Retired Army Gen. Robert Abrams, the former commander of U.S. Forces Korea, has joined the “green” rocket engine manufacturer Vaya Space as a senior adviser, according to a company news release Thursday.

The Far East Drama festival, which DODEA-Pacific has sponsored since the mid-1980s, returned for its first in-person incarnation on Monday, after it was canceled in 2020 and done virtually the past two years, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Navy’s fleet of Super Hornet fighter jets introduced in the late 1990s are aging more poorly than the preceding fleet of F-18 Hornets, according to a Congressional Budget Office report released Thursday.

An unexploded World War II bomb was safely removed from a construction site in central Japan on Sunday by members of the country’s Ground Self-Defense Force.

Brittany Alkonis, the spouse of the Navy officer serving a three-year prison sentence in Japan met with President Joe Biden on Tuesday in a chance meeting at the Capitol following his State of the Union address.

The Nikkei Research survey of 1,663 Japanese adults between October and November showed 49% backed an expanded role in the U.S.-Japan alliance while 46% opposed it.

Japanese government officials and health care providers say they were not told in advance of a U.S. Department of Defense decision last year to force tens of thousands of its civilian employees into Japan’s health care system.

The USS America “detected, tracked and engaged a target” with an RIM-116 rolling airframe missile this week in the Philippine Sea, an exercise the Navy says was aimed at keeping the amphibious assault ship’s crew ready for warfighting. 

Col. Ricky Taylor and more than 400 American, Japanese, Australian and British paratroopers jumped Sunday into a drop zone at Camp Narashino, east of Tokyo in Chiba prefecture, as part of the annual New Year’s Friendship Parachute Jump.

The Australian government announced plans Thursday to spend more than $680 million to field surface-to-surface High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, or HIMARS, launchers, missiles and training rockets by 2026.