Two workers were rescued Thursday after a small construction vessel capsized at the site of a future Marine Corps airfield in northern Okinawa, according to Japan’s coast guard. It’s the latest incident at the site after four previous oil spills this year involving construction vessels.

Japan’s army is planning a long-range missile drill next month — the first within its borders — as the country continues to beef up its military to counter regional rival China.

A Navy charge sheet released this week provides new details in the case of an officer accused of killing his wife while stationed in Japan, alleging he fatally beat and strangled her before attempting to conceal the crime from hotel staff.

The U.S. Marine Corps and Okinawa Defense Bureau are searching for a 40-pound bag of signal flares that fell from a helicopter over northern Okinawa this week.

A fourth squadron of F-35B Lightning IIs has arrived in Japan as the Marine Corps continues to modernize its aircraft in the Indo-Pacific.

About 35 Okinawa civilian and U.S. military leaders met in a promised forum at Camp Foster to discuss cooperative measures to stem criminal behavior by U.S. service members on the island.

A construction vessel spilled fuel oil at the site of a future U.S. Marine Corps airfield being built on reclaimed land in Oura Bay.

Lt. Cmdr. Christopher Olsen, a Navy surface warfare officer, could face a court-martial on a charge of second-degree murder in the death of his wife Jessica “Jesse” Arguinzoni Olsen at a Japanese hotel last year, the service said.

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.”