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U.S. to send long-range surveillance drones to Japan amid Taiwan tensions
Defense Minister Gen Nakatani said that the drones will be sent to the U.S. air base in Kadena, on Okinawa Prefecture’s main ...
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Japan Engineer District stands up new Okinawa DLA Facility
KADENA AIR BASE, Okinawa – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers – Japan Engineer District (USACE JED) is nearing completion on a modern headquarters building designed to significantly enhance ...
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Japan retools evacuation plan for western island chain in event of emergency or attack
An updated plan recently released by the Japanese government details how and where it will move 120,000 people from the ...
Unearthing Okinawa’s forgotten war dead
Takamatsu Gushiken leaves a cave after a session of searching for the remains of those who died during the Battle of Okinawa ...
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US to deploy large surveillance drones to Japan's Okinawa, bolstering defences near Taiwan
The US military will deploy long-range surveillance drones in the Japanese region of Okinawa near Taiwan, Tokyo’s defence minister said today. The ...
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Okinawa: 80th anniversary of the bloody final invasion of the Pacific War
Eighty years ago, on April 1, a Sunday in 1945, seven troop divisions, four Army, three Marine, landed on the beaches of ...
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80 years after World War II, Okinawa’s battle sites are still giving up bones and bombs
No place on Okinawa brings that tragedy home more than the Himeyuri Peace Museum, which tells the story of the Himeyuri Student Corps, teenage girls pressed into service of the Japanese military ...