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U.S. military aircraft Osprey in Okinawa

A U.S. military Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft takes off from U.S. military port facilities in Naha in Okinawa Prefecture to U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan in the southern Japan island prefecture on March 20, 2023.

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U.S. Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey in Okinawa

File photo taken March 20, 2023, shows a U.S. Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft parked at U.S. military port facilities in Naha in Okinawa Prefecture, southern Japan.

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U.S. military aircraft Osprey in Okinawa

A U.S. military Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft takes off from U.S. military port facilities in Naha in Okinawa Prefecture to U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan in the southern Japan island prefecture on March 20, 2023.

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Urasoe mayor accepts transfer of U.S. military port facilities from Naha

NAHA, Japan, April 27 Kyodo - Mayor Tetsuji Matsumoto of Urasoe, Okinawa Prefecture, southwestern Japan, holds a press conference at the municipal government office on April 20, 2015, to announce his decision to accept the transfer of U.S. military port facilities from the prefectural capital of Naha. Matsumoto won a mayoral election in February 2013 on a pledge to oppose the transfer.

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Japan preps for N. Korea rocket launch

NAHA, Japan - A Patriot Advanced Capability-3 missile interceptor is unloaded from the military transport ship Osumi at Nakagusukuwan port in the city of Okinawa on Dec. 7, 2012. Japan stepped up preparations the same day for a long-range rocket North Korea has said it will launch sometime during a 13-day period from Dec. 10, ordering the destruction of the projectile should any part of it threaten to fall onto Japanese territory.

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Japan preps for N. Korea rocket launch

NAHA, Japan - A Patriot Advanced Capability-3 missile interceptor is unloaded from the military transport ship Osumi at Nakagusukuwan port in the city of Okinawa on Dec. 7, 2012. Japan stepped up preparations the same day for a long-range rocket North Korea has said it will launch sometime during a 13-day period from Dec. 10, ordering the destruction of the projectile should any part of it threaten to fall onto Japanese territory.

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Japan-China territorial row

NAHA, Japan - The Japan Coast Guard patrol ship Aso leaves a port in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, on Sept. 18, 2012, for waters near the Japan-controlled Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, which are claimed by China, where they are referred to as the Diaoyu Islands. Chinese marine surveillance ships entered the contiguous zone near the islands the same day.

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Japan to deport activists arrested over Senkaku landing

NAHA, Japan - Activists from a Hong Kong-based group seeking to assert China's claim to the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, and other people, are escorted off a Japan Coast Guard patrol vessel at a port in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, on Aug. 16, 2012. Japanese authorities are set to deport 14 people, including the activists, who were all arrested the previous day for violating Japan's immigration control law after some of them landed on one of the islands. (The image is partly altered)

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Japan to deport activists arrested over Senkaku landing

NAHA, Japan - Activists from a Hong Kong-based group seeking to assert China's claim to the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, and other people, are escorted off a Japan Coast Guard patrol vessel at a port in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, on Aug. 16, 2012. Japanese authorities are set to deport 14 people, including the activists, who were all arrested the previous day for violating Japan's immigration control law after some of them landed on one of the islands. (The image is partly altered)

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Japan to deport activists arrested over Senkaku landing

NAHA, Japan - Activists from a Hong Kong-based group seeking to assert China's claim to the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, and other people, are escorted off a Japan Coast Guard patrol vessel at a port in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, on Aug. 16, 2012. Japanese authorities are set to deport 14 people, including the activists, who were all arrested the previous day for violating Japan's immigration control law after some of them landed on one of the islands. (The image is partly altered)

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H.K. activists nabbed after landing Senkaku isle

NAHA, Japan - Five activists from a Hong Kong-based group seeking to assert China's claim to the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea are escorted to a port in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, on Aug. 16, 2012, following their arrest the previous day for landing on one of the isles. A total of 14 people were arrested by the Okinawa prefectural police and Japan Coast Guard for violating Japan's immigration control law after seven of them, including the five, landed on Uotsuri Island on Aug. 15, 2012.

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H.K. activists nabbed after landing Senkaku isle

NAHA, Japan - Five activists from a Hong Kong-based group seeking to assert China's claim to the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea are escorted to a port in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, on Aug. 16, 2012, following their arrest the previous day for landing on one of the isles. A total of 14 people were arrested by the Okinawa prefectural police and Japan Coast Guard for violating Japan's immigration control law after seven of them, including the five, landed on Uotsuri Island on Aug. 15, 2012.

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H.K. activists nabbed after landing Senkaku isle

NAHA, Japan - Five activists from a Hong Kong-based group seeking to assert China's claim to the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea are escorted to a port in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, on Aug. 16, 2012, following their arrest the previous day for landing on one of the isles. A total of 14 people were arrested by the Okinawa prefectural police and Japan Coast Guard for violating Japan's immigration control law after seven of them, including the five, landed on Uotsuri Island on Aug. 15, 2012.

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Chinese boat in collisions

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a Chinese fishing boat which collided with a Japan Coast Guard vessel near the Senkaku Islands, administered by Japan but also claimed by China and Taiwan, at Ishigaki port in Okinawa Prefecture, on Sept. 8, 2010. The Naha District Public Prosecutors Office decided on Sept. 24 to release the captain of the boat who had been detained over the incident.

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Damaged Japan Coast Guard vessel

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows the Japan Coast Guard vessel Mizuki, damaged from collisions with a Chinese fishing boat at sea near the disputed Senkaku Islands, at a port on Ishigaki Island in Okinawa Prefecture on Sept. 8, 2010. The Naha District Public Prosecutors Office decided on Sept. 24 to release the captain of the boat who had been detained over the incident.

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Citizens protest drilling survey for Futemma relocation facility

NAHA, Japan - About 300 people sit in at a fishery port in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, on Sept. 9 to protest against the government's plan to begin drilling the seabed in preparation for an offshore facility to relocate the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station.

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Police take 7 Chinese to Okinawa after landing on Senkakus

NAHA, Japan - Seven Chinese activists who were arrested on March 24 on suspicion of entering Japanese territory illegally on Uotsurijima Island, one of the disputed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, disembark from a Japan Coast Guard patrol ship at Naha Port in Okinawa Prefecture on March 25.

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N. Korean ship prevented from leaving Okinawa due to defects

NAHA, Japan - The 1,499-ton North Korean freighter Rungrado remains anchored at Nakagusuku Bay port on eastern Okinawa Island on Oct. 3, although the ship was scheduled to leave the port Oct. 1. Authorities have prevented the vessel from leaving due to defects found during an inspection by the regional bureau of the Cabinet Office.

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Taiwan ship resumes Okinawa port calls after SARS containment

NAHA, Japan - Local people perform traditional music during a welcoming ceremony at Nakagusukuwan port on Okinawa Prefecture's main island on July 7 for the 19,093-ton Superstar Gemini cruise ship from Taiwan. The ship resumed making port calls in Okinawa for the first time in about six weeks after the SARS epidemic was declared contained.

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Riot police go to Okinawa to guard U.S. bases

NAHA, Japan - Vehicles carrying the first group of riot police arrive at Naha port in Okinawa on March 28 to increase security around U.S. military bases and other U.S.-related facilities. A total of about 300 police officers from the Chubu and Kinki areas are to be deployed to Okinawa by later in the day.

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MSDF disposes of 14 unexploded shells in Naha Harbor+

NAHA, Japan, May 17 Kyodo - Members of the Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) detonate unexploded artillery shells believed to have been used by the United States during World War II off Naha port in Okinawa Prefecture on May 17. They disposed of 14 shells, found during an earlier marine probe prior to reclamation work in Naha harbor.

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9 sail boats leave Okinawa for S. Korea in int'l boat race

NAHA, Japan - Japan's sail boat Kaisei leaves a port in Naha, Okinawa, on May 11 for Incheon, South Korea, in an international sail boat race to commemorate the World Cup soccer finals to be co-hosted by Japan and South Korea. Nine sail boats from Japan, South Korea, the Netherlands, New Zealand and Russia took part in the race to Incheon.

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Gov't to remember WWII victims of battles off Kyushu

NAHA, Japan - A ship carrying about 470 bereaved family members of the victims of U.S. naval attacks during World War II near islands between Okinawa and Kagoshima prefectures leave Naha port Nov. 29, 2001. They will take part in a series of government-sponsored memorial services to mourn for people who were on some 130 ships sunk by U.S. submarines around the Ryukyu Islands.

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U.S. naval port plan backer elected mayor of Urasoe, Okinawa

NAHA, Japan - Mitsuo Gima (L), who won Sunday's Urasoe mayoral election, raises his hands with his wife Asako in a celebration at his campaign office Feb. 11. Gima, 57, a former Okinawa prefectural assembly chairman, supports a plan to relocate a U.S. naval port to Urasoe from nearby Okinawa prefectural capital Naha. He won 19,739 votes, beating incumbent Kenichi Miyagi with 18,553. Gima was supported by the Liberal Democratic Party, the New Conservative Party and the New Komeito party.

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French navy returns to Okinawa to commemorate 2 sailors

NAHA, Japan - A member of the French navy on Dec. 4 pays respects to the tombs of two French sailors who died of illness in 1846 while their ship made a port call in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, then part of the Ryukyu Kingdom. A ceremony was held the same day to honor symbolically a promise the navy made at the time to return to the kingdom to collect the sailors' remains. The event took place at the ''Oranda tombs,'' in Nago's Untembaru area, and was attended by the captain and crew of the French destroyer Vendemiaire and French Ambassador Maurice Gourdault-Montagne, as well as Nago Mayor Tateo Kishimoto and other local representatives.

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Okinawa accepts relocating U.S. port to Urasoe

Okinawa Gov. Keiichi Inamine (C) is thronged by reporters in Tokyo on Jan. 29 after expressing his intention to allow the relocation of the U.S. Army port in the prefectural capital of Naha to the neighboring city of Urasoe. In a meeting between central government and Okinawa prefectural government officials earlier in the day, Inamine said he hopes Tokyo will help to turn Naha port into an international hub port after the U.S. military vacates the area.

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Gov't to remember WWII victims of battles off Kyushu

NAHA, Japan - A ship carrying about 470 bereaved family members of the victims of U.S. naval attacks during World War II near islands between Okinawa and Kagoshima prefectures leave Naha port Nov. 29, 2001. They will take part in a series of government-sponsored memorial services to mourn for people who were on some 130 ships sunk by U.S. submarines around the Ryukyu Islands.

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Citizens protest drilling survey for Futemma relocation facility

NAHA, Japan - About 300 people sit in at a fishery port in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, on Sept. 9 to protest against the government's plan to begin drilling the seabed in preparation for an offshore facility to relocate the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station. (Kyodo)

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Taiwan ship resumes Okinawa port calls after SARS containment

NAHA, Japan - Local people perform traditional music during a welcoming ceremony at Nakagusukuwan port on Okinawa Prefecture's main island on July 7 for the 19,093-ton Superstar Gemini cruise ship from Taiwan. The ship resumed making port calls in Okinawa for the first time in about six weeks after the SARS epidemic was declared contained. (Kyodo)

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Ports of Naha, Taiwan become "partnership" ports

Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga (R) and Chang Chih-ching, chairman of Taiwan International Ports Corp., shake hands while holding a memorandum of understanding in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, on April 21, 2015. The Naha Port Authority headed by Onaga and the Taiwanese organization agreed to make the Naha port and major ports in Taiwan "partnership ports" so they can jointly promote tourism and commodity distribution between them. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Greenpeace boat in Okinawa to oppose planned U.S. base relocation

A sailboat of Greenpeace arrives at Naha New Port in Okinawa Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Nov. 2, 2015, to protest against the planned intra-prefectural relocation of U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan to the Henoko area of Nago. The international environmental group claims offshore reclamation in the area for the relocation project threatens extinction of the dwindling dugong population there. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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9 sail boats leave Okinawa for S. Korea in int'l boat race

NAHA, Japan - Japan's sail boat Kaisei leaves a port in Naha, Okinawa, on May 11 for Incheon, South Korea, in an international sail boat race to commemorate the World Cup soccer finals to be co-hosted by Japan and South Korea. Nine sail boats from Japan, South Korea, the Netherlands, New Zealand and Russia took part in the race to Incheon.

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Damaged Japan Coast Guard vessel

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows the Japan Coast Guard vessel Mizuki, damaged from collisions with a Chinese fishing boat at sea near the disputed Senkaku Islands, at a port on Ishigaki Island in Okinawa Prefecture on Sept. 8, 2010. The Naha District Public Prosecutors Office decided on Sept. 24 to release the captain of the boat who had been detained over the incident. (Kyodo)

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Chinese boat in collisions

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a Chinese fishing boat which collided with a Japan Coast Guard vessel near the Senkaku Islands, administered by Japan but also claimed by China and Taiwan, at Ishigaki port in Okinawa Prefecture, on Sept. 8, 2010. The Naha District Public Prosecutors Office decided on Sept. 24 to release the captain of the boat who had been detained over the incident. (Kyodo)

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Police take 7 Chinese to Okinawa after landing on Senkakus

NAHA, Japan - Seven Chinese activists who were arrested on March 24 on suspicion of entering Japanese territory illegally on Uotsurijima Island, one of the disputed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, disembark from a Japan Coast Guard patrol ship at Naha Port in Okinawa Prefecture on March 25. (Kyodo)

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N. Korean ship prevented from leaving Okinawa due to defects

NAHA, Japan - The 1,499-ton North Korean freighter Rungrado remains anchored at Nakagusuku Bay port on eastern Okinawa Island on Oct. 3, although the ship was scheduled to leave the port Oct. 1. Authorities have prevented the vessel from leaving due to defects found during an inspection by the regional bureau of the Cabinet Office. (Kyodo)

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Riot police go to Okinawa to guard U.S. bases

NAHA, Japan - Vehicles carrying the first group of riot police arrive at Naha port in Okinawa on March 28 to increase security around U.S. military bases and other U.S.-related facilities. A total of about 300 police officers from the Chubu and Kinki areas are to be deployed to Okinawa by later in the day. (Kyodo)

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MSDF disposes of 14 unexploded shells in Naha Harbor+

NAHA, Japan, May 17 Kyodo - Members of the Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) detonate unexploded artillery shells believed to have been used by the United States during World War II off Naha port in Okinawa Prefecture on May 17. They disposed of 14 shells, found during an earlier marine probe prior to reclamation work in Naha harbor.

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U.S. naval port plan backer elected mayor of Urasoe, Okinawa

NAHA, Japan - Mitsuo Gima (L), who won Sunday's Urasoe mayoral election, raises his hands with his wife Asako in a celebration at his campaign office Feb. 11. Gima, 57, a former Okinawa prefectural assembly chairman, supports a plan to relocate a U.S. naval port to Urasoe from nearby Okinawa prefectural capital Naha. He won 19,739 votes, beating incumbent Kenichi Miyagi with 18,553. Gima was supported by the Liberal Democratic Party, the New Conservative Party and the New Komeito party.

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French navy returns to Okinawa to commemorate 2 sailors

NAHA, Japan - A member of the French navy on Dec. 4 pays respects to the tombs of two French sailors who died of illness in 1846 while their ship made a port call in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, then part of the Ryukyu Kingdom. A ceremony was held the same day to honor symbolically a promise the navy made at the time to return to the kingdom to collect the sailors' remains. The event took place at the ''Oranda tombs,'' in Nago's Untembaru area, and was attended by the captain and crew of the French destroyer Vendemiaire and French Ambassador Maurice Gourdault-Montagne, as well as Nago Mayor Tateo Kishimoto and other local representatives.

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Okinawa accepts relocating U.S. port to Urasoe

Okinawa Gov. Keiichi Inamine (C) is thronged by reporters in Tokyo on Jan. 29 after expressing his intention to allow the relocation of the U.S. Army port in the prefectural capital of Naha to the neighboring city of Urasoe. In a meeting between central government and Okinawa prefectural government officials earlier in the day, Inamine said he hopes Tokyo will help to turn Naha port into an international hub port after the U.S. military vacates the area. ==Kyodo