Japan’s prime minister criticized the U.S. military response to a Marine’s arrest in an Okinawa homicide investigation Tuesday, calling a monthlong overnight curfew for American troops inadequate.

U.S. service members on Okinawa will not be prohibited from drinking alcohol during a monthlong overnight curfew that begins Friday, according to the Marine Corps.

A 48-hour alcohol ban and other restrictions imposed across U.S. military bases on Okinawa apply only to active-duty troops, the Marine Corps clarified Wednesday, adding that officials have not ruled out extending the alcohol prohibition during a subsequent 30-day curfew.

The Marine Corps will deploy two of its newest missile systems to Japan’s westernmost island — about 70 miles from Taiwan — for the first time this month during a large-scale exercise with Japanese forces.

UPDATE: The U.S. military will halt normal operations and ban alcohol on Okinawa for 48 hours, then impose a monthlong overnight curfew following the arrest of a Marine on suspicion of killing a Japanese woman at a Naha hotel.

The Army is expanding its logistics headquarters on Okinawa by about 120 personnel as part of a reorganization aimed at sustaining U.S. forces across the Western Pacific.

The Marine arrested on suspicion of killing a Japanese woman at an Okinawa hotel is a combat engineer from Ohio who joined the service two years ago, the Marine Corps announced Tuesday.

Okinawa Gov. Genta Koja called Monday for revisions to the agreement governing U.S. military personnel in Japan after a Marine was arrested on suspicion of killing a local woman at a Naha hotel.

Okinawa police arrested a U.S. Marine early Sunday on suspicion of killing a Japanese woman and stealing her belongings at a hotel in the prefectural capital.

Okinawa’s new governor has moved to dismantle the government office his predecessors used in their decade-long fight against construction of a new Marine Corps airfield and redirect efforts toward speeding the return of American military property.

Chinese research-vessel activity around Japan’s southwestern islands has more than tripled this year, with the Japan coast guard reporting 14 cases of ships conducting surveys in the country’s exclusive economic zone around Okinawa and its remote islands.

The U.S. Army will temporarily store its mid-range missile system, Typhon, and High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, or HIMARS, at Kadena Air Base on Okinawa starting in mid-October, according to Japan’s Defense Ministry.

Guam will need an estimated $11.7 billion in infrastructure and public services over the next 30 years to accommodate a growing U.S. military presence, the island’s governor said this week as she called for greater federal support.

A shortage of available homes both on and off U.S. military installations on Okinawa means some newly arriving families may spend up to three months in temporary lodging.

A Washington think tank with ties to Trump administration officials is calling for a dramatic retrenchment of U.S. military power in the Western Pacific, including ending defense alliances with Japan, South Korea, Australia and the Philippines and adopting a non-intervention policy toward Taiwan.

Nearly 90 residents of neighboring Chatan town rehearsed an evacuation to higher ground on Kadena Air Base in Okinawa on Saturday, three months after a tsunami alert prompted the base to open the same escape route for real.

A Japanese F-15 Eagle made a precautionary landing at an Air Force base on Okinawa late Wednesday after a hydraulic malfunction, the third incident involving the fighter on Okinawa in a month.

Okinawans elected their first governor in 12 years to support the controversial relocation of a Marine Corps airfield, handing former Naha Vice Mayor Genta Koja a landslide victory Sunday over two-term Gov. Denny Tamaki.

A Japanese F-15 made a precautionary landing at Okinawa’s main civilian airport Thursday, disrupting more than a dozen commercial flights in the second incident involving the aircraft there in less than a month.

The U.S. military did not confirm or deny a report that American officials identified two U.S. airfields on Okinawa as likely sources of PFAS contamination, while Japanese officials declined to discuss details of the reported exchange.