MISAWA AIR BASE, Japan — A boom in off-base construction has helped ease a housing crunch at Misawa, base officials say. Jim Carey, Misawa base housing flight chief, said families new to ...

(T.D. Flack / S&S) MISAWA AIR BASE, Japan — Construction workers are wrapping up the first step of a multimillion-dollar project to upgrade hundreds of base housing units at Misawa.