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Anti-base protesters took to canoes and boats on Dec. 14 in waters off Okinawa to show their opposition to the planned relocation of a U.S. air base, exactly three years after full-blown offshore landfill work for the transfer began.

Anti-base protesters took to canoes and boats Tuesday in waters off Okinawa to show their opposition to the planned relocation of a U.S. air base, exactly three years after full-blown offshore landfill work for the transfer began. Holding signs that read &quot&#x3B;Stop landfilling&#x2...

A court battle between the central and the Okinawa governments is likely to start if the prefecture's rejection of the design change application is invalidated.

Another legal battle appears to be shaping up between Tokyo and Naha after the Defense Ministry took steps to counter Okinawa Prefecture’s recent rejection of a central government application for design changes to its blueprint to relocate a U.S. military base there.

The Diet convened for a 16-day extraordinary session Dec. 6, setting the stage for the first full-blown debate since Prime Minister Fumio Kishida won a public mandate in the Oct. 31 Lower House election.

Government officials have suggested that the real reason behind the cut is related to the prefectural government's stiff opposition to relocating a key U.S. air base within the prefecture.

The Japanese government has decided to allocate less than 300 billion yen ($2.7 billion) for Okinawas economic development for the first time in 10 years in fiscal 2022, an official familiar with the matter said on Dec. 4, as confrontation over a U.S. military base intensifies between them.

The U.S. Army has managed to exceed its recruitment targets this year despite the pandemic, concerns about politicization, and ...

The central government was aware of the weak seabed at the planned Futenma relocation site in 2015, three years before work got underway.

The Japanese government was aware that a portion of the seabed at the planned relocation site for a U.S. military base in Okinawa, southern Japan, was weak in 2015, three years before controversial landfill work got under way there, official documents showed on Nov. 27.