Camp Foster

Camp Foster, formerly known as Camp Zukeran is a United States Marine Corps camp positioned in Ginowan City with quantities overlapping into Okinawa City, Chatan city and Kitanakagusuku village within the Japanese prefecture of Okinawa Island. It is part of the Marine Corps Base Camp Smedley D. Butler complicated. Camp Foster a United States Marine Corps camp positioned in Ginowan City.

Some of its quantities overlap with Okinawa City, Chatan town and Kitanakagusuku village inside the Japanese prefecture of Okinawa Island. It homes the headquarters of Marine Corps Base Butler, Marine Corps Installations Pacific and the Okinawa Area Field Office of United States Forces Japan. It changed into named after the Medal of Honor recipient PFC William A. Foster. In October 2013 Japanese officials entered the base with US permission to look for buried cultural houses.

They found dozens of abandoned metallic drums, but did no longer report this to the Ginowan metropolis's mayor until March 2014. The Futenma housing place of the bottom initially became to be returned to Japan among 2001 and 2003, 5–7 years from 1996. In 2006, the Nishi-Futenma housing area at Camp Foster was vacated and slated for go back to Japan, however Japanese concerns of contamination stalled the switch. For example, bungalows inside the navy housing region constructed inside the 1950s had been insulated with asbestos.