Masthead 1995
This nameplate was used in 1995
Masthead 1989
This nameplate was used in 1989

Japan

Three people bow in front of a hillside stone memorial displaying U.S. and Japanese flags, with offerings and flowers placed at its base.

Japanese neighborhood preserves memory of WWII crash and its cost

About 75 people, including approximately 30 Marines and sailors from Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, attended the annual Marukoyama Memorial Ceremony.

A young man steps out of a C-17 Globemaster II onto stairs. Above the doorway, lettering reads “U.S. Air Force” and “Spirit of Kamehameha.”

Wet but spirited Friendship Festival draws throngs to Air Force base in Tokyo

Yokota Air Base’s annual Friendship Festival drew tens of thousands of visitors to check out Air Force aircraft and other attractions.

A vintage photo from World War II showing an Army Air Forces lieutenant posing in uniform for a photo portrait.

Pentagon project seeks to ID American POWs killed in Tokyo prison fire of 1945

Nearly 80 years after a devastating fire tore through a Japanese military prison during World War II, a Defense Department agency is working to identify American prisoners of war who died in the blaze.

Three adults look at items in plastic bags that were put into a silver tube time capsule when they were children.

Yokota school unearths Pokemon, Teletubby and other millennial memories from time capsules

Former pupils visited an elementary school at Yokota Air Base in Japan to open a time capsule that was buried in 2000.

A young child is held by a woman.

The Freedom Bird Flies Again

The first refugees out of Saigon — 54 Vietnamese orphans — arrived at Yokota AB early Thursday after a dash to freedom from an increasingly nervous South Vietnamese capital. This article first appeared in the Stars and Stripes Pacific edition, April 4, 1975. It is republished unedited in its original form.

A group of Red Cross registered nurses and volunteers arrive at Yokota Air Base

Yokota Wives Volunteer. ‘Would Go on Babylift Anytime’

Nine Red Cross registered nurses and volunteers, all of them wives of Air Force men stationed in Japan, returned from a “babylift” flight carrying Vietnamese orphans to the United States and said they’d “make the trip again anytime.” This article first appeared in the Stars and Stripes Pacific edition, Apr. 9, 1975. It is republished unedited in its original form.

Atlanta Falcons defensive end Morgan Fox is helped to his feet during a youth football camp.

Military kids huddle up with NFL star Morgan Fox during pro camp in Japan

Young athletes from as far away as South Korea gathered recently at Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo for an NFL Pro Camp hosted by Morgan Fox, a defensive tackle for the Atlanta Falcons.