Last Updated: Thursday, May 9, 2013, 08:40
The row over the islands, which are presently controlled by Japan, has left ties between Tokyo and Beijing highly tense.
Last Updated: Friday, April 5, 2013, 12:24
Japan and the United States have agreed on a plan that will see some land occupied by the US military returned to the islands, reports said.
Last Updated: Friday, December 28, 2012, 19:12
US Marines in Japan are also banned from drinking outside their bases as drunken soldiers have conducted more offences that provoked residents` anger.
Last Updated: Saturday, December 22, 2012, 15:45
Okinawa is about as far away as one can get from Fukushima without leaving Japan, and that is why Minaho Kubota is here.
Last Updated: Friday, December 21, 2012, 16:22
The US House of Representatives has passed a key defence spending bill for fiscal 2013.
Last Updated: Saturday, December 15, 2012, 14:12
Japan started pulling out ballistic missile interceptors from Okinawa that it had deployed to defend against the possibility of parts of a North Korean rocket falling onto its territory.
Last Updated: Friday, December 14, 2012, 13:07
A US Marine has been sentenced to four years in prison for molesting and assaulting a woman in Japan’s Okinawa Prefecture in August.
Last Updated: Friday, April 27, 2012, 08:31
The move is part of a broader arrangement designed to tamp down tensions in the US-Japan defence alliance.
Last Updated: Thursday, February 9, 2012, 14:18
Japanese officials and media reported, however, that only 4,700 of the Marines would end up in Guam.
Last Updated: Tuesday, February 7, 2012, 12:08
The United States and Japan are hoping to break a stalemate over the US military presence on Okinawa.
Last Updated: Sunday, February 5, 2012, 14:08
The United States and Japan have agreed to tweak a six-year-old agreement on Marines based on the southern island of Okinawa.
Last Updated: Tuesday, November 8, 2011, 15:22
Japan, located at the junction of four tectonic plates, experiences 20 % of the strongest quakes each year.
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