The US does not intend to vacate the current airbase for now due to disagreement over runway length at a replacement site, a ...

The Japan Ground Self-Defense Force has decided to halt its training with V-22 Ospreys in the prefecture during the Iron Fist exercise.

In November 2023, a U.S. Osprey from the Yokota air base in Tokyo crashed off the island of Yakushima, Kagoshima Prefecture, ...

While the runway at the Futenma base in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, is roughly 2,700 meters long, the two runways at the replacement facility will be about 1,800 meters each.

The U.S. Department of Defense has said that it would not return the site of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma air base in Okinawa Prefecture to the Japanese side unless a long runway is secured at a ...

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The Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force has decided to cancel the dispatch of a V-22 Osprey transport aircraft to the Iron Fist joint exercise with the U.S. Marine Corps in Okinawa Prefecture, Jiji ...