North Korea Hijacs U.S. Naval Vessel 1968
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Free at last 1981
This nameplate was used in 1981

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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 folded American flag with white stars visible on blue fabric rests on top of a tan military-style hard case. The flag is ceremonially folded in the traditional triangular manner typically used for military honors and funeral services.

Isotope test reveals WWII remains found on Okinawa are likely American

Japanese scientists using an improved method of analysis recently identified a third set of remains as likely those of an American service member who fought on Okinawa during World War II.

A group of men in traditional blue and white patterned Japanese festival clothing (happi coats) carry a portable shrine (mikoshi) on their shoulders during a street festival. The scene takes place on a city street with buildings and power lines visible in the background.

Yokota airmen to shoulder base’s portable Japanese shrine for first time since 2019

For the first time in five years, airmen volunteers from Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo will shoulder a mikoshi and take part in an annual Japanese festival in Fussa, Japan.

People take photos and read signs in front of the bombed wreckage of a domed building.

Hiroshima pauses in silence to mark 80 years since world’s first atomic bombing

More than 55,000 people standing in Peace Memorial Park bowed their heads at 8:15 a.m. Wednesday, marking with silence the precise moment that the U.S. military dropped an atomic bomb on this city 80 years ago.

An elderly Japanese man wearing a white shirt, green tie and dark-rimmed glasses stands with the assistance on a cane, while another man to the right holds a microphone in front of him and a person to the left records with a video camera.

Hiroshima survivor helps mark 80 years since Lonesome Lady bomber tragedy

A plaque unveiled recently in this rural town near Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni commemorates the nine-member crew of the Lonesome Lady, a B-24 Liberator that crashed on July 28, 1945.

A large booklet that says “Armistice Agreement Maps Volume II” on the cover in black lettering and translated into Chinese and Korean.

‘Antiques Roadshow’-type find at Army base in Japan recalls Korean War armistice

Tucked away inside a cardboard box at the headquarters of U.S. Army Japan is a relic of the original armistice that ended the Korean War 72 years ago.

A man smiles at a woman in an office.

David Mazzarella, editor who championed independent military journalism at Stars and Stripes, dies at 87

Former Stars and Stripes editor David Mazzarella, whose newspaper career spanned 45 years as a reporter, editor and executive, died Thursday from complications of a fall, his obituary said.