Japan’s coast guard is monitoring a Chinese research vessel that has been conducting a survey in waters near the disputed Senkaku Islands.

Okinawa’s government plans a formal protest to the U.S. military and Japanese government over a Marine Corps helicopter’s precautionary landing that forced a youth baseball team to flee a practice.

Two U.S. airfields on Okinawa are the likely sources of the highest levels of toxic “forever chemicals” discovered in nearby groundwater in a decade, according to the Okinawa government.

Japan this summer will deploy equipment to support surface-to-ship missile exercises from its easternmost island that are slated to begin as soon as next year, according to the Ministry of Defense.

The Air Force has recovered 575 gallons of diesel fuel that spilled at Kadena Air Base on Okinawa and “affected” its stormwater system, according to the 18th Wing.

A town in southern Japan will pay its residents about $500 over four years to help offset noise from the Japan Air Self-Defense Force’s new F-35B fighters at a nearby air base.

A Japanese court handed a U.S. sailor a two-year, suspended sentence after convicting him of attempting to smuggle magic truffles onto Okinawa through the Japanese mail system.

A veteran Marine fighter pilot and former instructor at the Navy’s elite Top Gun school has taken command of a key U.S. air unit in the Indo-Pacific.

Chinese coast guard vessels entered waters Japan claim’s around the disputed Senkaku Islands while chasing a Japanese fishing boat amid heightened tensions between Tokyo and Beijing.

Sending a Marine expeditionary unit from Okinawa to stand by in the Middle East leaves a gap in U.S. power in the Indo-Pacific while increasing the defense burden on its Asian allies, according to analysts.