US military bases in Japan

Also in the cross hairs is Manbij, a town jointly patrolled by U.S- and Kurdish forces and where U.S. bases are housed, triggering concerns over potential friction with U.S. troops. Erdogan even threatened to target Iraq's Sinjar mountains, used by Kurdish fighters to move between Iraq and Syria, and which ...

Last year, people gathered daily in front of Naha District Court in Okinawa, Japan, to protest the detention of anti-U.S. base protest leader Hiroji Yamashiro. ... a half years with hard labor, suggesting that Yamashiro's actions went beyond the freedom of expression guaranteed by the Japanese constitution.

Kazuo Senaga, 54, secretary-general of an organization that opposes U.S. bases in Okinawa, said, "The judiciary, which ignores the voices of people who are against the relocation and just goes along with the central government, is losing its independence," adding, "Let's continue to fight." Moreover, about ...

Federal prosecutors, for example, pursued roughly one in seven juvenile sex offense cases that military investigators presented, according to AP's review of about 100 investigative files from Navy and Marine Corps bases. In one unprosecuted case from Japan, witnesses confirmed that a 17-year-old boy ...

The sea off the Henoko district of the Okinawa Prefecture city of Nago, where U.S. military base relocation work is underway, is pictured in this photo taken from a Mainichi Shimbun aircraft on Oct. 12, 2017. (Mainichi). NAHA, Japan (Kyodo) -- A Japanese court rejected on Tuesday the Okinawa prefectural ...

“Iraq's sovereignty is our red line,” the Iraqi Foreign Minister said, pointing to American military bases in “South Korea, Turkey, Japan, and other countries which violated those countries' sovereignty.” Jaafari visited Russia to meet with officials and seek assistance regarding the security of Iraq post-IS, with some reports ...

... presence in its territory. “Iraq's sovereignty is our red line,” the Iraqi foreign minister said. He pointed to the presence of permanent US military bases in “South Korea, Turkey, Japan, and many other world countries” long after the end of World War II and said the bases violated those countries' sovereignty.

The commander of a US air base in northern Japan has apologized to a local municipality for the release of fuel tanks from a fighter jet into a lake last week. Colonel R. Scott Jobe visited the town of Tohoku in Aomori Prefecture on Monday to speak with Mayor Koji Ebina. They discussed the jettisoning of 2 ...

Japanese Fighter Jets Intercept Nuclear-Capable Russian Bombers Near US Base ... The Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) scrambled fighter jets to intercept two Russian Air Force nuclear-capable Tupolev Tu-95MS strategic bombers on February 20, the Japanese Ministry of Defense (MoD) ...

In Hatoyama's view, Japan instead should work with South Korea and China to convince the United States and North Korea to begin talks toward a peace .... about the strategic importance of the proposed new US base in Henoko; it supposedly claimed that all US bases had to be within 60 nautical miles of ...

Federal prosecutors, for example, pursued roughly 1 in 7 juvenile sex offense cases that military investigators presented, according to AP's review of about 100 investigative files from Navy and Marine Corps bases. In one unprosecuted case from Japan, witnesses confirmed that a 17-year-old boy pulled a ...

Federal prosecutors, for example, pursued roughly 1 in 7 juvenile sex offense cases that military investigators presented, according to AP's review of about 100 investigative files from Navy and Marine Corps bases. In one unprosecuted case from Japan, witnesses confirmed that a 17-year-old boy pulled a ...