Nixon Goes 1974
This nameplate was used in 1974
Word Said it all "God Bless America" 1973
This nameplate was used in 1973

Japan

The ruins of a tsunami-damaged building sit near Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.

15 years after Fukushima nuclear disaster, recovery continues in a changed landscape

Nature is reclaiming abandoned buildings in the exclusion zone surrounding Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, an area that appears frozen in time 15 years after disaster struck.

Mother Teresa accepts a gift from a child during her visit to Tokyo in April, 1981.

Mother Teresa critical of Japan on abortions

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mother Teresa Friday criticized the "terrible number of abortions" in Japan, and said that an affluent nation permitting so many abortions "must be a poor country."

Boats surround a Japan Air Lines DC-8 that crashed in a shallow part of Tokyo Bay while landing at Haneda International Airport in February, 1982, killing 24 of the 166 passengers and crew on board as the fuselage split in two.

In minutes ... rescue ... death

From the distance, about 300 yards away, the DC-8 looked like an exploded cigar.

Evangelist Billy Graham conducts a Sunday service at Yokota Air Base in January, 1994.

Yokota prays with Billy Graham

Yokota Air Base worshiped with Billy Graham Sunday.

A bit wobbly but easy method of crossing ravines and rivers is this three rope bridge. An instructor shows the proper way of crossing.

Army alpinists

DURING A FOUR-WEEK course at what is probably the toughest school in Japan, men scale cliffs using only finger and toe holds, leap off into space from dizzying heights in practice falls and climb over mountains with full packs in pitch darkness.

Search-and-rescue swimmers from Atsugi-based HS-14 are hoisted into their helicopter during annual SAR jump training outside Yokosuka Naval Base.

AWs are ‘pretty versatile’ sailors

Seawater sprays from the helicopter rotor wash as figures drop from the aircraft into the murky water.

The keel of the Midway makes a rare appearance.

Flattop getting facelift in dry dock at Yokosuka

Though its crew proudly remembers the aircraft carrier Midway as the queen bee of the U.S. 7th Fleet, the vessel looks more like a beached whale nowadays.