A CH-53E Super Stallion from Marine Corps Air Station Futenma’s 1st Marine Aircraft Wing made an emergency landing Wednesday at a remote island airport off the Okinawa coast, Marine Corps and Japanese officials said.

Nicholas Burns, a former senior State Department official and diplomat with decades of experience in Washington and overseas, testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at a time when the Biden administration is trying to swing U.S. focus overseas to managing competition with China. The post of China ambassador stands to be one of the most important for U.S. foreign policy.

Forty volunteers from the U.S. military community are mingling with the world’s top professional golfers at only the second PGA Tour event to be held in Japan.

A Navy pipeline failed two leak detection tests in January, just prior to the start of a contentious contested case hearing before the state Department of Health over the Navy's Red Hill permit. Navy officials didn't report the failures to state health officials for another three months, according to a June letter from the Health Department to the Navy.

Wang Junzheng, 58, was given the top party position in Tibet, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Tuesday, promoted from party chief of a powerful economic and paramilitary organization accused of human rights abuses in the far western region.

The Japanese government is becoming increasingly concerned about North Korea's improved missile technology as Pyongyang continues to launch missiles with irregular trajectories that are difficult to intercept. If its submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs) become deployable, it will pose a serious threat to Japan, the United States and other allies.

Individuals who live in so-called red districts may conduct routine business but should minimize their activities to avoid contracting or spreading the virus, USFK said.

The missile was successfully launched from an older submarine Tuesday and included “lots of advanced control guidance technologies,” the state-run Korean Central News Agency said in a statement.

The Japan Air Self-Defense Force launched fighters 187 times between July 1 and Sept. 30 to intercept approaching Chinese drones, fighters, bombers and surveillance planes.

B-1B bombers and about 200 airmen deployed recently to the island of Diego Garcia in the center of the Indian Ocean, the first time Lancer have operated there in over 15 years, the Air Force said Tuesday.