Airmen from Kadena Air Base on Okinawa are deployed “in harm’s way” as part of U.S. military operations against Iran, the 18th Wing commander said during a recent livestreamed interview with American Forces Network.

Biannual seminar helps military spouses learn leadership skills and how to build community while navigating the challenges of military life.

A new variant of China’s Y-9 maritime patrol aircraft was recently spotted by Japanese fighter pilots over the East China Sea.

About 300 Defense Department elementary school students got a lesson in soccer — and perseverance — from Cal Jennings, a forward for the Okinawa-based FC Ryukyu.

Lance Cpl. Jamel Clayton will serve the remainder of his seven-year sentence for strangling and attempting to sexually assault a woman in her Okinawa home after declining to appeal his conviction to Japan’s Supreme Court.

Marine Corps Cpl. Joseph Lahann and Lance Cpl. Isaac Sanchez were out for an evening run last month when they jumped into action to provide aid to a Japanese woman who suffered chest trauma in a car accident on a busy thoroughfare in central Okinawa.

A Japanese court upheld a U.S. Marine’s conviction for strangling and attempting to sexually assault a woman at her Okinawa home in May 2024.

The U.S. military will not resume solo police patrols in Okinawa’s nightlife districts until investigators complete their review of an incident in which a military police officer slammed an American civilian to the ground outside a bar last year, a senior Marine commander said.

Ginowan city in central Okinawa found traces of “forever chemicals” in water sampled from a manhole oozing white foam near a Marine Corps airfield last month, but were well below Japan’s legal limit.

A Navy Seabee unit with historic ties to Okinawa has returned to the island to support exercises and building projects across the Indo-Pacific region.