Nearly 80 years after they were captured and killed in the final days of World War II, dozens of U.S. airmen were honored with a solemn ceremony that also reckoned with the legacy of those who carried out their executions.

The Zero Hangar at Iwakuni was formally rededicated to both honor the past and underscore the present strength of the U.S.-Japan alliance.

A U.S. Space Force officer has been placed on administrative leave, pending separation, under the Defense Department’s new ban on transgender service members, ending her more than 22-year military career.

Marines at Iwakuni exterminated 279 venomous spiders over a recent three-month period, according to Yamaguchi prefecture.

A music teacher at a Defense Department school in Japan, along with American and Japanese students, has recorded an unofficial anthem for U.S. military children living overseas.

American Forces Network will officially launch FM radio service at Sasebo Naval Base on Wednesday, becoming the first AFN station in Japan outside Okinawa to broadcast on the frequency.