The Marine Corps may finish runway repair work in the fall at an offshore airfield at the center of a dispute with Okinawa prefecture over parachute training at Kadena Air Base.

Japanese troops exploded 461 U.S.-made shells off the coast on Thursday, the latest in a continuing stream of World War II leftovers that turn up on the former island battleground.

A Kadena High School student died Monday in a vehicle accident that injured another student at the home of the 18th Wing.

A U.S. airman was arrested Monday on suspicion of driving under the influence and rear-ending another vehicle on the Okinawa Expressway, injuring the driver, according to Japanese police.

A Russian intelligence-gathering ship spent more than a week in waters near Japan’s southern islands, including Okinawa and Kyushu, the country’s military announced Monday.

U.S. Navy sailors and Japanese emergency responders conducted training at a Navy port on Friday to rehearse their response to a simulated crash of a P-8 Poseidon aircraft with casualties outside a military base on Okinawa.

Researchers found high concentrations of toxic “forever chemicals” in seawater offshore Okinawa in 2023, suggesting this critical U.S. installation may be the source, according to a recently released study.

Several U.S. Navy aircraft were diverted to other airfields in Japan after an E/A-18G Growler made a precautionary arrested landing at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, the Marine Corps said.

Japanese troops last week defused another American-made shell believed to be left over from World War II and removed it from an Okinawa construction site.

The 18th Civil Engineer group is conducting “deliberate inspections” of the quadplex units in Kadena’s Washington Heights neighborhood, an 18th Wing spokeswoman said.