A U.S. Marine convicted June 24 in Japanese court of strangling and attempting to sexually assault a woman on Okinawa has appealed the verdict.

The Justice Department announced criminal charges in a scheme by North Korea to fund its weapons program through the salaries of remote information technology workers employed unwittingly by U.S. companies.

China’s envoy to Canberra urged Australia not to be “incited” by NATO’s support for U.S. demands to sharply raise defense spending and instead cooperate with Beijing to resolve regional disputes.

China’s envoy to Canberra urged Australia not to be “incited” by NATO’s support for U.S. demands to sharply raise defense spending and instead cooperate with Beijing to resolve regional disputes.

A Hawaii regulatory board voted 5-1 to reject the Army’s final environmental impact statement on plans to retain state land on Oahu after leases expire in 2029. The vote came after a day of emotional testimony from members of the public.

Six Americans were detained Friday in South Korea for trying to send 1,600 plastic bottles filled with rice, miniature Bibles, $1 bills and USB sticks toward North Korea by sea, police said.

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency has identified the remains of three airmen killed in action in Laos in 1968 when their secret mountaintop radar site was overrun by North Vietnamese commandos.

The sacred camphor tree at Kinomiya Shrine in Atami is no ordinary timber. Estimated to be more than 2,000 years old, it is one of Japan’s largest and oldest camphor trees — a towering guardian of time, deeply entwined with local lore and spiritual tradition.

If you’re curious about what love in a bowl of ramen tastes like, give Big Bear and Suehiro Shokudo in Iwakuni, Japan, a try.

The Navy’s fiscal 2026 budget request for the sea service and the Marine Corps totals $292.2 billion of which $47.3 billion would go to building new ships.