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New SDF base on island for U.S. fighter jet drills

Photo taken from a drone on Jan. 10, 2026, shows Mage Island, located about 990 kilometers southwest of Tokyo in the East China Sea and part of the Kagoshima Prefecture city of Nishinoomote. Construction started in January 2023 for a Japan Self-Defense Forces base to be used as a site for U.S. fighter jet drills relocated from Iwoto Island in the Pacific.

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New SDF base on island for U.S. fighter jet drills

Photo taken from a drone on Jan. 10, 2026, shows Mage Island, located about 990 kilometers southwest of Tokyo in the East China Sea and part of the Kagoshima Prefecture city of Nishinoomote. Construction started in January 2023 for a Japan Self-Defense Forces base to be used as a site for U.S. fighter jet drills relocated from Iwoto Island in the Pacific.

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New SDF base on island for U.S. fighter jet drills

Photo taken from a drone on Jan. 10, 2026, shows Mage Island, located about 990 kilometers southwest of Tokyo in the East China Sea and part of the Kagoshima Prefecture city of Nishinoomote. Construction started in January 2023 for a Japan Self-Defense Forces base to be used as a site for U.S. fighter jet drills relocated from Iwoto Island in the Pacific.

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New SDF base on island for U.S. fighter jet drills

Photo taken from a drone on Jan. 10, 2026, shows Mage Island, located about 990 kilometers southwest of Tokyo in the East China Sea and part of the Kagoshima Prefecture city of Nishinoomote. Construction started in January 2023 for a Japan Self-Defense Forces base to be used as a site for U.S. fighter jet drills relocated from Iwoto Island in the Pacific.

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New SDF base on island for U.S. fighter jet drills

Photo taken from a drone on Jan. 10, 2026, shows Mage Island, located about 990 kilometers southwest of Tokyo in the East China Sea and part of the Kagoshima Prefecture city of Nishinoomote. Construction started in January 2023 for a Japan Self-Defense Forces base to be used as a site for U.S. fighter jet drills relocated from Iwoto Island in the Pacific.

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New SDF base on island for U.S. fighter jet drills

Photo taken from a drone on Jan. 10, 2026, shows Mage Island, located about 990 kilometers southwest of Tokyo in the East China Sea and part of the Kagoshima Prefecture city of Nishinoomote. Construction started in January 2023 for a Japan Self-Defense Forces base to be used as a site for U.S. fighter jet drills relocated from Iwoto Island in the Pacific. ==Kyodo

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Protest against new SDF base for U.S. fighter jet drills

People protest against the construction of a Japan Self-Defense Forces base on Mage Island, located about 990 kilometers southwest of Tokyo in the East China Sea and part of the Kagoshima Prefecture city of Nishinoomote, on Jan. 10, 2026. Construction started in January 2023 for the base, to be used as a site for U.S. fighter jet drills relocated from Iwoto Island in the Pacific.

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Protest against new SDF base for U.S. fighter jet drills

People protest against the construction of a Japan Self-Defense Forces base on Mage Island, located about 990 kilometers southwest of Tokyo in the East China Sea and part of the Kagoshima Prefecture city of Nishinoomote, on Jan. 10, 2026. Construction started in January 2023 for the base, to be used as a site for U.S. fighter jet drills relocated from Iwoto Island in the Pacific.

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China resumes Japan-bound group tours

Photo taken in Beijing on Aug. 10, 2023, shows advertisements for Japan-bound tours for Chinese people, displayed on smartphones. The Chinese government approved the same day the resumption of Japan-bound group tours for its citizens, lifting restrictions introduced in January 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Site of U.S. killing of Iran commander Soleimani

Photo taken on March 10, 2023, shows the site of the U.S. killing of Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani in January 2020 in Baghdad, with a monument commemorating the event seen in the background.

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Commemorating U.S. killing of Iran commander Soleimani

Photo taken on March 10, 2023, in Baghdad shows a portrait of Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani (R) and the Iraqi militia Popular Mobilization Forces' leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who were killed in a U.S. airstrike in Iraq in January 2020.

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Site of U.S. killing of Iran commander Soleimani

A car in which Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani is said to have been traveling when he was killed in a January 2020 U.S. airstrike is displayed near the event's site in Baghdad on March 10, 2023.

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Sumo wrestlers entertain fans on 3-day cruise

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Yokozuna Hakuho (extreme L) and three other professional wrestlers salute on the deck of the luxury liner Asuka II on Dec. 10, 2014, on the first day of a three-day cruise from Yokohama southwest of Tokyo during which they will entertain about 750 fans with talk shows and other performances. Cruise tickets cost from 115,000 yen to 520,000 yen each, including admission to the New Year Grand Sumo Tournament in January 2015.

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Yokozuna Hakuho chills out on cruise to entertain fans

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Yokozuna Hakuho relaxes on the poolside aboard the luxury liner Asuka II on Dec. 10, 2014, on the first day of a three-day cruise from Yokohama southwest of Tokyo during which the sumo champion and three fellow professional wrestlers will entertain about 750 fans with talk shows and other performances. Cruise tickets cost from 115,000 yen to 520,000 yen each, including admission to the New Year Grand Sumo Tournament in January 2015.

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Honda to launch new Legend sedan in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Takanobu Ito, president of Honda Motor Co., stands by the company's new Legend sedan on Nov. 10, 2014, in Tokyo's Minato Ward. The redesigned Legend, already rolled out in North America under the name the Acura RLX in 2013, will be launched in Japan in January.

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China's consumer inflation slows to level not seen since 2010

BEIJING, China - A vendor awaits shoppers in a market in Beijing on Oct. 10, 2014. China's consumer price index, a major gauge of inflation, rose 1.6 percent in September from a year earlier, compared with the previous month's increase of 2 percent, according to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics on Oct. 15. The latest rise in the inflation index is the lowest since January 2010.

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China's consumer inflation slows to level not seen since 2010

BEIJING, China - A vendor awaits shoppers in a market in Beijing on Oct. 10, 2014. China's consumer price index, a major gauge of inflation, rose 1.6 percent in September from a year earlier, compared with the previous month's increase of 2 percent, according to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics on Oct. 15. The latest rise in the inflation index is the lowest since January 2010.

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STAP cell research paper questioned

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in January 2014 in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, shows Haruko Obokata (L), a scientist at the Riken Center for Developmental Biology, and University of Yamanashi professor Teruhiko Wakayama, at a press conference on "stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency," or STAP, a method of generating pluripotent cells. Wakayama said March 10, 2014, he has told his co-authors including Obokata that their research paper on STAP cells should be retracted, citing the lack of credibility of some data used in the research.

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Live poultry trade in Shanghai

SHANGHAI, China - Photo shows a man selecting a live chicken at a market in Shanghai, China, on Jan. 10, 2014. Shanghai authorities banned live poultry trading in late January for three months in an attempt to curb bird flu infections.

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Mizuho Bank scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Satoru Nishibori, a former president of Mizuho Bank, answers reporters' questions in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, on Oct. 10, 2013. Nishibori admitted he was informed in January 2011 of the bank's lending to organized crime groups, saying he at least made efforts to eliminate the problem.

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Dollar surges vs. yen

TOKYO, Japan - A signboard at a Tokyo office of money broker Gaitame.com Co. shows the U.S. dollar trading above the 101 yen line and the Nikkei stock index above 14,500 on May 10, 2013. Stocks soared that day in Tokyo, with the Nikkei hitting its highest intraday level since January 2008, as the U.S. dollar broke through and traded well above the 100 yen mark.

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Nagatomo trains for 2nd season at Inter

PINZOLO, Italy - Japan defender Yuto Nagatomo (C) practices at the training camp of Inter Milan, with new coach Gian Piero Gasperini (2nd from L), in Pinzolo, Italy, on July 10, 2011. Nagatomo was loaned from Cesena to Inter in January and his permanent transfer to Inter was announced on July 1.

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Comedian Sakagami dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in January 2003 shows comedian and actor Jiro Sakagami, who died at the age of 76 on March 10, 2011.

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Playwright Kohei Tsuka dies

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows playwright Kohei Tsuka during a press conference in Tokyo after receiving the Naoki Prize for his novel ''Kamata Koshinkyoku'' in January 1982. Tsuka died of lung cancer at the age of 62 on July 10, 2010.

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Seiko Matsuda divorced

Seiko MATSUDA, a very popular pop-singer in Japan, announced her divorce from her husband and an actor Masaki Kanda. (Picture taken on January 10, 1997)