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.

Russia’s most advanced submarine was spotted for the first time in waters near Japan, the country’s military announced Monday.

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.

A pair of Navy surveillance drones has left Okinawa after working from the island for five months, but even with their departure, drones will continue to fly from Kadena Air Base courtesy of ongoing Air Force and Marine Corps deployments.

A woman found dead in a Fukuoka hotel room was the wife of a U.S. service member, according to Japanese police and local media reports.

Three Marines were aboard a Japanese Osprey tiltrotor aircraft when it hit the ground and was damaged during a joint U.S.-Japanese exercise over the weekend.

A Japanese V-22 Osprey hit the ground during a joint exercise with US forces, according to Japan’s Joint Staff.

A Japanese court handed a suspended sentence to a U.S. Marine convicted of bringing a synthetic drug onto Okinawa through the mail.