air base in Ginowan around 6: 45 p.m. Tuesday, adding they will investigate to discover exactly what

acid( PFOA) kept at their Air Station Futenma base in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, directly into the

Ginowan in Okinawa, is spelled out in a bilateral agreement between Japan and the United States....

Denny Tamaki is seen criticizing the U.S. response over potentially toxic water releases, at an emergency press conference at the Okinawa Prefectural Government building in Naha on Aug.... The U.S. Marine Corps notified the prefectural government of the release in an email at 9: 05 a.m.on Aug.... The email also explained that the chemical amounts set for disposal were below the Japanese government-set provisional target values including for tap water, but it didn't specify exactly how much wou

27, 2018, in this photo taken from a Mainichi aircraft.... The U.S. Marine Corps said the incident occurred at about 12: 30 p.m.on July 13.... According to Japan's Okinawa Defense Bureau and the Okinawa Prefectural Government, the container measured around 2 meters in width and 2.5 meters in length and height....

In fiscal 2020, Japan Self-Defense Forces( SDF) personnel were sent out to dispose of unexploded World War II ordnance 650 times.... And yet there are an estimated 1, 900 metric tons of unexploded shells still out there.... The deadly inheritance of that fierce and terrible battle all those decades ago continues to lurk beneath the island's surface....

In this photo taken in May 1945, the defensive walls behind Shuri Castle moat are reduced to rubble and surrounding trees battered after the castle was taken by U.S. forces.... Answer: The U.S. military first reached the Kerama islands, west of the main island of Okinawa, on March 26, 1945.... There was little resistance from the Imperial Japanese military....

Denny Tamaki attends an Okinawa prefectural assembly meeting on Nov.... Denny Tamaki said Thursday he will not approve the central government's planned design change for the relocation of a key U.S. military base within the southern island prefecture, a decision that could lead to a legal battle.... The central government is expected to take immediate countermeasures, with a court fight likely to ensue....

A demonstrator in a canoe protests against land reclamation work for the planned relocation of U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, in the Henoko coastal area of Nago in Okinawa Prefecture, on Dec.... Holding signs that read" Stop landfilling operation" and" Protect our beautiful sea," protesters in around 30 canoes paddled out to the site, calling for the halt of work for the transfer of U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma to the Henoko district, both in the southern island prefecture....