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.

A Japanese court sentenced a U.S. Marine to seven years in prison after convicting him of strangling and attempting to sexually assault a woman on Okinawa.

Thousands marked the 80th anniversary of the end of the Battle of Okinawa, as U.S. and Japanese officials delivered messages of peace in separate ceremonies.

Eighty years after Navy hospital corpsman Vernon “Monk” Martin was killed in the Battle of Okinawa, his name has been added to the Cornerstone of Peace monument.

Japanese prosecutors have indicted a U.S. Marine who allegedly fled the scene of a drunken driving crash last month that injured four people, including two children.

Marine Staff Sgt. Stephon Smith received a Joint Service Achievement Medal on April 4 for his work with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency this spring.

Chinese fighter jets had two close encounters with Japanese patrol aircraft as Beijing’s two aircraft carriers operated simultaneously in the Pacific for the first time, according to Japan’s military.

Japanese troops demonstrated a new, explosion-proof container that improves safety during the removal of unexploded U.S.-made ordnance left over from World War II.