The 18th Wing has warned its community to beware of credit and debit card fraud following reports of unexplained charges billed to cardholders who shopped at Kadena businesses.

Nearly 80 athletes gave their all during the 20th Kadena Special Olympics beneath soggy skies at this U.S. base over the weekend.

A group of Marines on a weekend snorkeling trip last month used their training and teamwork to save a Japanese woman from rough seas.

A Marine helicopter on a routine training flight was forced to make a precautionary landing Thursday in a goat pasture near the northernmost point on Okinawa.

Japan’s Osprey fleet resumed flying Thursday after investigators ruled that pilot error resulted in damage to one of the tiltrotor aircraft during a joint exercise with U.S. forces last month.

The Marine Corps will have a larger role in a joint U.S.-Japan virtual exercise scheduled for December that will focus on defending remote Indo-Pacific islands, according to Japanese officials.

Japanese ordnance disposal experts plan to defuse two suspected World War II-era bombs found last month on Miyakojima, a popular tourist spot 170 miles southwest of Okinawa.

The Defense Health Agency is warning patients about a website posing as its online military records system and patient portal, Military Health System Genesis.

Caitlyn Webber, a military spouse, self-published author and substitute teacher at Camp Foster, Okinawa, is collecting books for a book swap at Kubasaki High School.

Japanese educators from elementary schools on Okinawa recently visited Kadena Air Base to receive a crash-course in a new method of teaching. In January, their American counterparts will visit their schools to learn how Japanese classrooms are run.