This year’s Tokyo Comic Con, held over the weekend at Makuhari Messe Convention Center just east of the city center, kicked off with a traditional Japanese ceremony featuring celebrity guests, including Jason Mamoa, star of “Aquaman” and the upcoming “Minecraft” movie.

This year’s Tokyo Comic Con has even more big-name celebrities and iconic movie props than ever, some on display for the first time.

Bravo Zulu Barbecue — or BZQ — at the New Sanno Hotel in Tokyo is a bold attempt to re-create American-style barbecue in central Tokyo.

Vietnam this week received the first of 12 military training aircraft scheduled for delivery through a U.S. program to strengthen partner nation militaries facing China.

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.

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. 

Yokota Middle School students and staff gathered to deliver an anti-bullying message.

An American Red Cross event at Yokota Air Base featured quake and smoke simulators, as well as info on earthquakes in Japan.

Young grocery shoppers, with worksheets and measuring tapes in hand, packed this base’s commissary Wednesday evening to apply their classroom knowledge to a real-life setting.

Two airmen stationed at this airlift hub in western Tokyo were decorated recently for saving a kayaker who spilled into a frigid Alaska lake in June.