80 Years of Stars and Stripes Pacific

An older man gestures with one hand as he speaks.

Would-be Japanese kamikaze pilot reflects on war and peace 80 years after WWII

A former Japanese army pilot who helped train the infamous kamikaze — flyers who deliberately crashed into their targets — is still telling his story 80 years after the end of World War II, in part to honor friends who died during the conflict.

In this black and white photo, men carry a burn victim out of an ambulance.

‘Fuji Fire’ chronicles a largely forgotten Marine Corps tragedy in Japan

A retired Marine’s new book recounts the 1979 fire that killed 13 Marines and injured more than 70 others at a U.S. military training center near the base of Mount Fuji.

Black-and-white, 1940s-era photographs lie on a table depicting an aviator in a leather jacket and helmet and a man in a military dress uniform posing with his arm around a smiling woman in white.

Great-grandson of fallen B-29 pilot makes pilgrimage to WWII crash site in Japan

Tyler Smith, a recreation planner from San Francisco, recently climbed a forested mountainside in western Tokyo to honor the memory of his great-grandfather, one of five American airmen killed when their B-29 Superfortress crashed during a World War II bombing raid over Japan.

Students and visitors look at photographs on display.

Against the odds, DODEA students stage evening of music, theater and art

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — High school students at this airlift hub in western Tokyo recently transformed their school into a gallery and a stage for

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.