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The Air Force Housing Management Office (HMO) manages Military Family Housing (MFH) for all service members assigned to Okinawa. [18] Kadena Air Base contains nearly 4,000 family housing units, in apartment, townhouse, and single family home styles.
The Okinawa Prefectural Police, and the Japan Coast Guard also utilize facilities at Naha Airport. As of 2013, funding in the region of ¥0.3 billion has been requested for preparing the base to host JASDF E-2C aircraft, including ¥70million for new repair and maintenance facilities. [7]
On 31 March 2015 the West Futenma housing area on Camp Foster was returned to Okinawa Prefecture, reducing and consolidating land used by the U.S. military. A 20-hectare part of the area is earmarked for a medical division with plans to build a prefecture administered advanced heavy particle cancer therapy facility.
It is home to approximately 3,000 [3] Marines of the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing and other units, and has been a U.S. military airbase since the defeat of the Japanese Imperial Army in the Battle of Okinawa in 1945. Marine Corps pilots and aircrew are assigned to the base for training and providing air support to other land and sea-based Marines ...
Camp Courtney houses many military families, has a movie theater, exchange, commissary, medical and dental clinics, post office, chapel and bank. [3] Many Marines living on Camp McTureous are stationed on Camp Courtney. The Michael Brown Okinawa assault incident occurred just outside the base on 2 November 2002.
Okinawa, which accounts for only 0.6% of Japanese land, is burdened with the majority of the 50,000 American troops based in the country under a bilateral security pact, and 70% of U.S. military ...
Onaga and a majority of Okinawa residents want the base moved off the island.", commented USA Today. [73] On 14 December 2018, landfill on a controversial new U.S. military runway that will one day facilitate the relocation and closure of Marine Corps Air Station Futenma began in Okinawa following years of protests and legal challenges. [74]
In 1990, for instance, 60% of Japanese dwellings consisted of single-family homes, compared with 77% in 1958. [6] Two years earlier, in 1988, 62.3% of the total housing units in Japan were single-family units and 37.7% were multiple-unit dwellings. [7]