Pending repairs to the island airfield, the Air Force’s 18th Wing since December 2023 has made its training drops about once ...

A U.S. service member was driving drunk Thursday when he crashed a vehicle that exploded on a highway just beyond the air ...

NAHA--Increasing flights of outside military planes into U.S. Kadena Air Base are ... According to the Okinawa prefectural government, a noise level meter near the base registered 110.2 decibels ...

Dozens of U.S. and Japanese military aircraft held training around Okinawa Island in the Western Pacific Ocean.

A US Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker refueling aircraft takes off from Kadena Air Base in Okinawa Prefecture on Aug. 30, 2023. Photo: AP Beijing is also allegedly funding separatists in the region, ...

Without much fanfare, the US Marine Corps made a critical decision recently – one that should boost the ability of its ...

In Japan the Pentagon wants to replace older F-15C/D Eagles from Kadena Air Base, in Okinawa, with the more advanced F-15EX, and swap the F-16s at Misawa, in northern Japan, with 48 F-35As.

Japan has not engaged in war since World War II, maintaining a pacifist stance under its post-war constitution. However, ...

GINOWAN, Okinawa Prefecture—With the distant sea ... ahead of other U.S. military sites located south of the Kadena Air Base, and the local governments wanted the Nishi-Futenma site to become ...

The F-22 fighter aircraft were assigned to the 18th Wing, which is the host aviation unit for Kadena Air Base on Okinawa Island, the closest American air base to Taiwan. China has claimed Taiwan ...