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Japanese officials say an explosion at a storage site for unexploded ordnance at a U.S. military base on Japan’s southern island of Okinawa injured four Japanese soldiers.

The U.S. military community in western Tokyo gathered at Yokota Air Base for the annual Celebrate America festival to ring in ...

The Japanese archipelago of Okinawa on Monday commemorated the 80th anniversary of one of the bloodiest battles of World War ...

Japan has cancelled an annual security meeting with the US after the Donald Trump administration told the country it had to spend more on defence. US secretary of state Marco Rubio and defence ...

Thousands protest the U.S. military on Japanese island of Okinawa 01:20. Two U.S. Marines in Okinawa, Japan, are under investigation for alleged rapes, police said Thursday, the latest in a string ...

The United States has hundreds of military bases around the world, and that didn't happen all at once. ... As of 2025, the U.S. operates 23 major military bases in Japan, ...

U.S. service members stationed in Japan have been banned from late-night off-base bars and public drinking in the wake of several sexual assault allegations this year. (Getty Images) The head of ...

A court in Japan has sentenced a 22-year-old US marine to seven years in prison for sexually assaulting a woman in Okinawa in ...

Around 300 soldiers took part in the exercise by the Ground Self-Defence Force's 1st Artillery Brigade with a missile fired ...