Shigeaki Mori, a survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bombing, was on hand recently to help unveil a plaque in the rural Japanese town of Ikachi, near Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, to commemorate the nine-member crew of the Lonesome Lady, an American B-24 Liberator that crashed 80 years ago near the end of World War II.

An accomplished Marine Corps helicopter and tiltrotor pilot — a veteran of the war in Iraq — took up his first overseas command Wednesday at the home of a Navy carrier air wing.

A “playful” online petition urging the Air Force to name Chief Master Sgt. Jeremiah Grisham as its next top enlisted leader was intended as a tribute to the airman, not a critique of the incumbent, according to the petition’s organizer.

If you’re curious about what love in a bowl of ramen tastes like, give Big Bear and Suehiro Shokudo in Iwakuni, Japan, a try.

The Defense Department has shot down a fake memo circulating online that purports to warn service members about “unauthorized use” of their uniforms on social media.

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.