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Blast in Okinawa hurts 4 Japan SDF members

A Japan Self-Defense Forces vehicle with a sign reading "Unexploded bomb disposal" is seen in an ammunition depot area in the village of Yomitan in Okinawa Prefecture, on June 9, 2025. An explosion occurred earlier in the day in the area near the U.S. military's Kadena Air Base, slightly injuring four Japan Ground Self-Defense Force members who were working at the depot.

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Hanshin Tigers players in green uniforms

YOMITAN, Japan - Shintaro Fujinami (L) and Tsuyoshi Nishioka of the Hanshin Tigers pose in green uniforms designed to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the opening of the professional baseball club's home ground, Hanshin Koshien Stadium, in Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, on Jan. 31, 2014, ahead of the start of their spring camp on Feb. 1.

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Hanshin rookies get taste of Ryukyu Karate during spring camp

YOMITAN, Japan - Hanshin Tigers rookies Shoya Yamamoto (L) and Ryutaro Umeno (C back) experience a session of Ryukyu Karate on Feb. 6, 2014, their first day off during the professional baseball club's spring training camp in the village of Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture.

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U.S. service member's alleged trespass in Okinawa

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Roos arrives at the Japanese Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Nov. 2, 2012, at the request of Japanese Senior Vice Foreign Minister Shuji Kira, following an alleged trespass earlier in the day by a member of the U.S. military at an apartment in the village of Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture. The U.S. serviceman allegedly hit a 13-year-old boy in the apartment.

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U.S. service member's alleged trespass in Okinawa

NAHA, Japan - Photo taken in the village of Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture, on Nov. 2, 2012, shows a building where a U.S. serviceman from the U.S. Air Force's Kadena base allegedly entered a third-floor apartment and hit a 13-year-old boy before jumping from the third floor early on the day.

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Powerful typhoon to rip through Okinawa

YOMITAN, Japan - A tree is knocked down due to strong winds in Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture, on Aug. 26, 2012. One of the most powerful typhoons in many years, packing gusts of up to 252 kilometers per hour, was slowly moving on course to rip through Okinawa's main island, with the Japan Meteorological Agency warning it could bring record rain and wind to the region.

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Powerful typhoon to rip through Okinawa

YOMITAN, Japan - A tree is knocked down due to strong winds in Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture, on Aug. 26, 2012. One of the most powerful typhoons in many years, packing gusts of up to 252 kilometers per hour, was slowly moving on course to rip through Okinawa's main island, with the Japan Meteorological Agency warning it could bring record rain and wind to the region.

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Powerful typhoon to rip through Okinawa

YOMITAN, Japan - A wave breaks along a cape in Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture, on Aug. 26, 2012. One of the most powerful typhoons in many years, packing gusts of up to 252 kilometers per hour, was slowly moving on course to rip through Okinawa's main island, with the Japan Meteorological Agency warning it could bring record rain and wind to the region.

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Anti-Futemma base rally in Okinawa

YOMITAN, Japan - Ginowan Mayor Yoichi Iha addresses a nonpartisan rally in Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture, on April 25, 2010, calling for the relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station now in Ginowan.

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Anti-Futemma base rally in Okinawa

YOMITAN, Japan - Nago Mayor Susumu Inamine addresses a nonpartisan rally calling for the relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station in Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture, on April 25, 2010. Inamine lashed out at the state government for only trying to deal with the politically sensitive issue ''on a day-to-day basis.''

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Anti-Futemma base rally in Okinawa

NAHA, Japan - A rally calling for the relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station is held in Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture, on April 25, 2010. About 90,000 people took part in the event, according to the organizer.

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Anti-Futemma base rally in Okinawa

YOMITAN, Japan - Narumi Shikiya and Kana Okamoto, both students of Futemma Senior High School, take turns addressing a rally calling for the relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station in Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture, on April 25, 2010. The girls urged ''all people in Japan'' to put themselves in Okinawans' shoes.

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Anti-Futemma base rally in Okinawa

YOMITAN, Japan - Narumi Shikiya (L) and Kana Okamoto, both students of Futemma Senior High School, take turns addressing a rally calling for the relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station in Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture, on April 25, 2010. The girls urged ''all people in Japan'' to put themselves in Okinawans' shoes.

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Anti-Futemma base rally in Okinawa

YOMITAN, Japan - People call for the relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station in a rally in Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture, on April 25, 2010.

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Anti-Futemma base rally in Okinawa

YOMITAN, Japan - People call for the relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station in a rally in Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture, on April 25, 2010. A sign reads, ''Bases No!!''

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Anti-Futemma base rally in Okinawa

YOMITAN, Japan - People call for the relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station in a rally in Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture, on April 25, 2010. A sign reads, ''Don't trample Okinawa's will underfoot.''

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Anti-Futemma base rally in Okinawa

YOMITAN, Japan - A participant in a rally calling for the relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station listens to an address in Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture, on April 25, 2010.

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Anti-Futemma base rally in Okinawa

YOMITAN, Japan - A child reacts to a speech during a rally calling for the relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station in Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture, on April 25, 2010.

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Anti-Futemma base rally in Okinawa

YOMITAN, Japan - People call for the relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station in a rally in Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture, on April 25, 2010. A banner reads, ''No military bases in sea nor on land.''

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Anti-Futemma base rally in Okinawa

YOMITAN, Japan - Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima addresses a nonpartisan rally calling for the relocation of the U.S. Marines Corps' Futemma Air Station in Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture, on April 25, 2010. Nakaima urged Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama to hammer out a ''responsible'' measure to deal with Okinawa's frustration over the issue.

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Anti-Futemma base rally in Okinawa

YOMITAN, Japan - A rally calling for the relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station is held in Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture, on April 25, 2010. About 90,000 people took part in the event, according to the organizer.

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Anti-Futemma base rally in Okinawa

YOMITAN, Japan - People call for the relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station in a rally in Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture, on April 25, 2010. A banner reads, ''No military bases in sea nor on land.''

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Anti-Futemma base rally in Okinawa

YOMITAN, Japan - A rally calling for the relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station is held in Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture, on April 25, 2010. About 90,000 people took part in the event, according to the organizer.

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Anti-Futemma base rally in Okinawa

NAHA, Japan - A rally calling for the relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station is held in Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture, on April 25, 2010. About 90,000 people took part in the event, according to the organizer.

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Anti-Futemma base rally in Okinawa

NAHA, Japan - A rally calling for the relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station is held in Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture, on April 25, 2010. About 90,000 people took part in the event, according to the organizer.

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Anti-Futemma base rally in Okinawa

NAHA, Japan - A rally calling for the relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station is held in Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture, on April 25, 2010. About 90,000 people took part in the event, according to the organizer.

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Okinawa protests at U.S. military over accident

NAHA, Japan - People gather at a rally in Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture, on Dec. 13, 2009, protesting the U.S. military's handling of last month's fatal hit-and-run accident in the village. Yomitan Mayor Taizo Yasuda and other key participants demanded that the U.S. military hand over a serviceman suspected of involvement in the accident to Japanese police.

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Okinawa protests at U.S. military over accident

NAHA, Japan - Participants in a rally march in Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture, on Dec. 13, 2009, protesting the U.S. military's handling of last month's fatal hit-and-run accident in the village. Some placards read ''Hand over the bad American soldier'' and ''Apologize to the victim.''

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Okinawa police search U.S. serviceman's home

YOMITAN, Japan - Police officers investigate a parking lot near the home of a U.S. Army serviceman in the village of Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture, on Nov. 10, 2009, on suspicion that he was involved in a recent hit-and-run accident that killed a local man. The U.S. Army in Okinawa said it has taken the serviceman into custody on the U.S. military premises.

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Antiwar activist who torched Hinomaru flag

NAHA, Japan - File photo shows Shoichi Chibana, an antiwar activist in the village of Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture, taking part in a mass protest rally over history textbooks at a Ginowan park in the prefecture on Sept. 29, 2007. The 64-year-old former village assemblyman, who was convicted of torching the Hinomaru flag at a national athletic meet in 1987, has vowed in an interview with Kyodo News to keep fighting to achieve peace in Okinawa ahead of the 40th anniversary on May 15, 2012, of the island's reversion to Japanese sovereignty from U.S. control.

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People moving to Okinawa from elsewhere in Japan seen critically

YOMITAN, Japan - Antiwar landowner Shoichi Chibana (C) shows tourists around his 236 square meter land in the Sobe Communication Site in the village of Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture. His land, part of the U.S. military facility, was returned to him in June 2006.

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Okinawa landowner to win back plot inside 'Elephant Cage' on Mon.

NAHA, Japan - Shoichi Chibana, an antiwar activist who owns a plot of land in the U.S. Navy's communication facility in the village of Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture, poses on a road leading to the facility commonly known as the ''Elephant Cage'' on July 24. Cbana will win back his land on July 31 when the Japanese government's expropriation expires.

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Gov't ordered to compensate Okinawa landowner over base

NAHA, Japan - Shoichi Chibana is seen Nov. 21 in front of the U.S. Navy's Sobe Communications Site in the village of Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture. The Naha District Court ordered the state Nov. 30 to pay 470,000 yen in damages to Chibana for forcing him to lease the land to the U.S. military even after land-use contracts between him and the state expired in 1996.

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Gov't ordered to compensate Okinawa landowner over base

NAHA, Japan - Shoichi Chibana is seen Nov. 21 in front of the U.S. Navy's Sobe Communications Site in the village of Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture. The Naha District Court ordered the state Nov. 30 to pay 470,000 yen in damages to Chibana for forcing him to lease the land to the U.S. military even after land-use contracts between him and the state expired in 1996.

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Aerial view of Okinawa coastline, U.S. military's 1945 landing site

The coastline of Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture, southwestern Japan, where the U.S. military landed on April 1, 1945, for the Battle of Okinawa, is seen in this aerial photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Feb. 18, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese-American WWII veteran pays 1st postwar visit to Okinawa

U.S. war veteran Harold Okumura, who fought in the Battle of Okinawa as a U.S. military interpreter, visits the coast of Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on April 1, 2015, the 70th anniversary of U.S. troops' landing there during World War II. Okumura, a third-generation Japanese-American living in Hawaii, visited Okinawa for the first time since working there briefly after the war. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Sunwolves get set to kick off Super Rugby campaign

Veteran lock Hitoshi Ono (L) runs with the ball during the Sunwolves' training in Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture, on Feb. 18, 2016. The Sunwolves launch their inaugural campaign in the expanded Super Rugby competition on Feb. 27 against the Johannesburg-based Lions in Tokyo. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Okinawa landowner to win back plot inside 'Elephant Cage' on Mon

NAHA, Japan - Shoichi Chibana, an antiwar activist who owns a plot of land in the U.S. Navy's communication facility in the village of Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture, poses on a road leading to the facility commonly known as the ''Elephant Cage'' on July 24. Cbana will win back his land on July 31 when the Japanese government's expropriation expires. (Kyodo)

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Okinawa protests at U.S. military over accident

NAHA, Japan - People gather at a rally in Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture, on Dec. 13, 2009, protesting the U.S. military's handling of last month's fatal hit-and-run accident in the village. Yomitan Mayor Taizo Yasuda and other key participants demanded that the U.S. military hand over a serviceman suspected of involvement in the accident to Japanese police. (Kyodo)

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Okinawa protests at U.S. military over accident

NAHA, Japan - Participants in a rally march in Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture, on Dec. 13, 2009, protesting the U.S. military's handling of last month's fatal hit-and-run accident in the village. Some placards read ''Hand over the bad American soldier'' and ''Apologize to the victim.'' (Kyodo)

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Anti-Futemma base rally in Okinawa

YOMITAN, Japan - Nago Mayor Susumu Inamine addresses a nonpartisan rally calling for the relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station in Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture, on April 25, 2010. Inamine lashed out at the state government for only trying to deal with the politically sensitive issue ''on a day-to-day basis.'' (Kyodo)

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Anti-Futemma base rally in Okinawa

YOMITAN, Japan - Ginowan Mayor Yoichi Iha addresses a nonpartisan rally in Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture, on April 25, 2010, calling for the relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station now in Ginowan. (Kyodo)

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Anti-Futemma base rally in Okinawa

YOMITAN, Japan - A child reacts to a speech during a rally calling for the relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station in Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture, on April 25, 2010. (Kyodo)

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Anti-Futemma base rally in Okinawa

YOMITAN, Japan - Narumi Shikiya and Kana Okamoto, both students of Futemma Senior High School, take turns addressing a rally calling for the relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station in Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture, on April 25, 2010. The girls urged ''all people in Japan'' to put themselves in Okinawans' shoes. (Kyodo)

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Anti-Futemma base rally in Okinawa

YOMITAN, Japan - Narumi Shikiya (L) and Kana Okamoto, both students of Futemma Senior High School, take turns addressing a rally calling for the relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station in Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture, on April 25, 2010. The girls urged ''all people in Japan'' to put themselves in Okinawans' shoes. (Kyodo)

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Anti-Futemma base rally in Okinawa

NAHA, Japan - A rally calling for the relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station is held in Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture, on April 25, 2010. About 90,000 people took part in the event, according to the organizer. (Kyodo)

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Anti-Futemma base rally in Okinawa

YOMITAN, Japan - People call for the relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station in a rally in Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture, on April 25, 2010. A sign reads, ''Bases No!!'' (Kyodo)

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Anti-Futemma base rally in Okinawa

YOMITAN, Japan - People call for the relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station in a rally in Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture, on April 25, 2010. A sign reads, ''Don't trample Okinawa's will underfoot.'' (Kyodo)

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Anti-Futemma base rally in Okinawa

YOMITAN, Japan - People call for the relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station in a rally in Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture, on April 25, 2010. A banner reads, ''No military bases in sea nor on land.'' (Kyodo)

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Anti-Futemma base rally in Okinawa

YOMITAN, Japan - A participant in a rally calling for the relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station listens to an address in Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture, on April 25, 2010. (Kyodo)