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 ...

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 ...

The tour began with a presentation about base capabilities ... of the island that doesn't have radar, explained a transport pilot from the 52nd Transport Squadron of Caledonian Air Force after ...

(U.S. Air Force photo) Misawa Air Base is a vast facility located near the northern tip of Honshu, Japan’s largest island, around 425 miles north of Tokyo. The base is used both by the Japan Air ...

It conducted a circuit before turning back and passing between Yonaguni Island and Taiwan again ... fighter aircraft from the Southwest Air Defense Command of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force ...

The airfield at North Field Air Base on the ... The island was used as a launching point for B-29 bombers during WWII, contributing to missions targeting Imperial Japan to include the ‘Enola ...

the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF)’s Naha Air Base, and Yonaguni Island, the nation’s westernmost “border island.” The “Air Fortress” in the Nansei Islands Region The JASDF ...

Ryan Chan is a Newsweek reporter based in Hong Kong, where he previously had over a decade of experience at a local newspaper, covering China and current events around the world. His focus is on ...

Bad weather and a chronic labour shortage will delay the completion of an air base on a remote Japanese island by three years, Japan’s Ministry of Defence (MOD) says. Work on the Air Self-Defense ...

Japan is also worried about joint military activities between China and Russia. A Chinese survey ship violated Japanese territorial waters off a southern island in August. In September ...

The United States sent another group of stealth fighter jets to an allied island ... States Air Force F-35A Lightning II fighter jets park under a shelter at Kadena Air Base in Japan on November ...