Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force aircraft MCH-101, UP-3D, EP-3, OP-3C, and US-2 stage for capabilities demonstration at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, Feb. 27. pic.twitter.com ...

The aircraft will temporarily support flight operations at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni under Marine Aircraft ... homeported at Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan. The Unit Deployment Program has ...

The JS Akishio, a decommissioned Japanese submarine, is the centerpiece of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force museum in Kure, Japan. (Jonathan Snyder/Stars and Stripes) ...

A, one of the JMSDF’s most secretive assets, conducted its last flight at Iwakuni Air Base and retired quietly on Mar. 10, 2025, after 37 years of ...

Osprey squadrons based at Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, Japan, shown here in 2023, were among those cut as part of the Marine Corps' 2025 aviation strategy. (Hiro Komae/AP) The U.S. Marine ...

The Japan-based carrier George Washington is unlikely to deploy until April as the fixed wing aircraft of its assigned CVW-5 departs their home base of Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Iwakuni to ...

Hiroshima and Yamaguchi are within the training territory for fighter jets at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni in Yamaguchi Prefecture. The council was formed in 2013 to address the problem of ...

This enduring partnership with the government of Japan ensures that military bases are not only interoperable ... the district’s Navy, Marine Corps, Defense Logistics Agency and Environmental ...

Japan Defense Minister Gen Nakatani in a Tuesday press conference refuted reports that the improved Type 12 surface-to-ship missile will be deployed first with units on the main island of Kyushu, ...

arriving on March 8 at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni in Japan. This deployment, the first of an F-35B squadron to participate in a Marine Corps aviation rotation in the Indo-Pacific, aims to ...