Hana Kusumoto is a reporter/translator who has been covering local authorities in Japan since 2002. She was born in Nagoya, ...

During a joint press conference in Tokyo on March 30, 2025, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that the Defense ...

A federal hiring freeze is affecting an office that provides mental health support to airmen and their families at Yokota Air Base.

The United States has taken the first step toward upgrading its military operation in Japan to a joint force headquarters, ...

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A U.S. Space Command opened at the U.S. Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo on Dec. 4 to strengthen Japan-U.S. cooperation in monitoring North Korean missile launches and China’s increasing activit ...

It was spotted at Yokota Air Base near Tokyo. This spy plane was the ... Airman 1st Class Jeremiah Johnson/U.S. Air National Guard Both Japan and South Korea are American allies.

Furthermore, the model deployed to the Yokota base is the CV22, the type used by the Air Force, and Japan's Defense Ministry has found it to have a higher accident rate than other varieties.

The Asahi Shimbun recently ran a truly spine-chilling story that began at the U.S. Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo ... on and insights into contemporary Japan and its culture.