With a lineup packed with legendary acts and fan favorites, PUNKSPRING promises two unforgettable days of high-energy, raucous performances in Osaka and Tokyo.

The USS Preble steamed past the Spratlys, disputed islands militarized by China in the South China Sea.

Grab a stick, tie a cucumber to it and try to capture this mythical water-dwelling creature at Kappabuchi Pool in Tono, a city in Iwate prefecture.

One of Nintendo’s cutest — and hungriest — game characters is causing long lines outside Japan’s oldest beef bowl chain nationwide. Now through Aug. 31, Yoshinoya is offering a special Kirby set that includes the chain’s famous gyudon — thinly sliced beef and onions atop a bed of white rice

Bikkuri Donkey is a middle-of-the-road Japanese hamburger steak chain known for going overboard from time to time. The eatery’s latest astonishment is a time-limited campaign called We Love Cheeeese.

Kotteri-fuu Ramen Pizza is a collaboration between Pizza Hut and Kyoto, Japan-based ramen chain Tenkaippin. There’s no tomato sauce on this gimmick of a pie, but you will find pretty much everything you’d expect from a product with ramen in the name.

Crew members of the USS Oklahoma and bombers shot down during World War II were among the seven service members recently accounted for by the Defense POW-MIA Accounting Agency.

Defense Department civilians with chronic health conditions can be treated once again — on a space-available basis — by on-base doctors in the Indo-Pacific region according to a new Defense Health Agency memo.

The Solomon Islands will not allow foreign navy ships to enter its ports until the government works out new procedures for arriving military vessels, the prime minister’s office said.

Rushane Joel McKoy, a U.S. civilian working for the Army and Air Force Exchange Service on Okinawa, has appealed his four-year prison sentence for attempted rape and theft convictions, a spokeswoman from Naha District Court said.