Japan

Water fixtures at the Navy’s Ikego Elementary School in Japan have again registered high levels of lead, though officials say families thus far appear to be unaffected following voluntary blood testing.

Misawa has welcomed winter with a spike in traffic accidents, safety officials said.

Last week’s heavy snows were the first big challenge this winter for workers tasked with keeping the pavement clear at Misawa.

Most U.S. military bases in Japan should be spared from major snowstorms expected across the country through Thursday night, according to weather officials.

So I was walking down the street late last Saturday night, checking out the bar scene with some friends, when I uttered the following: "Dude, did anyone else just see two gorillas walk around that corner?"

While the world focuses on the devastation in Haiti, millions of people in Japan — including tens of thousands of U.S. troops and their families — sit on their own seismic time bomb.