A 53-aircraft exercise put US military airpower on display in Japan earlier this week. Fighter jets, rescue helicopters, and spy planes taxiied the runway at Kadena Air Base. The massive aircraft ...

Kadena Air Base is on the Japanese island of Okinawa, sandwiched between Japan and Taiwan in the East China Sea. Its proximity makes it the closest military outpost to Taiwan, a self-governed ...

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The T-4 training jet, belonging to the Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF), lost contact just two minutes after departing from Komaki Air Base in Aichi ... near Torishima Island, about 600 ...

In addition to the U.S. Marine Corps' F-35B aircraft, Japan currently hosts the F-35A jets operated by the U.S. Air Force at Kadena Air Base on the southwestern island of Okinawa, as well as the F ...

Phelan, during his trip to Japan on ... and Miyako Island to enter the Philippine Sea. A JMSDF P-3C Orion maritime patrol aircraft from Fleet Air Wing 5 based at Naha Air Base, Okinawa, shadowed ...

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — A Defense Department inspector general’s audit faulted this U.S. airlift hub in western Tokyo for mishandling toxic substances, including chemicals from firefighting ...

The U.S. Air ... in Japan, in an apparent display of combat power and regional deterrence. A total of 53 aircraft participated in the traditional showing this week at Kadena Air Base in Okinawa ...

operated by the Japan Air Self-Defense Force, or JASDF, and carrying two service members, crashed into a reservoir Wednesday, minutes after taking off from Komaki Air Base in the central Japanese ...

Two crew are missing after the T-4 training aircraft operated by the Japan Air Self-Defense Force crashed after taking off from Komaki Air Base, in the central Japanese prefecture of Aichi ...