Japanese forces' name and role to change
Source: Al Jazeera
Yokosuka :: Japan | updated 2013-06-13 00:40:21 -0700 | political-news
49 A thousand members of Japan's security force are preparing to take part in joint drills with US Marines...General Shigeru Iwasaki, chief of Japan's defence staff, said that changing the name of the country's Self Defence Forces would free it...
Annette Mixson, 74, supported navy wives, helped bring Midway to San Diego
Source: San Diego Union-Tribune
Yokosuka :: Japan | updated 2013-06-05 12:19:38 -0700 | political-news
Annette Mixson Standing just 4-feet 11-inches, Annette Mixson was pluck personified. Widowed young, she obtained a college education while working and raising two children. When she remarried, she channeled her innate fortitude to help her navy captain husband in his...
Politics › U.S. naval shift to Asia on track despite budget cuts: admiral
Source: Japan Today
Yokosuka :: Japan | updated 2013-05-07 15:41:05 -0700 | political-news
Plans to expand the American naval presence in the Pacific with new ships and hi-tech weaponry will go ahead despite steep budget cuts, the U.S...Admiral Jonathan Greenert told AFP in an interview he will seek to reassure partners during a...
Antics of ‘Animal' hard to forget more than 25 years later
Source: Japan Times
Yokosuka :: Japan | updated 2013-05-04 09:18:25 -0700 | sports-news
He wasn't the best foreigner to ever play in Japanese baseball, but Brad The Animal Lesley was surely one of the most colorful and unforgettable characters to ever put on the uniform of a Central or Pacific League team. The...
HMAS Sydney joins Korean tensions
Source: The Australian
Yokosuka :: Japan | updated 2013-04-25 19:32:11 -0700 | political-news
AN Australian warship is about to join a US aircraft carrier strike group in Japan, amid heightened tensions on the Korean peninsula...Sydney would have a role to play in a conflict if that happened. He said the fact the frigate...
Tropical Storm Hits Japan
Posted by: Adrian Holman
Yokosuka :: Japan | updated 2012-11-02 01:36:14 -0700 | technology-news
After the forces of nature have battered the nation of Japan earlier this year with a tsunami, an earthquake, and leaking nuclear reactors, you would assume that the people of Japan deserve as much respite as possible from natural disasters....
Red Cross Chat
Posted by: RobertWeller991
Yokosuka :: Japan | updated 2012-11-02 01:16:50 -0700 | humanitarian-news
by Attie Poirier, Red Cross Volunteer American Red Cross Youth Leader Emily Stith is a junior at Nile C. Kinnick High School at the Yokosuka Naval Base in Japan. She hopes sharing her experience will encourage others to lend a...
Death toll to top 15,000 in quake-hit Miyagi alone
Posted by: bulgars004
Yokosuka :: Japan | updated 2012-11-02 01:13:36 -0700 | disasters-news
The death toll from last week's devastating earthquake and tsunami will top 15,000 in Miyagi Prefecture alone, the local police chief said Sunday, while the Self-Defense Forces, police and firefighters continued their relief work for Day 10. More than 360,000...
BREAKING: U.S. Troops Struggling in Relief Efforts due to Radiation and Weather
Posted by: Stephanie Ealy
Yokosuka :: Japan | updated 2012-11-02 01:12:42 -0700 | disasters-news
17, 000 U.S. Sailors and Marines are on 14 ships off the Japan waters. Global Hawk drones and U-2 reconnaissance planes are being flown by Airmen for search and rescue, and to assess the damage. The operation has, so far,...
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