Navy Commander, Executive Officer of Japan-Based Ship Repair Facility Relieved The Navy has relieved both the commanding officer and his deputy, the executive officer, from their posts leading the U.S...
DoD Launches Program to Help Employees Who Have Had Trouble Getting Health Care in Japan After a yearlong review by the Pentagon, Tricare's overseas contractor will create a call center to assist civilian employees...
Marine Corps' Unmanned 'Narco-Boat' Is Now Plying the Waters Around Okinawa The Marine Corps' new uncrewed, semi-submersible vessel -- dubbed the "narco-boat" -- arrived in Japan earlier this month as...
A-Bomb Survivors Use Nobel Peace Prize to Share Anti-Nuke Message With the Young Efforts to document the survivors' stories and voices have grown in recent years around Japan, including in Hiroshima...
Troops in Japan Banned from Late-Night Drinking After String of Alleged Sexual Assaults on Okinawa The U.S. military's commander in Japan has finally tightened the rules around drinking for all troops stationed in the...
Japanese Warplanes Use Flares to Warn a Russian Spy Plane to Leave Airspace Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara told reporters that the Russian Il-38 plane breached Japan’s airspace above Rebun...
Air Force Ospreys Set to Again Deploy Abroad After Deadly Crash, But Concerns Linger on Mechanical Issues The news comes less than a year after a deadly November CV-22 Osprey crash in Japan that claimed the lives of eight airmen.
North Korea Test-Fired Ballistic Missiles in Latest Military Display, Neighbors Say North Korea test-fired multiple ballistic missiles toward its eastern seas, the South Korean and Japanese militaries said...
Okinawa Governor Blasts US Military's Lack of Transparency in Sharing Alleged Crimes by Troops Denny Tamaki told a gathering of reporters in Washington, D.C., that the incidents -- three in total revealed this summer --...
Japan and Australia Agree to Increase Joint Military Training Japan and Australia agreed to increase joint military training exercises as their government ministers shared concerns over...
'The Greatest Soldier in American History' Took a Tank Round to the Leg and Kept Fighting The only reason Matt Urban didn't receive the Medal of Honor for single-handedly breaking an entire battalion through France...
4th US Soldier's Body Recovered from Lithuanian Swamp The Army has not released the names of the soldiers pending notification of the next of kin. The bodies of the other three...
How Comic Legend Mel Brooks Defused Land Mines During World War II Brooks participated in the Battle of the Bulge -- Germany's final major offensive on the Western Front -- but to his...
Pentagon Civilians Again Told They Can Resign Now, or Face Potential Firings in the Future Hegseth signed a memo Friday to restart a deferred resignation program that emerged out of billionaire Elon Musk's "Fork in...
A Gulf War Veteran Convicted of Killing His Girlfriend and 3 Children Is Set for Execution Jeffrey Hutchinson, 59, is set to die by lethal injection May 1 at Florida State Prison near the city of Starke. DeSantis, a...