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Japan's antipiracy operations off Somalia

A Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force unit holds a ceremony at the MSDF's Atsugi Air Base straddling Ayase and Yamato cities in Kanagawa Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Aug. 9, 2026, ahead of the departure of the unit's P1 patrol aircraft for antipiracy operations off Somalia.

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Japan's antipiracy operations off Somalia

A Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force P1 patrol aircraft is pictured at the MSDF's Atsugi Air Base straddling Ayase and Yamato cities in Kanagawa Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Aug. 9, 2026, ahead of the plane's departure for antipiracy operations off Somalia.

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US: Time-Lapse Shows Massive Smoke From Babylon Fire in Utah

This time-lapse, filmed on Monday, July 6, shows massive smoke rising from the Babylon Fire burning near Monticello, Utah. The fire grew to 101,073 acres and reached 11% containment by Wednesday, with more than 1,353 personnel deployed to fight it. Five structures have been destroyed, and the cause remains under investigation.

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Atsugi air base

TOKYO, Japan, Nov. 21 Kyodo - Video taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Nov. 18, 2024, shows the Atsugi air base, jointly operated by the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force and the U.S. Navy, straddling Ayase and Yamato in Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo. (Kyodo)

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Atsugi air base

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Nov. 18, 2024, shows the Atsugi air base, jointly operated by the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force and the U.S. Navy, straddling Ayase and Yamato in Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo.

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Atsugi air base

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Nov. 18, 2024, shows the Atsugi air base, jointly operated by the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force and the U.S. Navy, straddling Ayase and Yamato in Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo.

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Atsugi air base

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Nov. 18, 2024, shows the Atsugi air base, jointly operated by the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force and the U.S. Navy, straddling Ayase and Yamato in Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo.

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Atsugi air base

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Nov. 18, 2024, shows the Atsugi air base, jointly operated by the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force and the U.S. Navy, straddling Ayase and Yamato in Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo.

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Japan: US Navy Helicopter Makes Emergency Landing In Kanagawa’s Rice Field 2

A helicopter labeled the U.S. Navy made an emergency landing in a rice field in Ebina, Kanagawa Prefecture, not far from the Atsugi U.S. military base near Tokyo on Saturday, August 3, and then took off from the scene. No injuries were reported.

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Japan: US Navy Helicopter Makes Emergency Landing In Kanagawa’s Rice Field 3

A helicopter labeled the U.S. Navy made an emergency landing in a rice field in Ebina, Kanagawa Prefecture, not far from the Atsugi U.S. military base near Tokyo on Saturday, August 3, and then took off from the scene. No injuries were reported.

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Japan: US Navy Helicopter Makes Emergency Landing In Kanagawa’s Rice Field

A helicopter labeled the U.S. Navy made an emergency landing in a rice field in Ebina, Kanagawa Prefecture, not far from the Atsugi U.S. military base near Tokyo on Saturday, August 3, and then took off from the scene. No injuries were reported.

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Japan: US Navy Helicopter Makes Emergency Landing In Kanagawa’s Rice Field 4

A helicopter labeled the U.S. Navy made an emergency landing in a rice field in Ebina, Kanagawa Prefecture, not far from the Atsugi U.S. military base near Tokyo on Saturday, August 3, and then took off from the scene. No injuries were reported.

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New commander of U.S. naval air base speaks to press

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Capt. John Bushey, new commander of the U.S. Navy's air base in Atsugi, Kanagawa Prefecture, west of Tokyo, says he will strive to deepen relations with people in Japan during an interview with reporters at the base on July 24, 2014

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Osprey about to land at Atsugi base

YAMATO, Japan - An MV-22 Osprey transport aircraft from the U.S. Marine Corps Futenma Air Station in Okinawa Prefecture is about to land at Atsugi base in Kanagawa Prefecture on July 15, 2014.

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Osprey flies to area near Tokyo

YAMATO, Japan - An MV-22 Osprey transport aircraft arrives at the U.S. Navy's Atsugi base in Kanagawa Prefecture from the U.S. Marine Corps Futenma Air Station in Okinawa Prefecture on July 15, 2014, on its first flight near the capital.

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Osprey to fly to Camp Fuji via Atsugi air base

GINOWAN, Japan - Photo taken on July 15, 2014, shows U.S. Marie Corps MV-22 Osprey transport aircraft deployed at the Futenma Air Station in Ginowan, Japan's southwestern prefecture of Okinawa. An Osprey is scheduled to fly to Camp Fuji in Shizuoka Prefecture on the day via the U.S. Navy's Atsugi air base in Kanagawa Prefecture, southwest of Tokyo. It will be the first Osprey flight to the Tokyo metropolitan area.

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Osprey to fly to Camp Fuji via Atsugi air base

GINOWAN, Japan - Photo taken on July 15, 2014, shows U.S. Marie Corps MV-22 Osprey transport aircraft deployed at the Futenma Air Station in Ginowan, Japan's southwestern prefecture of Okinawa. An Osprey is scheduled to fly to Camp Fuji in Shizuoka Prefecture on the day via the U.S. Navy's Atsugi air base in Kanagawa Prefecture, southwest of Tokyo. It will be the first Osprey flight to the Tokyo metropolitan area.

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U.S. Navy begins 3-day landing practice at Atsugi base

YOKOHAMA, Japan - The U.S. Navy begins field carrier landing practice at the Naval Air Facility Atsugi in Kanagawa Prefecture on May 22, 2012, following a change in the deployment of the George Washington aircraft carrier.

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Construction work at Mage Island

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - A dump truck and a bulldozer are seen during construction work on Mage Island, Kagoshima Prefecture, on July 2, 2011. The Japanese government plans to move U.S. aircraft carrier landing drills, provisionally conducted on Iwoto Island, to Mage Island in association with the transfer of carrier-based aircraft from the U.S. Atsugi naval base in Kanagawa Prefecture near Tokyo to the U.S. Marine Corps' Iwakuni Air Station in Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan, by 2014, as agreed under a 2006 bilateral accord.

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(9)Terrorist attacks

ATSUGI, Japan - As local residents watch, a U.S. F/A-18 ''Hornet'' jet fighter is seen engaged in takeoff and landing exercises over the Atusgi air base, southwest of Tokyo, on Sept. 18.

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Gov't ordered to pay 170 mil. yen for Atsugi base noise

TOKYO, Japan - Plaintiffs walk into the Tokyo High Court on July 23 to hear a ruling on their case, in which they sought compensation for their suffering caused by aircraft noise at U.S. Atsugi Naval Air Facility in Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo. The court ordered the government to pay about 170 million yen in damages to 134 residents who live near the base.

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Cohen watches incinerator near Atsugi base

ATSUGI, Japan - U.S. Defense Secretary William Cohen (2nd from L) watches an incinerator near the U.S. naval air station at Atsugi, southwest of Tokyo, on March 16. He said the incinerator releasing cancer-causing dioxin should be closed down if the problem can't be fixed.

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State ordered to suspend flights at Atsugi base over plane noise

Lawyers and supporters celebrate in front of the Tokyo High Court on July 30, 2015, after the court ordered the state to suspend nighttime and early morning flights by the Self-Defense Forces aircrafts at Atsugi air base near Tokyo, and ordered to pay damages for noise at the air base including those for noise resulting from future flights through 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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State ordered to suspend flights at Atsugi base over plane noise

Plaintiffs seeking damages and suspension of nighttime and early morning flights at Atsugi air base near Tokyo, head to the Tokyo High Court on July 30, 2015 ahead of a ruling. The court ordered the state the same day to suspend flights by the Self-Defense Forces aircrafts, and pay damages for noise at the air base including those for noise resulting from future flights through 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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State ordered to suspend flights at Atsugi base over plane noise

Photo taken July 29, 2015 from a Kyodo News helicopter shows Atsugi air base, jointly used by the Self-Defense Forces and the U.S. military, near Tokyo. The Tokyo High court the following day upheld a lower court ruling that ordered the state to suspend nighttime and early morning flights by SDF aircrafts at the base due to noise, while dismissing the plaintiffs' call to halt the flights of U.S. military planes. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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P-1 patrol plane's interior unveiled to media for 1st time

Japan's first domestically developed P-1 maritime patrol aircraft is seen at Maritime Self-Defense Force's air base in Atsugi, Kanagawa Prefecture, on June 25, 2015, as the inside of the plane is unveiled to the media for the first time. Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. developed the plane as a replacement for the P-3C produced by Lockheed Martin Corp. of the United States. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Construction work at Mage Island

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - A dump truck and a bulldozer are seen during construction work on Mage Island, Kagoshima Prefecture, on July 2, 2011. The Japanese government plans to move U.S. aircraft carrier landing drills, provisionally conducted on Iwoto Island, to Mage Island in association with the transfer of carrier-based aircraft from the U.S. Atsugi naval base in Kanagawa Prefecture near Tokyo to the U.S. Marine Corps' Iwakuni Air Station in Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan, by 2014, as agreed under a 2006 bilateral accord. (Kyodo)

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Osprey about to land at Atsugi base

YAMATO, Japan - An MV-22 Osprey transport aircraft from the U.S. Marine Corps Futenma Air Station in Okinawa Prefecture is about to land at Atsugi base in Kanagawa Prefecture on July 15, 2014. (Kyodo)

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U.S. aircraft transfer to Iwakuni begins under realignment plan

Photo taken Aug. 9, 2017, shows one of five E-2D early warning aircraft that arrived at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni in the western Japanese Prefecture of Yamaguchi. The five arrived as the first batch of aircraft involved in a phased transfer of the U.S. Navy's carrier air wing from the Atsugi base in Kanagawa Prefecture near Tokyo under a realignment plan for U.S. forces in Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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U.S. aircraft transfer to Iwakuni begins under realignment plan

Photo taken Aug. 9, 2017, shows four of five E-2D early warning aircraft that arrived at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni in the western Japanese prefecture of Yamaguchi. The five aircraft arrived as part of the first batch of planes involved in a phased transfer of the U.S. Navy's carrier air wing from the Atsugi base in Kanagawa Prefecture near Tokyo under a realignment plan for U.S. forces in Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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U.S. aircraft transfer to Iwakuni begins under realignment plan

An E-2D early warning aircraft lands at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni in the western Japanese prefecture of Yamaguchi on Aug. 9, 2017. Four other E-2D planes arrived at the air station the same day, the first aircraft of those involved in a phased transfer of the U.S. Navy's carrier air wing from the Atsugi base in Kanagawa Prefecture near Tokyo under a realignment plan for U.S. forces in Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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6,000 around Atsugi base to sue gov't for noise pollution next month

A group of people living near the Atsugi air base meet in Yamato, Kanagawa Prefecture, on July 22, 2017, to prepare for their planned lawsuit against the Japanese government to seek a halt to nighttime and early morning flights at the base near Tokyo and compensation for noise pollution. Around 6,000 people will file the suit with the Yokohama District Court on Aug. 4. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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U.S. Vice President Pence arrives in Japan

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence (L front) and his wife Karen (R front) arrive at the U.S. Navy air base in Atsugi, near Tokyo, on April 18, 2017 from South Korea. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Top court rejects SDF flight suspension at Atsugi base

Plaintiffs suing the state over noise pollution around Atsugi air base hold a meeting in Tokyo on Dec. 8, 2016, after the Supreme Court overturned a high court ruling that ordered the state to suspend nighttime and early morning flights by the Self-Defense Forces at the base near Tokyo. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Top court rejects SDF flight suspension at Atsugi base

Lawyers for local residents suing the state over noise pollution around Atsugi air base hold up banners notifying the Supreme Court's ruling on the suit in front of the top court in Tokyo on Dec. 8, 2016. The Supreme Court overturned a high court ruling that ordered the state to suspend nighttime and early morning flights by the Self-Defense Forces at the base. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Top court rejects SDF flight suspension at Atsugi base

Plaintiffs suing the state over noise pollution around Atsugi air base near Tokyo head for the Supreme Court in Tokyo on Dec. 8, 2016, to hear the court's ruling. The top court overturned a high court ruling that ordered the state to suspend nighttime and early morning flights by the Self-Defense Forces at the base. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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(9)Terrorist attacks

ATSUGI, Japan - As local residents watch, a U.S. F/A-18 ''Hornet'' jet fighter is seen engaged in takeoff and landing exercises over the Atusgi air base, southwest of Tokyo, on Sept. 18.

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Kawara inspects U.S. base to study dioxin pollution

AYASE, Japan - Defense Agency chief Tsutomu Kawara makes an early morning inspection of the U.S. Atsugi Naval Air Facility in Kanagawa Prefecture March 15 to study dioxin pollution there, a tour hastily arranged to take place prior to his U.S. counterpart's arrival in Japan later in the day.

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Gov't ordered to pay 170 mil. yen for Atsugi base noise

TOKYO, Japan - Plaintiffs walk into the Tokyo High Court on July 23 to hear a ruling on their case, in which they sought compensation for their suffering caused by aircraft noise at U.S. Atsugi Naval Air Facility in Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo. The court ordered the government to pay about 170 million yen in damages to 134 residents who live near the base.