At a Cabinet meeting on March 11, the Japanese government appointed Lieutenant General Nagumo Kenichiro, vice chief of staff ...

Northcutt and the Mission 22 logo are familiar sights at Yokota Air Base, the headquarters of USFJ in western Tokyo. “My whole mission is just being out there to talk to service members,” he ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba told U.S. President Donald Trump during their meeting earlier this month that Japan is willing to buy U.S. military transport airplanes for the Self-Defense Forces, ...

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — Japanese police are ... the bomb threat to American military facilities in the country, USFJ spokesman Air Force Capt. Danny Rangel said by email Friday evening.

Yokota Sakie spoke at a rally of supporters in Tokyo on Thursday. Her daughter, Megumi, was snatched by North Korean agents in 1977 at the age of 13 while on her way home from junior high school.

Following the death of Akihiro Arimoto, whose daughter Keiko Arimoto was abducted by North Korea 42 years ago, Sakie Yokota, 89, whose daughter Megumi Yokota was abducted at the age of 13, held a ...

The comment by Yokota Sakie follows the death on Saturday of Arimoto Akihiro at age 96. Arimoto died without ever being reunited with his daughter, Keiko, who was abducted by North Korea in 1983.

The younger brother of Megumi Yokota, an iconic victim among Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea decades ago, welcomed the outcome of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's first summit with U.S.