The USS John Finn completed the second reported transit of the Taiwan Strait by a U.S. warship so far this year.

The online military medical records system, MHS Genesis, was experiencing “intermittent network outages” Tuesday. Without Genesis, patients in the military health care system cannot schedule appointments or lab tests or fill prescriptions online, among other services.

Suzuki Mohei Shoten in Mito city, Ibaraki prefecture, about two hours north of Tokyo, has been making and distributing lanterns in Japan for more than 150 years.

North Korea will scrap its efforts to reunify the Korean Peninsula due to South Korea’s “collusion with foreign forces,” the country’s state-run news agency reported Sunday.

Another U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer downed two anti-ship ballistic missiles Saturday in the southern Red Sea while assisting a container ship under attack, U.S. Central Command said.

Select pieces of Monet’s work are available for viewing until Jan. 28 in the exhibit “Claude Monet: Journey to Series Paintings” at the Ueno Royal Museum in Ueno Park, Tokyo.

The U.S. 5th Air Force decorated a pair of Japanese airmen who helped evacuate two of their American counterparts after a car crash on a remote Pacific island.

Time is still ripe for a brisk hike or overnight backpacking trek on the 40 miles of Appalachian Trail that crosses this Mid-Atlantic state, mostly atop South Mountain.

Canada’s armed forces have reported a dangerous close call one of its helicopters had with Chinese fighter jets early last week in the South China Sea.

The plant, which took more than two years to build, replaces a collection of diesel generators on the Yokota Air Base. It also uses less energy to create a power supply that is more resilient to outside threats.