The destructive winds of Typhoon Khanun are expected to lash Japan’s island prefecture through Thursday morning, according to forecasters that include the weather flight at Kadena Air Base.

Japanese police say a U.S. Marine was driving under the influence of alcohol when his car crashed into a taxi on Okinawa over the weekend.

A Marine Corps sergeant was in an Okinawa jail Friday after Japanese police say he was driving under the influence when he led them on 10-minute car chase through several red lights.

Japan’s Defense Ministry wants to place surveillance radar on a tiny island off Okinawa’s east coast to monitor Chinese ships and aircraft passing through nearby waterways.

Okinawa prefecture plans to expand its search for PFAS contamination to additional sites after tests in February discovered high levels of “forever chemicals” in groundwater around U.S. military bases.

Japanese police arrested a Marine over the weekend on suspicion of trespassing on an Okinawa resident’s third-floor balcony.

Japan has lodged complaints with China and Taiwan for sending ships into waters around the Senkakus, a group of small islands it controls in the East China Sea.

The pilot dropped the plane’s external fuel tank May 29, 2022, about 15 nautical miles off Okinawa in international waters as a safety measure before landing at Kadena Air Base, the Navy said at the time.

The Patriot’s deployment was delayed until June 2 due to strong winds from a passing typhoon.

Hundreds of unexploded, U.S.-made shells believed to date to the Battle of Okinawa have been recovered from a small island by the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force.