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Japan-U.S. Iron Fist joint exercise in Okinawa

Japan Self-Defense Forces and U.S. military personnel salute during the opening ceremony of their Iron Fist joint exercise at U.S. Marine Corps' Camp Hansen in the southern Japan island prefecture of Okinawa on Feb. 23, 2026.

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Japan-U.S. Iron Fist joint exercise in Okinawa

Japan Self-Defense Forces and U.S. military personnel pose for a group photo after the opening ceremony of their Iron Fist joint exercise at U.S. Marine Corps' Camp Hansen in the southern Japan island prefecture of Okinawa on Feb. 23, 2026.

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Okinawa peace march

People march near U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in the Okinawa Prefecture city of Ginowan, southern Japan, on May 17, 2025, during a peace march calling for the burden on Okinawa from hosting U.S. forces to be reduced, two days after the 53rd anniversary of its reversion to Japan. Okinawa hosts about 70 percent of U.S. forces in Japan.

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Okinawa peace march

People march near U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in the Okinawa Prefecture city of Ginowan, southern Japan, on May 17, 2025, during a peace march calling for the burden on Okinawa from hosting U.S. forces to be reduced, two days after the 53rd anniversary of its reversion to Japan. Okinawa hosts about 70 percent of U.S. forces in Japan.

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Okinawa peace march

People march near U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in the Okinawa Prefecture city of Ginowan, southern Japan, on May 17, 2025, during a peace march calling for the burden on Okinawa from hosting U.S. forces to be reduced, two days after the 53rd anniversary of its reversion to Japan. Okinawa hosts about 70 percent of U.S. forces in Japan.

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Okinawa peace march

People march near U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in the Okinawa Prefecture city of Ginowan, southern Japan, on May 17, 2025, during a peace march calling for the burden on Okinawa from hosting U.S. forces to be reduced, two days after the 53rd anniversary of its reversion to Japan. Okinawa hosts about 70 percent of U.S. forces in Japan.

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Okinawa peace march

People march near U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in the Okinawa Prefecture city of Ginowan, southern Japan, on May 17, 2025, during a peace march calling for the burden on Okinawa from hosting U.S. forces to be reduced, two days after the 53rd anniversary of its reversion to Japan. Okinawa hosts about 70 percent of U.S. forces in Japan.

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Okinawa peace march

People stage a rally in the Okinawa Prefecture city of Ginowan, southern Japan, on May 18, 2024, following a peace march calling for reducing the burden on Okinawa from hosting U.S. forces, three days after the 52nd anniversary of its reversion to Japan. Okinawa hosts about 70 percent of U.S. forces in Japan, including U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan.

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Okinawa peace march

Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki addresses a rally in the Okinawa Prefecture city of Ginowan, southern Japan, on May 18, 2024, following a peace march calling for reducing the burden on Okinawa from hosting U.S. forces, three days after the 52nd anniversary of its reversion to Japan. Okinawa hosts about 70 percent of U.S. forces in Japan, including U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan.

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Okinawa peace march

People stage a rally in the Okinawa Prefecture city of Ginowan, southern Japan, on May 18, 2024, following a peace march calling for reducing the burden on Okinawa from hosting U.S. forces, three days after the 52nd anniversary of its reversion to Japan. Okinawa hosts about 70 percent of U.S. forces in Japan, including U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan.

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Okinawa peace march

People march near U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in the Okinawa Prefecture city of Ginowan, southern Japan, on May 18, 2024, during a peace march calling for the burden on Okinawa from hosting U.S. forces to be reduced, three days after the 52nd anniversary of its reversion to Japan. Okinawa hosts about 70 percent of U.S. forces in Japan.

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Okinawa peace march

People march in front of U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in the Okinawa Prefecture city of Ginowan, southern Japan, on May 18, 2024, during a peace march calling for the burden on Okinawa from hosting U.S. forces to be reduced, three days after the 52nd anniversary of its reversion to Japan. Okinawa hosts about 70 percent of U.S. forces in Japan.

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Okinawa peace march

People march in front of U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in the Okinawa Prefecture city of Ginowan, southern Japan, on May 18, 2024, during a peace march calling for the burden on Okinawa from hosting U.S. forces to be reduced, three days after the 52nd anniversary of its reversion to Japan. Okinawa hosts about 70 percent of U.S. forces in Japan.

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Okinawa peace march

People march near U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in the Okinawa Prefecture city of Ginowan, southern Japan, on May 18, 2024, during a peace march calling for the burden on Okinawa from hosting U.S. forces to be reduced, three days after the 52nd anniversary of its reversion to Japan. Okinawa hosts about 70 percent of U.S. forces in Japan.

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[Breaking News]U.S. forces resume Osprey flights in Japan

GINOWAN, Japan, March 14 Kyodo - A U.S. military MV-22 Osprey aircraft flies after taking off from U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in the southern Japan prefecture of Okinawa on March 14, 2024. The resumption of flights in Japan for the tilt-rotor aircraft came after Washington lifted a worldwide flight ban on U.S. Ospreys following a crash last November off a southwestern Japan island. (Kyodo)

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U.S. forces resume Osprey flights in Japan

A U.S. military MV-22 Osprey aircraft (front) moves to a runway to take off at U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in the southern Japan prefecture of Okinawa on March 14, 2024. Flights in Japan for the tilt-rotor aircraft resumed the same day after Washington lifted a worldwide flight ban on U.S. Ospreys following a crash last November off a southwestern Japan island.

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U.S. forces resume Osprey flights in Japan

A U.S. military MV-22 Osprey aircraft flies near U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in the southern Japan prefecture of Okinawa on March 14, 2024. Flights in Japan for the tilt-rotor aircraft resumed the same day after Washington lifted a worldwide flight ban on U.S. Ospreys following a crash last November off a southwestern Japan island.

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U.S. forces resume Osprey flights in Japan

A U.S. military MV-22 Osprey aircraft flies near U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in the southern Japan prefecture of Okinawa on March 14, 2024. Flights in Japan for the tilt-rotor aircraft resumed the same day after Washington lifted a worldwide flight ban on U.S. Ospreys following a crash last November off a southwestern Japan island.

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U.S. forces resume Osprey flights in Japan

A U.S. military MV-22 Osprey aircraft flies after taking off from U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in the southern Japan prefecture of Okinawa on March 14, 2024. The resumption of flights in Japan for the tilt-rotor aircraft came after Washington lifted a worldwide flight ban on U.S. Ospreys following a crash last November off a southwestern Japan island.

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U.S. forces resume Osprey flights in Japan

A U.S. military MV-22 Osprey aircraft flies after taking off from U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in the southern Japan prefecture of Okinawa on March 14, 2024. The resumption of flights in Japan for the tilt-rotor aircraft came after Washington lifted a worldwide flight ban on U.S. Ospreys following a crash last November off a southwestern Japan island.

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U.S. forces resume Osprey flights in Japan

A U.S. military MV-22 Osprey aircraft flies after taking off from U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in the southern Japan prefecture of Okinawa on March 14, 2024. The resumption of flights in Japan for the tilt-rotor aircraft came after Washington lifted a worldwide flight ban on U.S. Ospreys following a crash last November off a southwestern Japan island.

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GSDF Osprey aircraft in Okinawa

ISHIGAKI, Japan Kyodo - A drill for transporting injured personnel is carried out using a Japan Ground Self-Defense Force V-22 Osprey tilt-rot　or aircraft at Ishigaki airport on Ishigaki Island in the southern Japan prefecture of Okinawa on Oct. 24, 2023, as part of a joint exercise between the GSDF and the U.S. Marine Corps. (Kyodo)

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Prime Minister Abe attends air review ceremony

OMITAMA, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R in front) inspects a MV-22 Osprey aircraft of the U.S. Marine Corps during an annual air review at Japan's Self-Defense Force's Hyakuri Air Base in the city of Omitama, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Oct. 26, 2014. The ceremony was held to mark the 60th anniversary of the launch of Japan's Self-Defense Forces.

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Japan's defense minister meets U.S. Marine commander

TOKYO, Japan - Lt. Gen. Terry Robling (L), commander of U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Pacific, shakes hands with Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera at the Ministry of Defense in Tokyo on June 30, 2014.

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U.S. base in Okinawa raises environmental concerns

NAHA, Japan - A blue sheet covers an area in the U.S. Marine Corps' Camp Foster in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, on March 13, 2014, after a local government found a dozen metal drums, suspected to have been abandoned by U.S. forces, at the site.

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Top Marine in Okinawa

NAHA, Japan - The commanding general of U.S. Marine forces in Okinawa, Lt. Gen. John Wissler (L), and Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima meet at the prefectural hall in Naha on Sept. 17, 2013. Wissler told the governor that MV-22 Osprey aircraft stationed at the Marines' Futenma Air Station in the prefecture could be dispatched to the disputed Senkaku Islands if needed.

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Japan, U.S. to hold joint antidisaster drill

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera (L) holds talks with Lt. Gen. Kenneth Glueck Jr. (R) of the U.S. Marine Corps, at the ministry in Tokyo on July 5, 2013. The two agreed to hold a joint antidisaster drill between Japan's Self-Defense Forces and U.S. forces in Japan as early as the fall 2013.

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Joint landing drill

PENDLETON, United States - U.S. Marines alight from an air cushion landing craft on a beach during a joint exercise in southern California on June 24, 2013. The U.S. Navy and the U.S. Marine Corps conducted the joint landing drill with Japan's Self-Defense Forces and Canadian and New Zealand forces as part of the Dawn Blitz 2013 exercises.

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Joint landing drill

PENDLETON, United States - Air cushion landing craft of U.S. forces land on a beach during a joint exercise in southern California on June 24, 2013. The U.S. Navy and the U.S. Marine Corps conducted the joint landing drill with Japan's Self-Defense Forces and Canadian and New Zealand forces as part of the Dawn Blitz 2013 exercises.

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Joint landing drill

PENDLETON, United States - U.S. Marines alight from an air cushion landing craft on a beach during a joint exercise in southern California on June 24, 2013. The U.S. Navy and the U.S. Marine Corps conducted the joint landing drill with Japan's Self-Defense Forces and Canadian and New Zealand forces as part of the Dawn Blitz 2013 exercises.

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Joint landing drill

PENDLETON, United States - Vehicles of Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force alight from an air cushion landing craft (front) of Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force during a joint exercise on a beach in southern California on June 24, 2013. Seen at back is an air cushion landing craft of the U.S. Navy. The U.S. Navy and the U.S. Marine Corps conducted the joint landing drill with Japan's Self-Defense Forces and Canadian and New Zealand forces as part of the Dawn Blitz 2013 exercises.

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Joint landing drill

PENDLETON, United States - An air cushion landing craft (L) of Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force lands on a beach during a joint exercise in southern California on June 24, 2013. Seen in front is an air cushion landing craft of the U.S. Navy. The U.S. Navy and the U.S. Marine Corps conducted the joint landing drill with Japan's Self-Defense Forces and Canadian and New Zealand forces as part of the Dawn Blitz 2013 exercises.

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Joint landing drill

PENDLETON, United States - Vehicles of Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force alight from an air cushion landing craft of Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force during a joint exercise on a beach in southern California on June 24, 2013. The U.S. Navy and the U.S. Marine Corps conducted the joint landing drill with Japan's Self-Defense Forces and Canadian and New Zealand forces as part of the Dawn Blitz 2013 exercises.

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Joint landing drill

PENDLETON, United States - Air cushion landing craft of Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force (front) and the U.S. Navy (back) land on a beach during a joint exercise in southern California on June 24, 2013. The U.S. Navy and the U.S. Marine Corps conducted the joint landing drill with Japan's Self-Defense Forces and Canadian and New Zealand forces as part of the Dawn Blitz 2013 exercises.

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Joint landing drill

PENDLETON, United States - An air cushion landing craft of Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force lands on a beach during a joint exercise in southern California on June 24, 2013. The U.S. Navy and the U.S. Marine Corps conducted the joint landing drill with Japan's Self-Defense Forces and Canadian and New Zealand forces as part of the Dawn Blitz 2013 exercises.

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U.S.-Japan drill

SAN DIEGO, United States - Members of the U.S. Marine Corps and Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force conduct a live-fire drill on San Clemente Island off San Diego, California, on June 20, 2013. The U.S. forces and Japan's Self-Defense Forces were jointly training for the recapture of remote islands.

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U.S.-Japan drill

SAN DIEGO, United States - Members of the U.S. Marine Corps and Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force conduct a live-fire drill on San Clemente Island off San Diego, California, on June 20, 2013. The U.S. forces and Japan's Self-Defense Forces were jointly training for the recapture of remote islands.

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Osprey lands on Japan destroyer

SAN DIEGO, United States - An MV-22 Osprey of the U.S. Marine Corps parks up in a hangar on the Japanese helicopter destroyer Hyuga after landing on the vessel during a joint exercise involving the U.S. military and Japan's Self-Defense Forces in the Pacific off San Diego, California, on June 14, 2013. The tilt-rotor aircraft earlier became the first of its kind to land on a Japanese ship.

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Osprey lands on Japan destroyer

SAN DIEGO, United States - An MV-22 Osprey of the U.S. Marine Corps parks up in a hangar on the Japanese helicopter destroyer Hyuga after landing on the vessel during a joint exercise involving the U.S. military and Japan's Self-Defense Forces in the Pacific off San Diego, California, on June 14, 2013. The tilt-rotor aircraft earlier became the first of its kind to land on a Japanese ship.

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Osprey lands on Japan destroyer

SAN DIEGO, United States - An MV-22 Osprey of the U.S. Marine Corps parks up in a hangar on the Japanese helicopter destroyer Hyuga after landing on the vessel during a joint exercise involving the U.S. military and Japan's Self-Defense Forces in the Pacific off San Diego, California, on June 14, 2013. The tilt-rotor aircraft earlier became the first of its kind to land on a Japanese ship.

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Osprey lands on Japan destroyer

SAN DIEGO, United States - An MV-22 Osprey of the U.S. Marine Corps takes off from the Japanese helicopter destroyer Hyuga during a joint exercise involving the U.S. military and Japan's Self-Defense Forces in the Pacific off San Diego, California, on June 14, 2013. The tilt-rotor aircraft earlier became the first of its kind to land on a Japanese ship.

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MV-22 Osprey lands on Japanese destroyer for 1st time

SAN DIEGO, United States - Photo shows an MV-22 Osprey taking off from the Japanese helicopter destroyer Hyuga in waters off San Diego, California, on June 14, 2013, during a joint exercise involving the U.S. military and Japan's Self-Defense Forces. The U.S. Marine Corps landed the tilt-rotor aircraft on the Hyuga the same day, the first landing of an Osprey on a Japanese vessel.

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MV-22 Osprey lands on Japanese destroyer for 1st time

SAN DIEGO, United States - U.S. military and Japanese Ground, Maritime and Air Self-Defense Forces officers meet on the Japanese helicopter destroyer Hyuga off San Diego, California, on June 14, 2013. The U.S. Marine Corps landed an MV-22 Osprey on the Hyuga the same day, the first landing of the tilt-rotor aircraft on a Japanese vessel, during a joint exercise involving the U.S. military and Japan's Self-Defense Forces.

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Osprey lands on Japan destroyer

SAN DIEGO, United States - An MV-22 Osprey of the U.S. Marine Corps descends into a hangar on the Japanese helicopter destroyer Hyuga after landing on the vessel during a joint exercise involving the U.S. military and Japan's Self-Defense Forces in the Pacific off San Diego, California, on June 14, 2013. The tilt-rotor aircraft earlier became the first of its kind to land on a Japanese ship.

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Osprey lands on Japan destroyer

SAN DIEGO, United States - An MV-22 Osprey of the U.S. Marine Corps is seen on the Japanese helicopter destroyer Hyuga after landing on the vessel during a joint exercise involving the U.S. military and Japan's Self-Defense Forces in the Pacific off San Diego, California, on June 14, 2013. The tilt-rotor aircraft earlier became the first of its kind to land on a Japanese ship.

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Osprey lands on Japan destroyer

SAN DIEGO, United States - An MV-22 Osprey of the U.S. Marine Corps lands on the Japanese helicopter destroyer Hyuga during a joint exercise involving the U.S. military and Japan's Self-Defense Forces in the Pacific off San Diego, California, on June 14, 2013. It was the first landing by the tilt-rotor aircraft on a Japanese ship.

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Osprey in Okinawa

NAHA, Japan - U.S. Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft is shown to a news crew at the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, on March 3, 2013, prior to the U.S. forces showing the aircraft to Okinawa residents. The U.S. forces invited around 300 residents to the air base to see the aircraft.

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Okinawa urges discipline by U.S. military

NAHA, Japan - Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima (R) and Alfred Magleby, the new U.S. consul general in the prefecture, meet at the Okinawa prefectural hall in Naha on Aug. 20, 2012. The governor expressed his strong discontent over a U.S. Marine's recent alleged assault of a local woman, and urged discipline within the U.S. military forces.

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Japan, U.S. to move 9,000 Marines out of Okinawa

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in July 2010 shows the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture. The foreign and defense ministers of Japan and the United States released on April 27, 2012, a joint statement on the realignment of U.S. forces in Japan, saying that nearly half of the 19,000 U.S. Marines stationed in Okinawa will be transferred to Guam and elsewhere.

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Finegayan area on Guam

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in March 2008 shows part of Guam's Finegayan area, a housing site for U.S. military personnel and their families where related facilities are to be built, as U.S. Marine Corps troops in Okinawa, Japan, are to be relocated to Guam as part of a planned realignment of U.S. forces in Japan.