Four Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force members were injured Monday after a piece of military ordnance went off at the U.S.

U.S. military personnel gather near the site of an explosion at a storage site for unexploded ordnance at Kadena Air Base on Okinawa on Monday. (Kyodo News via AP) TOKYO — An explosion at a storage ...

The deployment is meant to buttress Kadena Air Base’s defenses. Kadena, a U.S. base on a Japanese island in the Ryukyu Islands, is just 400 miles from mainland China and borders the East China Sea.

In November, Kadena Air Base staged a 33-aircraft elephant walk, showing off the expanding types of aircraft being rotated through the important base. That display included then recently arrived F ...

As the F-15C nears the end of its tenure at the base, the Department of Defense has chosen the F-15EX Eagle II to carry forward the mission of ensuring air superiority in Kadena. On Aug. 24, 2024 ...