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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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2 Ospreys conduct exercises at GSDF training areas

YAMANASHI, Japan - A MV-22 Osprey aircraft conducts landing and takeoff exercises at Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force's Kita-Fuji training field in Yamanashi Prefecture on Aug. 20, 2014. Two of the four Ospreys temporarily stationed at Atsugi base in Kanagawa Prefecture, which is jointly used by the U.S. Navy and Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force, joined the exercise.

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2 Ospreys conduct exercises at GSDF training areas

YAMANASHI, Japan - A MV-22 Osprey aircraft flies over Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force's Kita-Fuji training field in Yamanashi Prefecture during landing and takeoff exercises on Aug. 20, 2014. Two of the four Ospreys temporarily stationed at Atsugi base in Kanagawa Prefecture, which is jointly used by the U.S. Navy and Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force, joined the exercise.

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2 Ospreys conduct exercises at GSDF training areas

YAMANASHI, Japan - A MV-22 Osprey aircraft flies over Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force's Kita-Fuji training field in Yamanashi Prefecture during landing and takeoff exercises on Aug. 20, 2014. Two of the four Ospreys temporarily stationed at Atsugi base in Kanagawa Prefecture, which is jointly used by the U.S. Navy and Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force, joined the exercise.

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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 after leaving Atsugi base

YAMATO, Japan - An MV-22 Osprey transport aircraft flies in fixed-wing mode after leaving Atsugi base in Kanagawa Prefecture for Camp Fuji in Shizuoka Prefecture on July 15, 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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Flight suspension order at Atsugi base

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Lawyers hold banners before plaintiffs in front of the Yokohama District Court in Kanagawa Prefecture on May 21, 2014, after the court ordered the government to suspend nighttime flights by Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force at Atsugi base due to excessive aircraft noise. The base near Tokyo is jointly used by the U.S. Navy and Japan's MSDF.

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Flight suspension order at Atsugi base

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Plaintiffs celebrate in front of the Yokohama District Court in Kanagawa Prefecture on May 21, 2014, after the court ordered the government to suspend nighttime flights by Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force at Atsugi base due to excessive aircraft noise. The base near Tokyo is jointly used by the U.S. Navy and Japan's MSDF.

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U.S. carrier-based plane at Atsugi base in Japan

YOKOHAMA, Japan - A U.S. carrier-based plane is pictured at the U.S. Navy's Atsugi base in Kanagawa Prefecture west of Tokyo on Feb. 25, 2014. A citizens' group says the number of takeoffs from the base by aircraft belonging to the U.S. nuclear-powered carrier George Washington increased 43% in 2013 from the year earlier.

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Blind sailor, supporter rescued

TOKYO, Japan - Blind sailor Mitsuhiro Iwamoto (2nd from front, R) and his supporter and newscaster Jiro Shimbo (front) get off a rescue flying boat at the Maritime Self-Defense Force's Atsugi Base in Kanagawa Prefecture on June 21, 2013. The pair were rescued earlier in the day by the MSDF in the Pacific off northeastern Japan after their small yacht was flooded with seawater. They had left a port in northeastern Japan on June 16, 2013, in a bid to cross the Pacific to San Diego, California.

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Japan's new patrol plane P-1

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in March 2013 shows a P-1 jet, the next-generation Maritime Self-Defense Force patrol aircraft, at the MSDF's Atsugi base in Kanagawa Prefecture. The MSDF has grounded P-1 patrol planes deployed at the base due to engine problems, Defense Ministry sources said on June 20, 2013.

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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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U.S. electronic warfare aircraft

YOKOHAMA, Japan - The U.S. Navy in Japan unveils to the press one of its EA-18G carrier-based electronic warfare aircraft at Atsugi base in Kanagawa Prefecture on March 24, 2012.

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Change of command at Atsugi base

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Capt. Eric W. Gardner (L) is replaced by Capt. Steven J. Wieman (R) as commanding officer of the U.S. Navy's Atsugi base in Kanagawa Prefecture on Dec. 9, 2011.

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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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Island to be site for U.S. training

FUKUOKA, Japan - Photo taken in March 2010 shows the uninhabited Mage Island in Kagoshima Prefecture. Municipal leaders near the island opposed on May 25, 2011, a Japanese government decision to move aircraft landing practices there, a plan associated with the transfer of the aircraft from the U.S. Atsugi base in Kanagawa Prefecture near Tokyo to Iwakuni base in Yamaguchi Prefecture in western Japan by 2014.

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Japan sends patrol aircraft on antipiracy mission off Somalia

ATSUGI, Japan - Two Maritime Self-Defense Force P-3C aircraft are sent off at Maritime Self-Defense Force's Atsugi base in Kanagawa Prefecture on May 28 on an antipiracy mission off Somalia, marking the first overseas mission for the MSDF's patrol planes.

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High court rejects state appeal, raises damages over base noise

TOKYO, Japan - Plaintiffs and their supporters applaud after the Tokyo High Court ordered the state to pay more than 4 billion yen in damages over aircraft noise to residents around Atsugi base in Kanagawa Prefecture which is jointly used by the U.S. Navy and Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force.

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Japan-U.S. bases accord draws anger from Okinawa, elsewhere

TOKYO, Japan - Katsusuke Ihara, mayor of Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, speaks with reporters after visiting the Defense Agency in Tokyo on May 2. He said that his city, which would host carrier-borne aircraft from Atsugi base near Tokyo under a just-announced Japan-U.S. agreement on realignment of the U.S. military presence in Japan, cannot accept the accord.

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Iwakuni city to hold plebiscite on relocation of U.S. fighters

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - Katsusuke Ihara, mayor of the city of Iwakuni, briefs reporters at the city office in Iwakuni on Feb. 2 on a plebiscite to ask citizens whether they would accept a plan to relocate U.S. carrier-borne airplanes from Atsugi base near Tokyo.

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Gov't ordered to pay 2.75 bil. yen over noise from Atsugi base

YOKOHAMA, Japan - A lawyer for local residents around the Atsugi base in Kanagawa Prefecture holds up a banner in front of the Yokohama District Court on Oct. 16, which says the court ruled that a noise level on the Weighted Equivalent Continuous Perceived Noise Level index greater than 75 is illegal. The court ordered the government to pay 2.75 billion yen to compensate 4,858 residents for noise from the base.

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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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Kanagawa gov. meets U.S. Navy chief to protest night drills

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Kanagawa Gov. Hiroshi Okazaki (far R) meets with Rear Adm. Robert Chaplin (L), the commander of the U.S. Navy in Japan, on Oct. 17 to protest night landing drills conducted by Navy aircraft at the Atsugi base in September. In their meeting at the U.S. Forces' Yokosuka base, Okazaki also requested that the location of night landing practices be switched to Iwojima, a remote Pacific island 1,500 kilometers south of Tokyo.

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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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Iwakuni city to hold plebiscite on relocation of U.S. fighters

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - Katsusuke Ihara, mayor of the city of Iwakuni, briefs reporters at the city office in Iwakuni on Feb. 2 on a plebiscite to ask citizens whether they would accept a plan to relocate U.S. carrier-borne airplanes from Atsugi base near Tokyo. (Kyodo)

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Japan-U.S. bases accord draws anger from Okinawa, elsewhere

TOKYO, Japan - Katsusuke Ihara, mayor of Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, speaks with reporters after visiting the Defense Agency in Tokyo on May 2. He said that his city, which would host carrier-borne aircraft from Atsugi base near Tokyo under a just-announced Japan-U.S. agreement on realignment of the U.S. military presence in Japan, cannot accept the accord. (Kyodo)

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Japan sends patrol aircraft on antipiracy mission off Somalia

ATSUGI, Japan - Two Maritime Self-Defense Force P-3C aircraft are sent off at Maritime Self-Defense Force's Atsugi base in Kanagawa Prefecture on May 28 on an antipiracy mission off Somalia, marking the first overseas mission for the MSDF's patrol planes. (Kyodo)

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

An officer of Japan's Maritime-Defense Force sits in the cockpit of Japan's first domestically developed P-1 maritime patrol aircraft as the inside of the plane is unveiled to the media for the first time at the force's base in Atsugi, Kanagawa Prefecture, on June 25, 2015. 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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P-1 patrol plane's interior unveiled to media for 1st time

The cockpit of Japan's first domestically developed P-1 maritime patrol aircraft is unveiled to the media for the first time at Maritime Self-Defense Force's base in Atsugi, Kanagawa Prefecture, on June 25, 2015. 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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High court rejects state appeal, raises damages over base noise

TOKYO, Japan - Plaintiffs and their supporters applaud after the Tokyo High Court ordered the state to pay more than 4 billion yen in damages over aircraft noise to residents around Atsugi base in Kanagawa Prefecture which is jointly used by the U.S. Navy and Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force. (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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Island to be site for U.S. training

FUKUOKA, Japan - Photo taken in March 2010 shows the uninhabited Mage Island in Kagoshima Prefecture. Municipal leaders near the island opposed on May 25, 2011, a Japanese government decision to move aircraft landing practices there, a plan associated with the transfer of the aircraft from the U.S. Atsugi base in Kanagawa Prefecture near Tokyo to Iwakuni base in Yamaguchi Prefecture in western Japan by 2014. (Kyodo)

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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. (Kyodo)