion negotiator’s suicide note now open to public
The letter, which describes the envoy’s grief over brokering a nuclear agreement with the U.S., will be on display through Sunday.
Ground reclamation work underway in Nago in January.
JAPAN
Dec 19, 2025
Japan resumes ground work for Futenma base relocation
The ministry notified the Nago city government and other related parties of the work resumption off the coast of the city’s Henoko district after a six-month hiatus.
U.S. Marine Corps Futenma Air Station in the city of Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, in 2023
JAPAN
Dec 19, 2025
U.S. military rejects Okinawa access requests over PFAS findings
PFAS have been found in nearby rivers and other sites, raising concerns about potential effects on drinking water.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara (left) meets with Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki in Naha on Sunday.
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 1, 2025
Central government and Okinawa remain apart over U.S. base relocation
Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara visited Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki at the prefectural office in Naha in Sunday.
U.S. military personnel join Japanese officials and residents for a one-off joint nighttime patrol on the streets of the city of Okinawa in April.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 19, 2025
U.S. Navy member suspected of sex crime against Okinawa minor
The police did not disclose whether the serviceman has admitted or denied the allegations.
Members of U.S. military police patrol entertainment districts of Naha on Nov. 1.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 4, 2025
U.S. Marine held on suspicion of assaulting restaurant worker in Okinawa
The warrant officer is suspected of pressing his hand against the neck of a restaurant employee and causing abrasions on a Naha street at around 4 a.m. on Monday.
U.S. military police will patrol Naha in the early hours of Nov. 1 to help prevent a recurrence of sexual assault cases involving U.S. personnel, sources said Thursday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 24, 2025
U.S. military police to conduct solo patrol in Naha, seeking to prevent assaults
The solo patrol is believed to be the first to be conducted by the military police in downtown Naha, which is not near U.S. bases.
A rally held on Oct. 21, 1995, to protest the sexual assault of a young girl by U.S. military personnel, in the city of Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture
JAPAN
Oct 21, 2025
Okinawa marks 30 years since major rally over U.S. Marines assaulting a girl
On Sept. 4, 1995, three U.S. Marines abducted and sexually assaulted an elementary school girl on Okinawa’s main island, sparking a protest that drew 85,000 participants.
U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS George Washington during a trilateral exercise including the United States, Japan and South Korea in the East China Sea in November last year
JAPAN
Oct 11, 2025
Japan and U.S. leaders may tour U.S. aircraft carrier
According to sources, the two sides plan to have their leaders visit the Yokosuka base during U.S. President Donald Trump’s upcoming trip to the Asian nation later this month.
Afghan soldiers stand guard at the gate of Bagram Air Base, Parwan province, Afghanistan, on July 2, 2021, the day the last American troops vacated the facility.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 3, 2025
Will Trump strike Afghanistan over Bagram Air Base?
For Afghans, the cost of another military conflict with the U.S. would be ruinous.
Suzu Hirose (left), Satoshi Tsumabuki (center) and Masataka Kubota (right) play childhood friends caught up in the simmering tensions of postwar Okinawa in Keishi Otomo’s “Hero’s Island.”
CULTURE / Film
Sep 25, 2025
‘Hero’s Island’: Okinawa-set epic is lavishly realized but lacks bite
Keishi Otomo recreates postwar turmoil in rich detail that is sometimes more vivid than the characters themselves.
A U.S. Air Force serviceman in Okinawa Prefecture has appealed to the Supreme Court against a high court ruling that upheld a five-year sentence for abducting and sexually assaulting a girl under the age of 16 in the prefecture, it was revealed on Friday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 12, 2025
U.S. airman appeals to top court in Okinawa assault case
Brennon Washington filed the appeal Wednesday after receiving the ruling by the Fukuoka High Court’s branch in Naha that day.
The U.S. Air Force's Kadena Air Base in Kadena, Okinawa Prefecture. Brennon Washington, who was stationed at the base, was handed a five-year prison sentence over the kidnap and sexual assault of a girl under the age of consent.
JAPAN
Sep 10, 2025
Five-year term upheld for U.S. airman over Okinawa sexual assault
A judge rejected the defense’s appeal and upheld the Naha District Court’s ruling in the trial of 26-year-old Brennon Washington.
A building slated for demolition that was once a clinic for sex workers hired to serve U.S. soldiers protecting Seoul from North Korea
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Sep 10, 2025
South Korean women target U.S. military in landmark forced prostitution lawsuit
Historians and activists say tens of thousands of South Korean women worked for state-sanctioned brothels from the 1950s to 1980s, serving U.S. troops stationed in the country.
U.S. President Donald Trump visits the USS Wasp aircraft carrier in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, in May 2019 during his first term as president. Trump is expected to demand that Japan boost its host-nation support spending for U.S. military when the current plan expires in March 2027.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Sep 7, 2025
Japan braces for Trump push on U.S. troop funding
The financial support covers the salaries of workers at U.S. military bases, utilities costs and facility maintenance expenses.
U.S. military personnel join Japanese officials and residents for a one-off joint nighttime patrol on the streets of the city of Okinawa in April, following sexual assault cases involving U.S. service members.
JAPAN
Sep 5, 2025
Pentagon begins probe of crimes involving U.S. troops in Japan
The review will “examine the performance, training and criminal history of service members who committed violent crimes against Japanese nationals,” according to a Pentagon memo.
Members of the Ground Self-Defense Force and the U.S. Marine Corps conduct a joint military drill on Irisuna Island in Okinawa Prefecture in November 2023.
JAPAN
Sep 3, 2025
U.S. deploys cutting-edge missile system in Okinawa
Mounted on an unmanned vehicle, the remote-control missile system can swiftly be positioned along the coastline to attack enemy ships.
Takemasa Kinjo, who was a high school student when his mother was killed by a U.S. Marine in 1974, looks on at the construction site of the new Henoko military base for U.S. forces near his residence in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, in June.
JAPAN / Society / FOCUS
Aug 25, 2025
Decades after WWII, Okinawa is a reluctant host for U.S. troops
A string of incidents over the years involving American troops and base personnel, including sexual assault cases, have angered residents.
The U.S. military's Marine Air Defense Integrated System is expected to be deployed in Ishigaki, Okinawa Prefecture.
JAPAN
Aug 21, 2025
New air defense system to be used in upcoming U.S.-Japan drill
The U.S. military’s Marine Air Defense Integrated System is expected to be deployed in Ishigaki, Okinawa Prefecture.
Japan triples departure tax in push to combat overtourism
Tourists in Yanaka Ginza, Tokyo, on Wednesday. Japan tripled its International Tourist Tax (departure tax) to ¥3,000 from ¥1,000 on Wednesday for all travelers leaving Japan, regardless of nationality.
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A sanitary bin with an awareness sticker placed in a men's restroom in the Nagasaki Municipal Government building
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James Benstead, his wife, Jesse, and their three children. Their adopted son is in the rear stroller.
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A man orders from a kebab shop in the Okubo district in Tokyo.
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