The Japanese Red Cross recently parked its blood-collection bus on this base south of Hiroshima for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic.

Two Japanese contractors were declared dead Tuesday after they were pulled from a tank on a barge at a Navy base in southwestern Japan, a Sasebo Police spokesman said Wednesday.

Japan has finished phase one of a plan to turn another of its largest warships into a carrier of fifth-generation stealth fighters, according to the Japanese navy.

Japanese police say they arrested a U.S. airman Friday who had two live bullets in his carry-on luggage at an Okinawa airport.

Japanese police arrested an Air Force employee over the weekend on suspicion of hitting and injuring a man with her phone at Naha Airport, according to a spokesman for Okinawa Prefectural Police.

A contractor discovered what appears to be a human bone while surveying a construction site near Camp Schwab, a Marine Corps base on Okinawa, according to the Okinawa Defense Bureau.

North Korea launched a medium-range ballistic missile into the waters east of the Korean Peninsula early Tuesday, according to the South’s Joint Chiefs of Staff.

The U.S. military recently teamed up with the FBI and the Smithsonian Institution to return 22 artworks and other items missing since World War II to Okinawa. The return of the artifacts, believed to have been looted by U.S. troops, has rekindled interest in other treasures lost during the Battle of Okinawa nearly 80 years ago.

Japan’s military resumed flights of its V-22 Ospreys on Thursday, a week after the U.S. Marines flew theirs again and nearly four months after the fatal crash of a U.S. Air Force CV-22 in southern Japan.

Eight service members at Kadena Air Base may face charges of importing illegal drugs into Japan by mail over the past year.