From the Archives
DMZ ambush survivors seen lucky to be alive
Observers at the scene of Sunday night's bold ambush by Communist North Koreans who machine-gunned and killed four United Nations Command soldiers reached one conclusion: "I don't see how anybody survived this."
Weather girl wows Saigon
Vietnam's most talked-about TV personality these days is a blue-eyed blonde named Bobbie, the Armed Forces Television weather girl currently weathering her debut in front of TV cameras.
Marine air station in Japan to restart air show silenced by COVID-19 pandemic
Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni’s 44th Friendship Day is scheduled for April 15 in conjunction with Fleet Air Wing 31 of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, which shares the base south of Hiroshima with the U.S. Navy Carrier Air Wing 5 and the Marine Corps’ Marine Aircraft Group 12.
Masks optional: Japan’s new, relaxed COVID-19 guidelines take effect Monday
New mask guidelines from the government take effect Monday, three years after face coverings became a universal fashion accessory across the country.
3 things I’ve learned since living through the pandemic
In the past three years, we’ve experienced widespread human loss, skyrocketing mental health issues, the miraculous development of vaccines and the permanence of COVID in our lives. Through these traumas and trials, I’ve identify three ways that the pandemic experience has changed me, for better and for worse.
Health care providers, first responders for US Forces Korea receive coronavirus vaccine
The Moderna vaccine, one of two approved for emergency use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in mid-December, was also administered at Osan and Kunsan air bases in South Korea.
COVID-19 threat fades as Japan downgrades disease, officially ends restrictions
Japan marked the end of an era Monday by declaring COVID-19 a disease on par with influenza, dealing an end to years of restrictive public measures designed to curb its spread.