Tag: Japan

As police descended upon the apartment of Takahiro Shiraishi in Japan’s Kanagawa Prefecture, following up a lead provided by the brother of a 23-year-old missing woman, they may have been prepared for the possibility that the young woman was already dead.  She had begun interacting with Shiraishi on Twitter after posting about wanting to find […]

A crew chief assigned to the 374th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron walks on the flight line during Exercise Beverly Morning 17-06 at Yokota Air Base, Japan, Oct. 26, 2017. – US Department of Defense Air Force photo by Yasuo Osakabe

After attending the 49th annual Security Consultative Meeting with South Korean Minister of National Defense Song Young-moo in Seoul on Friday, American Secretary of Defense James Mattis spoke to the press about the most pressing threat in the region, North Korea. In his statements, Mattis drew a clear line in the sand in terms of […]

Japanese media has released details into an apparent tunnel collapse in North Korea’s nuclear test site that is believed to have killed as many as 200 people. In a report made on Tuesday, Japanese TV Asahi claimed that some 100 people were trapped or killed in an initial collapse that occurred days after North Korea’s […]

Two American women who had been lost at sea for five months were rescued by the U.S. Navy’s Sasebo-based amphibious dock landing ship USS Ashland (LSD 48) some 900 miles southeast of Japan on Wednesday. The mariners, Jennifer Appel and Tasha Fuiaba, as well as their two dogs, had been en route to Tahiti from […]

What happened here???: WASHINGTON — Navy criminal authorities are investigating whether two members of the Navy’s elite SEAL Team 6 strangled to death an Army Green Beret on assignment in Mali in June, military officials say. Staff Sgt. Logan J. Melgar, a 34-year-old veteran of two deployments to Afghanistan, was found dead on June 4 […]

Many think President Trump is mobilizing for an attack on North Korea. In recent days there have been stories of nuclear capable B-52’s possibly being put on 24 hour alert for the first time since 1991, a dozen F-35’s deploying to Japan and now word of three aircraft carriers in the waters near North Korea. USS […]

As the North Korean threat seems to increase on a daily basis the US is sending 12 F-35’s to Japan. The U.S. Air Force has announced that it will send its version of the advanced F-35 stealth fighter jet to Okinawa’s Kadena Air Base next month in the first such deployment to the Asia-Pacific region. The […]

As the North Korean threat seems to increase on a daily basis the US is sending 12 F-35’s to Japan. The U.S. Air Force has announced that it will send its version of the advanced F-35 stealth fighter jet to Okinawa’s Kadena Air Base next month in the first such deployment to the Asia-Pacific region. […]

In talks held between senior defense officials from Japan, South Korea and the United States on Monday, it wasn’t American Defense Secretary James Mattis urging an escalation of defensive posture in the face of the North Korean threat, but rather his Japanese Counterpart. Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera told officials from the two allied nations […]

In September, we reported on Eagle Prime, America’s massive 12-ton battle robot designed and built specifically to do battle with Japan’s own battle-mech, Kuratas. America’s robot, which was touted as bigger and more powerful than its Japanese opponent, even got its own hype reel, with dramatic footage of it targeting old cars with its weapon […]

Local media in Japan’s Okinawa Prefecture have reported the crash of a helicopter today, just before noon local time.  According to the Okinawa Times, the CH-53 went down near Takae.  Local emergency personnel were called.  So far, there have been no reports of any fatalities, though the Okinawa Times article did mention U.S. personnel on their […]