A kitchen fire Monday evening in a residential tower at this airlift hub in western Tokyo flooded hallways and left residents wondering if the fire alarms worked.

A delayed software delivery pushed the Physical Readiness Information Management System 2, or PRIMS-2, rollout into April, the month the new physical fitness testing season began, according to a spokeswoman for the Navy Personnel Command.

The daughter of a former Air Force officer is on her way to Brown University to pursue a degree in medicine, but she didn’t take the easy path to get there.

New checkout lines at U.S. military commissaries will provide grocery shoppers a faster, more user-friendly experience, a spokesman for the Defense Commissary Agency recently told Stars and Stripes.

The Navy, as part of a move since summer 2020 to diversify its ranks, has reinstated its Baccalaureate Degree Completion Program, partly as a means of attracting officer candidates from minority communities.

Taxpayers living and working for the Defense Department in places like Japan may turn to the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance center or the legal office at their installation for reliable answers.

The new, 4,000-square-foot facility feature several big-screen televisions that will come in handy for the Super Bowl on Monday morning. The center will have the game on and snacks ready.

Luke and Kimberly Armstrong knew early in their marriage that volunteering was an interest they shared and wanted to continue.

Yokota High joins several other Defense Department schools in the Pacific in creating a club for competitive gaming. The club sponsor, computer science teacher Jamey Weare, sees it going varsity one day.

More than 100 Japan Ground Self-Defense Force soldiers assembled Thursday at Yokota, the U.S. airlift hub in western Tokyo, to gear up and board an Air Force C-130J Super Hercules. They were bound for the Camp Narashino training grounds in Chiba prefecture.

The sea service is conducting a pilot program between Jan. 2 and Sept. 30, 2026, that will provide “a full array of authorized Navy maternity uniforms” to expectant sailors at no cost to them, according to an administrative message, NAVADMIN 284/21, which lays out the details.

What started as a backyard pirate operation a year ago in the Sagamihara Housing Area at Camp Zama, the headquarters for U.S. Army Japan, has evolved into a certified recreational activity.

The Afloat Personal Telecommunications Service, or APTS, will end Dec. 31 after providing call service to personnel aboard Navy ships for more than 25 years.

Established in 1958 as a branch of Ueno Zoo in central Tokyo, this 129-acre zoo is one of the largest in the area.

A pair of C-5M Super Galaxies parked on Yokota’s ramp for about a week served up training opportunities for maintenance airmen who don’t often get to turn a wrench on the 200-ton behemoths.