You can hear Japan’s national instrument and see craftsmen build them at Tamashige Koto Workshop in Ube, about 90 minutes’ drive from Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni.

A malfunctioning indicator prompted a U.S. Air Force CV-22 aircraft to make a precautionary landing in Tochigi prefecture, according to American and Japanese officials.

A joint statement issued at the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva came hours before North Korea fired a ballistic missile off its eastern coast and about a month after China tested a nuclear-capable submarine-launched ballistic missile in the South Pacific.

An off-duty soldier is being lauded by the U.S. military for rushing to help when a tour bus flipped and began sliding down a steep incline in South Korea’s Demilitarized Zone.

Teenagers at Yokota Air Base got an early look at the realities of adult finances during a recent workshop that challenged them to turn an imaginary paycheck into a workable budget.

The Navy opened a new youth center at Ikego Hills housing area in Japan, completing one piece of a roughly $500 million construction project that is reshaping facilities around Yokosuka Naval Base.

The search involved Coast Guard, Air Force and Navy aircraft and vessels, along with Micronesian and commercial ships.

U.S. forces have begun flying emergency supplies to earthquake-stricken Japanese island, delivering bottled water to communities with damaged infrastructure, prolonged outages and extreme summer heat.

U.S. and South Korean recovery teams are searching waters off the Korean Peninsula for wreckage from three U.S. military aircraft that crashed during the Korean War.

Chan-hom makes landfall, passes just north Tokyo area late Tuesday; among a handful of tropical cyclones populating the northwestern Pacific.