Anthony Easton turned over his duties as sergeant major of Marine Corps Installations Pacific to his successor, closing out a 31-year career and his time on Okinawa that saw the Marines activate a second littoral regiment on the island but was marred by a spate of sexual assault charges against service members.

An explosion at a munitions storage facility on Kadena Air Base occurred when Japanese soldiers accidentally detonated a fuse on a World War II-era anti-tank shell, Japan’s military said.

Japan’s army has begun relocating its fleet of V-22 Osprey aircraft to a new base as part of an effort to beef up its presence near disputed islands amid aggressive moves by China.

A U.S. airman and a Marine were arrested on unrelated accusations of assaulting local residents near Kadena Air Base, police said.

Japanese soldiers defused a U.S.-made, 275-pound bomb believed to be a World War II leftover at a historic villa in Okinawa’s capital city.

The U.S. Air Force will begin its largest joint multinational exercise in the western Pacific to stress-test its maneuver concept for modern warfare.

Japan plans to build an underground bomb shelter on its westernmost island that’s capable of housing up to 200 people in the event of a military attack or natural disaster.

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 16-year-old son of a U.S. military civilian employee was arrested after allegedly crashing a stolen car and fleeing into an apartment building, Japanese police said.

A U.S. Air Force training exercise off Okinawa took an unexpected turn when a supply bundle carrying a rescue boat detached from its parachute and fell into the sea, the 18th Wing said.