Washington – U.S. President Joe Biden on Sunday congratulated the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, or Nihon Hidankyo, on being selected the winner of this year’s Nobel …
A U.S. military helicopter made an emergency landing on a beach in Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Thursday, with no reports of injuries or damage to the aircraft. The aircraft — …
The new commander of U.S. forces stationed in Japan pledged on Tuesday his relentless effort to make the bilateral alliance more solid. “I will do all within my abilities and …
Naha – Prosecutors in Okinawa Prefecture on Friday indicted a U.S. Marine for alleged sexual assault resulting in injury. On Sept. 5, the Okinawa Prefectural Police sent papers on Michael …
Nago, Okinawa Pref. – While protesters demand the cancellation of full-scale U.S. base relocation work on the Oura Bay side of the Henoko coastal district in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, some …
Washington – Japan, the United States and South Korea are considering holding a trilateral summit by the end of this year, Mira Rapp-Hooper, senior director for East Asia and Oceania …
Hiroshima – U.S. scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer, known as the “father of the atomic bomb,” apologized to Japanese atomic bomb survivors who visited the United States after the end of …
The Defense Ministry said Friday that the Self-Defense Forces will participate in the U.S. military’s Valiant Shield large-scale exercise for the first time. SDF bases will be used also for …
The U.S. military’s Yokota Air Base in a western suburb of Tokyo was opened to the public in a two-day event through Sunday, with an Air Force CV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor …
Washington – U.S. foreign policy figures have not opposed the idea of Japan lifting its own sanctions against North Korea if the reclusive state returns all Japanese nationals it abducted …