YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan — Japanese police arrested a Tokyo man on suspicion of using a forged U.S. military ID to gain entry to the Navy’s largest overseas installation in October.

More than 70 pets brought to South Korea by U.S. service members failed to meet import requirements over the past year — lapses that led to long quarantines, unexpected costs and, in some cases, animals being sent back to the Unites States.

American Forces Network is ending its eight-channel satellite television service for U.S. military personnel living off base across Europe and Asia.

A Marine infantryman died Jan. 30 at the Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center in Bridgeport, Calif., a Marine spokesman said Thursday.

YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan — Military and civilian personnel expecting to live outside this installation south of Tokyo may have to wait a month or more for a vacancy due to a severe shortage of military-approved housing.

JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii — Soldiers from four explosive ordnance teams spent the week on Oahu vying to represent the Pacific theater in the all-Army EOD Team of the Year competition in April.

Commercial fishermen on a remote Japanese island say the Japan coast guard has urged them to avoid fishing near the disputed Senkaku Islands ever since November comments by their prime minister increased tensions between Beijing and Tokyo.

A U.S. Marine who fell overboard into the Caribbean Sea while deployed on the amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima was declared dead this week after a three-day search, according to the Marine Corps.

Two U.S. Navy fast-attack submarines surfacing side by side off Guam — a rare sight for vessels designed to remain unseen — has drawn attention online and prompted discussion about undersea signaling in the Indo-Pacific.

A South Korean brigadier general has become the first South Korean woman to serve as a deputy commander of the 2nd Infantry Division, the only U.S. Army division that integrates troops from another country into its ranks.

Four Chinese coast guard vessels entered Japan’s territorial waters near the disputed Senkaku Islands this week, marking the second such incursion this year amid ongoing tensions between Tokyo and Beijing.

A multiagency search continued Wednesday in rough waters around Guam for a 22-year-old man swept beyond the reef line off Tanguisson Beach while swimming the previous evening, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.

OSAN AIR BASE, South Korea — U.S. and South Korean fighters launched Monday from this base south of Seoul for a scaled-up round of aerial combat training that will feature fewer drills but significantly more flights and participating forces, according to the South’s Ministry of National Defense.

A new report from a U.S. foreign policy think tank is urging Washington to renegotiate a decades-old agreement with Japan to reduce the Marine Corps presence on Okinawa, arguing that the deal should instead be reversed to strengthen deterrence against China.

China and South Korea have discussed resuming joint maritime search-and-rescue drills that have been suspended for about 15 years, according to the South’s Ministry of National Defense.

CAMP COURTNEY, Okinawa — An infantry officer with experience in Okinawa, Italy, Iraq and Afghanistan has taken command of the Marine Corps’ only permanently deployed expeditionary brigade.

Heavy snowfall is forecast across parts of Japan this weekend, prompting warnings about avalanches, hazardous travel conditions and increased risks for skiers and snowboarders.

SAPPORO, Japan — Short on experience but not creativity, a U.S. Navy snow-sculpting team leaned into a playful design that’s got some people humming a popular Beatles tune at this city’s annual Snow Festival.

U.S. sailors recently joined American and Japanese civilian employees to mark Sasebo Naval Base’s 80th anniversary, gathering to form the number 80 for a commemorative photo at the installation in southern Japan.

JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii — Shortly after Matthew Lohmeier became undersecretary of the Air Force in July, the former fighter pilot was briefed about the U.S. airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities that took place just weeks earlier.

NAHA, Okinawa — A U.S. airman convicted of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl on Okinawa is facing a civil trial after objecting to a court order requiring him to pay the victim about $17,500.

EDITOR'S PICK | You could say Leo Plummer, an Air Force technical sergeant who works at the U.S. airlift hub in western Tokyo, kept a family tradition alive.

The Defense Department continued its long-running string of appearances at the Singapore Airshow by sending four aircraft and the U.S. Air Force Band of the Pacific to participate in the event this week.

FORT SHAFTER, Hawaii — The Hawaii-based 25th Infantry Division heads to the Philippines next month for its part in U.S. Army Pacific’s annual Operation Pathways training engagements with that nation’s armed forces. Just don’t call them “exercises.”

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — A newly promoted lieutenant general will take command of 5th Air Force in Tokyo, a role that until recently was held by the head of U.S. Forces Japan but has now been split as the command expands into a broader mission.

KADENA TOWN, Okinawa — Local leaders lodged complaints this week after U.S. forces carried out parachute training at Kadena Air Base for the first time since the primary offshore training site reopened late last year.

OSAN AIR BASE, South Korea — F-16 “super squadrons” stationed 50 miles from North Korea completed a five-day surge of high-tempo flight operations last week, testing their ability to rapidly generate combat airpower in a potential crisis on the Korean Peninsula.

SAGAMIHARA, Japan — A U.S. soldier and an Army spouse recently teamed up to rescue a pajama-clad preschooler from a busy street near the headquarters of U.S. Army Japan.

Japan’s highest court has upheld a U.S. airman’s conviction for kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl just over two years ago on Okinawa.

The Defense Department is “near a final agreement” with Scouting America to continue providing support from the U.S. military, provided the organization “implements the common-sense, core value reforms,” the department’s chief spokesman said Monday on social media.

TOKYO — The defense ministers for Japan and South Korea, facing common challenges from North Korea, agreed last week to resume naval search-and-rescue exercises paused nine years ago as part of improving defense cooperation.

The Defense Department approved a $2.8 billion, 11-year hybrid contract with Boeing to modify F-15K Slam Eagle fighters for the South Korean air force, the Pentagon announced Friday.

Prescription copayments paid by some military families living far from military health facilities will soon be waived under a change to the Tricare insurance program.

A South Korean military transport plane bound for Saudi Arabia made an emergency landing at a Japanese airport on Okinawa after the crew detected engine trouble, according to South Korea’s air force.

The old scissors remain straight and sharp in the hands of 84-year-old retired barber Harumi Aketo. He cut hair for more than 60 years, including nearly two decades in a small, second-floor barbershop that was shuttered late last year on a U.S. Army base in central Tokyo.

A city in central Okinawa will test its water for “forever chemicals” after residents discovered a white foam oozing from a manhole near a Marine Corps airfield on Thursday.

The 8th Fighter Wing is investigating the cause of a recent 11,000 gallon fuel leak at Kunsan Air Base in South Korea.

MARINE CORPS AIR STATION IWAKUNI, Japan — Tangerines, naval oranges and clementines are familiar fruits for many American children, often eaten on soccer sidelines and in school cafeterias. Students at this U.S. base near Hiroshima are getting a taste of a local alternative, the Japanese mikan.

FORT SHAFTER, Hawaii — The Hawaii Army National Guard dedicated a memorial Wednesday on the state’s Big Island honoring the 26 guardsmen aboard a transport boat sunk by a Japanese torpedo while near Maui in January 1942.

The bill, proposed Aug. 29, promotes the peaceful use of the DMZ, a heavily fortified strip of land about 2½ miles wide and 160 miles long separating North and South Korea.

Japan tracked four Chinese warships transiting a strategic waterway near Okinawa this week, a move that followed U.S.-Philippine military drills near a contested South China Sea atoll that drew complaints from Beijing.

NAHA, Okinawa — A Japanese court has awarded about $16.3 million to Okinawans affected by Kadena Air Base aircraft noise, the latest ruling in a long-running series of lawsuits over noise from U.S. military airfields on the island.

EDITOR'S PICK | The friendly faced military working dog that greets users on the login page for the Department of Defense Global Directory has officially become a veteran.

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — You could say Leo Plummer, an Air Force technical sergeant who works at this airlift hub in western Tokyo, kept a family tradition alive.

The U.S. Navy has marked Spiritual Awareness Month on a global scale for the first time, an initiative aimed at supporting sailors of all beliefs, including those who find meaning through community rather than organized religion.

A general with 35 years of experience that includes combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan has been tapped to lead the Marine Corps’ operations in Japan.

North Korea fired four missiles from an improved version of a large-caliber multiple rocket launcher in a test overseen Tuesday by leader Kim Jong Un, according to the state-run news agency.

Reconnaissance Marines had four run-ins with bears during recent parachute training in northern Japan, according to the commander of an Alaska-based U.S. Army battalion.

A Pentagon undersecretary met with South Korea’s defense minister this week to discuss alliance priorities, including the transfer of wartime operational control and Seoul’s plans to pursue nuclear-powered submarines.

A U.S. Navy warship made a port call this week at a Cambodian naval base whose recent expansion was largely paid for by China.