Athletes will need to be vaccinated — or face a long quarantine — take tests daily and wear masks when not competing or training. Clapping is OK to cheer on teammates, not chanting. Anyone who tests positive for COVID-19 will be sent into isolation and unable to compete until cleared for discharge.

Taiwan on Friday commissioned new navy minelayers to add to its defenses against giant rival China.

The U.S. military population on Friday finished its fifth day of a 14-day stay-at-home order aimed at curbing the coronavirus surge in Japan.

Jamaica Eblacas, 30, was found guilty of killing the boy, Noa Calhoun, the son of Army Pvt. James and Kourtney Calhoun, by a three-judge panel at the Pyeongtaek Branch of the Suwon District Court.

An Army noncommissioned officer who broke her neck and back in a luge crash at the PyeongChang Olympics will slide for her country again at next month’s Winter Olympics in Beijing.

More than 100 Japan Ground Self-Defense Force soldiers assembled Thursday at Yokota, the U.S. airlift hub in western Tokyo, to gear up and board an Air Force C-130J Super Hercules. They were bound for the Camp Narashino training grounds in Chiba prefecture.

The U.S. Navy has canceled plans for a port call by one of its warships on Japan’s northernmost island amid a nationwide spike in coronavirus cases.

President Joe Biden announced Thursday that he has ordered a new deployment of some 120 active-duty military medical troops into hospitals overwhelmed with coronavirus patients in six states as the United States faces its highest-ever spike in cases and hospitalizations.

Residents of a Hawaii housing complex are asking a judge to stop their landlord from charging them rent until their tap water is safe from contamination.