A rare joint patrol of the nightlife area outside Kadena Air Base by U.S. military and Okinawa authorities ended with a Marine colonel reminding U.S. service members they had broken curfew.

Human bones discovered more than a year ago at a Marine Corps base on Okinawa belong to a local man who went missing in 2018, according to Japanese police.

An F-15E Strike Eagle deployed to Kadena Air Base on Okinawa lost a tire while taxiing on the runway Thursday, reportedly causing the jet to tilt to one side, but the incident was resolved with “no injuries or significant damage,” according to a wing spokeswoman.

The Japan Ground Self-Defense Force will open Camp Saga in July on former farmland west of Saga Airport in Saga prefecture.

A Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II that made a precautionary landing at a Japanese airport more than three weeks ago is still undergoing maintenance, the service said Tuesday.

Japanese police arrested two U.S. service members on Okinawa over the weekend in separate incidents.

U.S. service members will join Japanese police and local officials for the first joint patrol on Okinawa in more than half a century following a series of high-profile criminal cases involving American troops.

China last year sent more drones to probe Japanese airspace than in any previous year, part of an “extreme increase,” according to Gen. Yoshihide Yoshida, chief of Japan’s Joint Staff.

Japanese troops recently removed and neutralized three World War II-era U.S. artillery shells uncovered at construction sites across southern Okinawa and detonated another offshore, according to local officials.

U.S. Navy surveillance drones are returning to Okinawa six months after their last deployment to the island in response to heightening tensions with China, according to Japan’s Ministry of Defense.