A fire broke out Friday during firearms training at a rifle range in northern Okinawa, burning more than 215,000 square feet, according to Marine Corps and Japanese officials.

Local officials objected to plans by U.S. Forces Japan to add a handful of new personnel to a small military compound in central Tokyo as a “perpetuation” of the U.S. military presence.

U.S. Forces Japan is establishing a satellite office in central Tokyo as part of its reorganization to a joint force command and to ease communications with Japan’s Ministry of Defense, according to the ministry.

Japanese prosecutors have declined to charge a U.S. Marine accused of stealing a car, driving drunk, crashing it, and intruding into a man’s home in Iwakuni last month.

Japan on Monday activated a new military command that will take operational control of all three of its armed forces, as the country bolsters its defense posture amid rising regional tensions.

Japanese prosecutors dropped their case against a U.S. airman accused of breaking into and smashing up an Okinawa liquor store last year, a spokesman said Wednesday.

The Air Force’s 18th Wing at Kadena Air Base on Okinawa is tightening approval measures for nighttime exercises after unauthorized training last month involving simulated explosions and gunfire drew complaints from a neighboring town.

A sailor with the U.S. 7th Fleet was charged Thursday by Japanese prosecutors with causing the death of a motorcyclist in a traffic collision in September near a gate at Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan.

The Army and Air Force Exchange Service is encouraging people at Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo to use a local taxi company’s mobile app for on- and off-base travel.

Japanese police are investigating a bomb threat against Yokota Air Base, the U.S. military hub in western Tokyo that also serves as the headquarters of U.S. Forces Japan.