Two Marine Corps aircraft on routine training flights made separate precautionary landings in Japan on Tuesday in response to cockpit warning indicators: An F-35B Lightning II fighter on Shikoku and an MV-22B Osprey west of Tokyo.

Japanese prosecutors have declined to charge a U.S. Marine accused of stealing a car, driving drunk, crashing it, and intruding into a man’s home in Iwakuni last month.

Lt. Col. Joshua Chambers never knew his great-grandfather but grew up with family bedtime stories about Col. Justice Chambers and the troops he led in 3rd Battalion, 25th Marines, during the battle of Iwo Jima.

The Chinese coast guard on Monday set a record for the longest continuous presence inside territorial waters claimed by Japan around the Senkaku Islands.

The U.S. Air Force is expected to begin deploying F-15EX Eagle II fighters to the home of the 18th Wing in spring 2026, according to the wing commander.

Japan is considering deploying an upgraded version of its Type-12 surface-to-ship missiles there at the end of the next fiscal year, Kyodo News reported Sunday, citing unnamed government sources. Japan’s fiscal year runs April 1 to March 31.

A soroban “allows students to see and manipulate a physical representation of abstract numbers,” according to The Japan Society website. Japanese third- and fourth-graders are required to practice soroban in math class, according to the education ministry’s website.

Thai naval cadets are training with U.S. sailors and the United Nations Command-Rear this week during the Thai navy’s first port call on Okinawa in more than two decades.

A fire broke out Tuesday aboard a ship towing construction materials for a new Marine Corps airfield in northern Okinawa.

Japanese troops detonated 24 suspected U.S. shells off the coast of Okinawa in the third disposal of World War II ordnance in a month.