An explosion last month at a munitions storage facility on Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, occurred when Japanese soldiers accidentally detonated a fuse on a World War II-era anti-tank shell, Japan’s ...

TOKYO (AP) — An explosion at a storage site for unexploded ordnance at a U.S. military base on Japan’s southern island of Okinawa injured four Japanese soldiers, though the injuries are not ...

An explosion injured four men at a Japanese facility for storing unexploded bombs at a US air base in Okinawa on June 9, a fire official said, with their condition reportedly not critical. Japan ...

Chinese observers downplayed Beijing's reference to Okinawans as "indigenous", saying the comments were primarily a critique of the militarisation of Japan's southernmost prefecture - home to dozens ...

KADENA AIR BASE, Okinawa — An elementary school and a middle school at the home of the 18th Wing canceled classes Monday due to a sewer line issue that was resolved that afternoon. Department of ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Several Japanese Self-Defense Force members were injured on Monday in an explosion at an ammunition storage area inside the U.S. military's Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, southern Japan, ...

As the F-15C nears the end of its tenure at the base, the Department of Defense has chosen the F-15EX Eagle II to carry forward the mission of ensuring air superiority in Kadena. On Aug. 24, 2024, a ...

A US F-35 Lightning II fighter jet takes off from the Kadena Air Base airfield in Kadena town, west of Okinawa in Japan, 24 August 2023. 25 Missing Children Found amid ‘Extraordinary’ 3-Day Operation ...

According to eyewitnesses and TV reports from Okinawa Television, at around 10.30AM Local Time the aircraft suffered an emergency on the runway: images show the stealth aircraft being towed with its ...

Two years after the first Eagles returned to the United States, the last F-15C is now ready to leave Kadena Air Base in Japan, where the type was stationed since 1979. The United States Air Force’s ...

TOKYO (AP) — An explosion at a storage site for unexploded ordnance at a U.S. military base on Japan’s southern island of Okinawa injured four Japanese soldiers, though the injuries are not ...