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1 week ago | 
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Construction vessels float on Oura Bay at the site of a future U.S. Marine Corps airfield at Camp Schwab, Okinawa, April 16, 2025. (Brian McElhiney/Stars and Stripes) A construction vessel spilled fuel oil Thursday morning at the site of a future U.S. Marine Corps airfield in northern Okinawa, marking the fourth such incident this year, according to Japan’s coast guard.
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1 week ago | 
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U.S. Army Col. Jin W. Park, chief of U.S. Forces Japan’s Okinawa Area Field Office, greets Masahito Tamari, director general of the Okinawa governor’s office, during the first community partnership forum at Camp Foster, Okinawa, May 9, 2025.
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2 weeks ago | 
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Okinawa Vice Gov. Takekuni Ikeda, right, reads a protest letter to Ambassador Manabu Miyagawa, of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Okinawa Liaison Office, at the prefecture’s office in Naha, May 2, 2025.
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2 weeks ago | 
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Camp Foster is home to Marine Corps Installations Pacific on Okinawa. (Keishi Koja/Stars and Stripes) NAHA CITY, Okinawa — Japanese prosecutors have indicted a U.S. Marine on charges of sexually assaulting a Japanese woman and injuring another in a restroom on a Marine Corps base in March. Pfc. Austin R.
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3 weeks ago | 
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MV-22B Ospreys prepare to land at Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, Okinawa, Feb. 26, 2025. (Tyler Andrews/U.S. Marine Corps) A Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey made a precautionary landing Thursday afternoon at a commercial airport on an island north of Okinawa following an onboard warning, according to the service and Japanese officials.
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3 weeks ago | 
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The Okinawa Prefectural Police headquarters in Naha city, Okinawa, is pictured on April 24, 2025. (Keishi Koja/Stars and Stripes) CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — Two U.S. Marines have been accused of sexually assaulting women in separate incidents on Okinawa earlier this year, according to Japanese police — the latest in a string of similar cases stirring public discontent on the island.
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3 weeks ago | 
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Bones of more than 20 people, along with a helmet, water bottle and other items believed to be from World War II, were found on Ie Shima, Okinawa, in August 2024. (Ie Village, Okinawa) A landscaper working on a historical film about the Battle of Okinawa uncovered human remains last summer on Ie Shima, marking the first such discovery on the island in more than 20 years, according to Japanese officials.
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4 weeks ago | 
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This T-shirt was discovered near human skeletal remains found on Camp Schwab, Okinawa, on March 21, 2024. (Okinawa Prefectural Police) Human bones discovered more than a year ago at a Marine Corps base on Okinawa belong to a local man who went missing in 2018, according to Japanese police.
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4 weeks ago | 
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An F-15E Strike Eagle taxis down the runway after arriving at Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, on April 6, 2025. (Karina Lopez/U.S. Air Force) An F-15E Strike Eagle deployed to Kadena Air Base on Okinawa lost a tire while taxiing on the runway Thursday, according to the 18th Wing. The multirole fighter was conducting a taxi check when it experienced a “tire malfunction,” wing spokeswoman Maj. Alli Stormer said in an email Friday.
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1 month ago | 
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Japan's Ministry of Defense plans to relocate its Osprey fleet to a new camp on Kyushu island by August 2025. (Japan Ground Self-Defense Force) Japan’s fleet of V-22 Ospreys will move this summer to a permanent base on Kyushu, keeping to a schedule the Ministry of Defense announced two years ago, according to Defense Minister Gen Nakatani.
