Four teams intermingled with American and Japanese commissioned and noncommissioned officers faced each other during a full day of competition at Yokota Air Base’s Friendship Field.

Pacific Air Forces is recruiting volunteers for Iron Athena, a fledgling grassroots initiative focused on addressing readiness and retention barriers faced by female airmen and their families, inspired by similar “Athena” organizations throughout the Air Force.

The Air Force is retiring A-10 Thunderbolt IIs from South Korea and upgrading its F-16 Fighting Falcons there as part of a “modernization effort” across the service, a news release said.

As part of a restructuring initiative, U.S. Forces Japan is looking into appropriating an Army compound in central Tokyo as the command weighs a move from the city’s western suburbs potentially to a downtown district just a few miles from Japan’s Ministry of Defense.

About 100 young athletes from across Japan gathered at Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo over the weekend for the 45th Kanto Plains Special Olympics.

A team from California Air National Guard’s 129th Rescue Wing successfully saved a U.S. Air Force veteran who experienced stroke-like symptoms during a chartered fishing trip off the coast of San Diego early Friday morning.

Several of the iconic cherry blossom trees that make this airlift hub in western Tokyo a popular spot to visit during each spring have gone missing. 

A Pentagon agency that pioneered such technologies as four-legged robots is now giving rise to reefs made with coral and oyster colonies that it hopes will soon protect coastal military bases from deadly storm surges.

Another contingent of stealth fighters has landed at Kadena Air Base as part of a temporary plan to fill in for retiring F-15 Eagles.

Unmanned aerial vehicles from the United States and South Korea recently teamed up to improve their combat effectiveness via first-of-their-kind live-fire drills.