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.

A verdict and sentence are expected later this month for Lance Cpl. Jamel Clayton, who was accused of strangling and injuring a Japanese woman during an attempted sexual assault last year on Okinawa.

An explosion occurred at the northern section of a munitions storage area on Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, according to the Air Force.

A U.S. Marine accused of injuring a woman during an attempted sexual assault told a Japanese court he was “not violent” and spent only five minutes at her home.

A U.S. airman convicted in Japan of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a minor is scheduled to begin his appeal trial next month, according to court documents.

Human remains discovered on Okinawa in 2004 have been identified as those of a Japanese soldier, marking the first time DNA alone was used to confirm the identity of a casualty from the Battle of Okinawa.