The Marine Corps renewed agreements with local mayors to provide a refuge to Okinawans fleeing a natural disaster, such as a tsunami of the force that wiped out portions of eastern Japan’s coast in 2011. 

The Marine Corps has launched a smartphone app that provides troops with information about drowning hazards around Okinawa and a bridge over language barriers in an emergency.

The Ishigaki Island Kitchen Bin in Chatan town, Okinawa, is back, and its Ishigaki beef burgers are bursting with flavor.

An Army program on Okinawa is providing stress management, marriage counseling and financial literacy to military members, Defense Department civilians and their families on Okinawa.

Twenty American and Japanese students recently came together on this U.S. Marine base for two days of educational and cultural exchange activities.

The Navy’s one-stop hotel reservation center expects to take more than a million calls per year now that it’s expanded to handle lodging requests at Marine Corps bases worldwide.

Born in the midst of World War II, the Marine Corps’ 3rd Division played key roles on Guam and Iwo Jima and again in Vietnam at Khe Sanh and the evacuation of Saigon.

A Defense Department agency wants specific categories of veterans to know they have access to tax-free recreational activities, retail shopping and grocery stores on U.S. bases.

Hinnamnor is projected to be a Category 2-equivalent typhoon when it passes 216 miles west of Kadena Air Base at approximately 11 a.m. Sunday, the 18th Wing Weather Flight said.

The Marine Corps aims to reduce the hazards of driving on Okinawa by exposing its young troops to the consequences of traffic collisions as explained by first responders.