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.

Uber, the ride-hailing service common in the United States but less so in Japan, is taking to the streets of Tokyo for a test drive.

Hundreds show up at various events at bases designed to remember the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and honor those who died in them.

Japan’s second largest convenience store chain, in a bid for more of the country’s tourist trade, recently asked its employees to wear badges indicating the languages they speak.

The first blood drive sponsored by the U.S. military in a decade on Japan’s main island collected 173 pints of blood from 182 donors this week at Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo.

Two members of the 12th Marine Littoral Regiment are the first in the Marine Corps to be promoted at a Japanese army base on Ishigaki, 150 miles west of Taiwan.

Japan’s infamous summer heat claimed 22 lives and pushed past 10,000 heatstroke cases in a single week for the first time, according to Japanese media reports.

Balloons carrying trash from North Korea fell Wednesday on the South Korean presidential compound and Yongsan Garrison in Seoul.