Japanese police arrested an Okinawa-based Marine over the weekend on suspicion of assaulting a restaurant employee over an unpaid bill, according to a spokesman for Okinawa Prefectural Police.
Japanese troops successfully disarmed and removed a suspected World War II-era bomb from Okinawa prefecture’s capital city Sunday, according to city and military officials.
U.S. and Japanese pilots for the first time will fly Ospreys to Yonaguni Island, the Japanese territory closest to Taiwan, as part of upcoming military drills, according to a spokesman for Japan’s Joint Staff.
The Navy celebrated the USS Antietam’s 37 years of service during a decommissioning ceremony Friday at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii.
Rescuers in Nepal recovered dozens of bodies from buses and other vehicles that were buried in landslides near the capital Kathmandu, as the death toll from flooding rose to at least 148 with dozens missing, officials said Sunday.
The Biden administration’s Asia czar woke up one morning in 2022 to a long article in the local press about the U.S. running chemical and biological labs in Ukraine, a claim that Washington calls an outright lie. Started by Russia, the false and incendiary claim was vigorously amplified by China’s vast overseas propaganda apparatus.
Masamitsu Yoshioka, who was widely acknowledged as the last remaining witness to the Pearl Harbor attack from the side of the Imperial Japanese forces, died last month at the age of 106. As a bombardier, he launched a torpedo during the attack that hit the battleship USS Utah where 58 men lost their lives. “I think of the people who died because of me,” he said.
Japan’s next Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba will focus on cleaning up the ruling party’s image and forming closer security ties with Asian partners, including the prospect of forming an “Asian NATO.”
The Accident Investigation Board found that an F-16’s loss of flight and navigation instruments before a 2023 crash was prompted by the failure of an embedded GPS inertial navigation system.
The Coast Guard is part of the US military expansion on Guam.
A new Air Force gender-specific uniform for physical training features five pieces each for women and men.
Pyongyang could test a nuclear weapon or launch an intercontinental ballistic missile on the heels of the U.S. presidential election, South Korea’s spy agency recently told lawmakers, according to a local media report.
Explosive ordnance technicians from six countries helped remove more than 3,200 World War II-era bombs, shells and bullets from the Solomon Islands this month.
A Hong Kong court has sentenced a former editor of a shuttered news publication to 21 months in prison in a sedition case widely seen as an indicator of media freedom in the city, once hailed as a beacon of press freedom in Asia.
The Navy intends to significantly increase the level of training on Kauai and an uninhabited island that would exponentially step up the tempo of missile and rocket launches, amphibious and drone operations and airport use by helicopters by the joint force.
Charlee LeBlanc, a Red Cross regional program specialist and National Guard veteran, was recognized this week with the Red Cross’ Life Saving Award for Professional Responders for her actions in providing aid to a man at Camp Arifjan in Kuwait earlier this year.
Satellite imagery showed that China’s newest nuclear-powered attack submarine sank alongside a pier while under construction.
Grab a stick, tie a cucumber to it and try to capture this mythical water-dwelling creature at Kappabuchi Pool in Tono, a city in Iwate prefecture.
The first of Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 251’s planes arrived on Sept. 17 in Cherry Point, N.C., the new home of the squadron nicknamed the Thunderbolts. It was formerly based at Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort in South Carolina.