Some people living at Kadena Air Base on Okinawa sheltered in place for about an hour after unexploded ordnance was ...

Gen. Ken Wilsbach, then-Pacific Air Forces commander, returns from a flight at Kadena Air Base, Japan, April 17, 2023. Wilsbach had been slated for retirement but is now nominated to be the next Air ...

An attendee of America Fest 2025 takes a photo of a U.S. Marine Corps MQ-9A MUX/MALE unmanned aircraft with Marine Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Squadron 3, Marine Aircraft Group 24, 1st Marine Aircraft ...

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — Okinawa prefecture and two towns adjacent to Kadena Air Base have made formal protests to U.S. and Japanese authorities after an F-15E Strike Eagle landed at the base with a ...

An F-15E Strike was flying from Diego Garcia to Kadena when it was discovered that a wheel was missing. A U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle conducted an emergency landing on Aug. 4, 2025, at Kadena ...

Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan, plans to conduct safety inspections of all its F-15E Strike Eagles after one fighter was forced to land without a wheel. (Staff Sgt. Gary Hilton/Air Force) Kadena ...

A US Air Force F-15EX Eagle II of the 85th Test and Evaluation Squadron lands at Kadena Air Base, Japan, on 16 July 2025. (US Air Force/Airman Nathaniel Jackson) The US Air Force (USAF) has deployed ...

Two F-15EXs of the 85th Test and Evaluation Squadron are conducting integration and familiarization training with local units ahead of the delivery of the jet in 2026. The U.S. Air Force has announced ...

The United States has sent advanced versions of the F-15 fighter jet to Kadena Air Base in Japan as part of efforts to respond to China's growing threat. The U.S. Air Force's 18th Wing—the host unit ...

Katsuko Pohorecki, age 85, passed away peacefully at home, surrounded by loved ones, in Irvine, CA, on June 15, 2025. She had fought courageously during a long battle with cancer. Katsuko was born in ...

TOKYO (AP) — An explosion at a storage site for unexploded ordnance at a U.S. military base on Japan’s southern island of Okinawa injured four Japanese soldiers, though the injuries are not ...