Shigeru Yokota, whose tireless campaign for the return of his kidnapped daughter and other

last week, transferring leadership to Takuya Yokota, the younger brother of abductee Megumi Yokota who

at Yokota Air Base in the suburbs of Tokyo, where the headquarters of U.S. Forces Japan are located

Sakie Yokota, whose daughter Megumi was abducted by North Korea in 1977 at age 13, meets the press

pieces of wreckage near the coast of the island in southern Japan.... The Osprey, from Yokota Air Base

said in a statement.On Nov.... 29, the U.S. Air Force CV-22B Osprey from Yokota Air Base in Japan

president, flew from South Korea into Yokota Air Base outside Tokyo, where he will meet with Japan’s

The Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan's( CDP) Yukio Ubukata, a House of Representatives member for the Chiba No.... According to Ubukata's office, Sukuu-kai and other sources, Ubukata held a meeting to brief his constituents on national political affairs at the Matsudo civic center in the Chiba Prefecture city of Matsudo on Sept.... All politicians think this way." Ubukata tweeted on Oct....

TOKYO — A U.S. Air Force Osprey based in Japan crashed during a training mission Wednesday off of the country’s southern coast, killing at least one of the eight crew members, the Japanese coast guard said. The cause of the crash and the status of the seven others on board were not immediately known, Japanese coast guard spokesperson Kazuo Ogawa said. Advertisement The Osprey is a hybrid aircraft that takes off and lands like a helicopter, but during flight it can rotate its propellers forward a

Wataru Akahata is shown in this image.... The vaccine in development by VLP Therapeutics Japan uses new" replicon" technology, a next-generation messenger ribonucleic acid( mRNA) that self-replicates inside the recipient's body after vaccine administration.... The firm says it aims to apply for pharmaceutical approval and put it to practical use within 2022....