Mageshima is located in the narrow Osumi Strait, one of the few waterways used by the Chinese navy to gain access to the ...

Friends and families of service members celebrated the return of Carrier Air Wing 5 to Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, ...

Troops carried out multiple mock hydrogen bomb drills in the early 1970s, potentially for use against the Soviet Union or ...

E-2D Advanced Hawkeye airborne early warning aircraft land at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, after a deployment ...

U.S. Marine Corps F-35B Lighting II fighter jets are training at Air Station Iwakuni, Japan in a bilateral show-of-force. The deployment is designed to reassure U.S. allies in the region against ...

The carrier’s arrival closed out its first annual deployment since its return to Japan in November 2024. Previously homeported in Yokosuka from 2008 to 2015, the George Washington subsequently spent ...

As relations with China continue to deteriorate, Japan is embarking on its biggest military buildup in at least four decades.

The Japanese Ministry of Defense announced plans for a squadron at Chitose Air Base to transition from the F-15J to the F-35A. The Japanese Ministry of Defense (MoD) has announced plans for a squadron ...

Japan and Germany are strengthening their militaries as they seek to increase defense readiness amid tensions with larger ...

Kathi Hayashi, president and education chair for the 100th Infantry Battalion Veterans, receives a Japan Foreign Minister’s ...