The U.S. Marine Corps has returned its MV-22 Osprey aircraft on Okinawa to flight status nearly four months after a deadly crash off Japan grounded all tiltrotors in the U.S. and Japanese militaries.
A Japanese court on Friday sentenced a U.S. Marine to a suspended, two-year prison term for assaulting two Japanese people, one a 76-year-old woman, in November.
Former Marine Catherine Arnett, who spent 113 days in the brig and was eventually discharged for refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine in 2022, was arrested earlier this month for attempting to return to her duty station in Japan, according to Stars and Stripes. Arnett's case became a cause célèbre .
Japanese police on Okinawa are looking for the driver of a car with license plates assigned to U.S. forces who collided with another car, injuring five people, and then fled the scene.