Authorities briefly locked down a middle school at Kadena Air Base on Okinawa on Wednesday after a camera was found in a girls’ restroom, base officials said.

In a vivid display of U.S. military might, more than 50 aircraft and two Patriot missile batteries lined Kadena Air Base on Okinawa for what the service calls an “elephant walk.”

Cpl. Jason P. Cockrell, a Marine, died on a mountain hike at Mount Furano.

A Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II has returned to its home air station after undergoing maintenance for more than a month at a civilian airport in southern Japan, the service said.

One of two U.S. Marines who went missing Friday during a mountain hike in northern Japan has died.

Okinawa’s prefectural government lodged formal protests with Japanese and U.S. authorities following a fourth case of sexual assault involving American service members on the island in the past year.

Maj. Zachary Sessa’s role in leading the F-35C Lightning II’s first combat sorties as part of the U.S. mission to target Houthi weapons storage facilities in Yemen earned him the Alfred A. Cunningham Award and the title of Marine Aviator of the Year.

The first formal forum between U.S. military and Okinawan leaders is set to convene May 9, a move proposed last year in response to a series of sexual assault allegations involving American service members on the island.

Japanese prosecutors have indicted a U.S. Marine on charges of sexually assaulting a Japanese woman and injuring another in a restroom on a Marine Corps base in March.

As California-based Reserve Marines trained in the desert in January to prepare for a six-month deployment to Okinawa, a wildfire crept toward their neighborhoods back home.