The Marine Corps certified Okinawa’s first 12 attack drone operators during a two-week attack drone competition.

The U.S. military has acknowledged that military police patrolling an Okinawa street made a “mistake” when they aggressively detained U.S. civilian Kareem El last month in an incident captured on video that went viral.

An American civilian whose arrest by U.S. military police on Okinawa was captured on viral video says the unprovoked takedown left him injured, traumatized and demanding answers.

Two Okinawa government officials urged caution amid a review of street patrols by U.S. military police in nightlife districts following a viral video of a U.S. civilian’s violent arrest.

Three fighter squadrons arrived for rotational duty at Kadena Air Base on Okinawa as the 18th Wing inches closer to a permanent fleet of F-15EX Eagle IIs in the spring.

Police have accused a U.S. Navy sailor on Okinawa of inappropriately touching a Japanese girl over the summer, adding to a string of offenses that have roiled the island community the past two years.

Japan’s Ministry of Defense has rejected a request from Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki to fund new filters designed to remove PFAS from a major water purification plant in central Okinawa.

U.S. military police arrested 15 service members during a recent patrol of the nightlife district in Okinawa city — the highest number of arrests on a single night since the patrols began in April.

Only a dozen or so U.S. service members in civilian attire were spotted among the teeming revelers still celebrating Halloween on the streets of Naha’s nightlife district.

Chatan town cannot immediately satisfy a request for additional water from a neighboring Marine Corps base that detected elevated levels of “forever chemicals” in its storage tank, according to a town official.