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GSDF's new ground-to-ship missile unit in Okinawa

The Japan Ground Self-Defense Force holds a ceremony marking the launch of a new ground-to-ship missile unit in the GSDF's Camp Katsuren in Uruma, Okinawa Prefecture, on March 30, 2024.

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GSDF's new ground-to-ship missile unit in Okinawa

The Japan Ground Self-Defense Force holds a ceremony marking the launch of a new ground-to-ship missile unit in the GSDF's Camp Katsuren in Uruma, Okinawa Prefecture, on March 30, 2024.

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GSDF's new ground-to-ship missile unit in Okinawa

The Japan Ground Self-Defense Force holds a ceremony marking the launch of a new ground-to-ship missile unit in the GSDF's Camp Katsuren in Uruma, Okinawa Prefecture, on March 30, 2024.

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GSDF's new ground-to-ship missile unit in Okinawa

The Japan Ground Self-Defense Force holds a ceremony marking the launch of a new ground-to-ship missile unit in the GSDF's Camp Katsuren in Uruma, Okinawa Prefecture, on March 30, 2024.

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GSDF's new ground-to-ship missile unit in Okinawa

The Japan Ground Self-Defense Force holds a ceremony marking the launch of a new ground-to-ship missile unit in the GSDF's Camp Katsuren in Uruma, Okinawa Prefecture, on March 30, 2024.

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Urban Animal Album

OSAKA, Japan - An Okinawa Rail, a critically endangered, flightless bird found only in northern Okinawa, is suspended inside its cage to maintain upright posture, a measure to help in its rehabilitation after its spinal cord was damaged, at a facility run by a nonprofit group protecting wild animals in Uruma, Okinawa Prefecture, on Sept. 27, 2013. The bird, believed to have been hit by a car and found immobile on a road in the summer of 2011, has since been recovering and now undergoes walking training at the facility.

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Lt. Gen. Glueck

NAHA, Japan - An Aug. 21, 2012, file photo shows Lt. Gen. Kenneth Glueck, commanding general of the Third Marine Expeditionary Force, at the U.S. Marine Corps' Camp Courtney in Uruma, Okinawa Prefecture.

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Okinawa aims to draw advanced IT businesses

FUKUOKA, Japan - Photo shows Okinawa IT Shinryo Park in Uruma, Okinawa Prefecture, on April 19, 2012. The Okinawa prefectural government opened the IT complex in 2009 on more than 10 hectares, a major project aimed at creating 8,000 new jobs and building an information technology hub in Asia.

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U.S. Marines in Okinawa

TOKYO, Japan - Members of the U.S. Marine Corps arrive at the White Beach U.S. Naval facility in Uruma, Okinawa Prefecture, in April 2011, after taking part in Operation Tomodachi to support people affected by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan. On Feb. 6, 2012, Japan and the United States confirmed a policy to move about 4,700 U.S. Marines in Okinawa to Guam, delinking the troops' transfer from a plan to relocate the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station within the prefecture, Japanese officials said.

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Japan-U.S. tsunami rescue drills

URUMA, Japan - Japan's Air Self-Defense Force and the U.S. military conduct a joint lifesaving drill on Dec. 5, 2011, in Uruma, Okinawa Prefecture, in southern Japan. The drills were conducted on the assumption that an earthquake has occurred off the eastern coast of the Okinawa main island, triggering a tsunami which had swept people out to sea.

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Japan-U.S. tsunami rescue drills

URUMA, Japan - Japan's Air Self-Defense Force and the U.S. military conduct a joint lifesaving drill on Dec. 5, 2011, in Uruma, Okinawa Prefecture, in southern Japan. The drills were conducted on the assumption that an earthquake has occurred off the eastern coast of the Okinawa main island, triggering a tsunami which had swept people out to sea.

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Japan-U.S. tsunami rescue drills

URUMA, Japan - Japan's Air Self-Defense Force and the U.S. military conduct a joint lifesaving drill on Dec. 5, 2011, in Uruma, Okinawa Prefecture, in southern Japan. The drills were conducted on the assumption that an earthquake has occurred off the eastern coast of the Okinawa main island, triggering a tsunami which had swept people out to sea.

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Camp Courtney in Uruma, Okinawa Pref.

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken on Feb. 18, 2008, shows Camp Courtney, a U.S. Marine base, located in Uruma, Okinawa Prefecture.

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Young sumo power

NAHA, Japan - Takeshi Amitani, captain of the Tottori Jyouhoku High School sumo club, is tossed in the air by teammates celebrating their victory in a national meet in Uruma, Okinawa Prefecture, on Aug. 4, 2010.

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DPJ partners oppose reclamation option

TOKYO, Japan - Mikio Shimoji (L), People's New Party Diet affairs chief, Kantoku Teruya (C), head of the Social Democratic Party's Diet affairs, and Tomoko Abe(R), the policy chief of the SDP, comes out of a meeting with Cabinet Secretary Hirofumi Hirano on March 31, 2010, at the prime minister's office in Tokyo. The three representing the junior partners of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan opposed a prospective proposal to relocate the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station to an area to be reclaimed from the sea off a U.S. Navy facility in Uruma, Okinawa Prefecture.

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Anti-U.S. base rally held in Uruma, Okinawa

NAHA, Japan - Some 600 people protest against an idea to relocate the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station to reclaimed land off the U.S. Navy's White Beach facility in Uruma, Okinawa Prefecture, during a rally in the city March 25, 2010.

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U.S. Navy's White Beach base in Okinawa

TOKYO, Japan - This file photo shows Tsuken Island (foreground) and the U.S. Navy's White Beach base (far behind) in Uruma, Okinawa Prefecture, on March 11, 2010. An idea of reclaiming land between the shore and the island has been floated for the ongoing realignment of U.S. military forces in Japan.

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U.S. Navy's White Beach base in Okinawa

TOKYO, Japan - This file photo shows the U.S. Navy's White Beach base in Uruma, Okinawa Prefecture, on March 11, 2010.

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U.S. Navy's White Beach base in Okinawa

TOKYO, Japan - This file photo shows Tsuken Island (foreground) and the U.S. Navy's White Beach base (far behind) in Uruma, Okinawa Prefecture, on March 11, 2010. An idea of reclaiming land between the shore and the island has been floated for the ongoing realignment of U.S. military forces in Japan.

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Japan, U.S. hold joint drill for U.S. military plane crash

NAHA, Japan - Rescue workers carry a mock injured person during a joint Japan-U.S. drill at the U.S. Navy's White Beach facility in the city of Uruma, Okinawa Prefecture, on Feb. 18. The drill was held to prepare for the case of a crash of a U.S. military plane in the prefecture.

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Okinawa gubernatorial race

Incumbent Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki waves to voters in Uruma, Okinawa Prefecture, on Aug. 25, 2022, as campaigning began the same day for the Sept. 11 gubernatorial election in the southern Japanese island prefecture.

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Okinawa gubernatorial race

Incumbent Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki makes a speech in Uruma, Okinawa Prefecture, on Aug. 25, 2022, as campaigning began the same day for the Sept. 11 gubernatorial election in the southern Japanese island prefecture.