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83rd anniversary of Pearl Harbor attack

Adm. Steve Koehler, the U.S. Pacific Fleet commander, speaks at a ceremony at a park facing Hawaii's Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 2024, commemorating the 83rd anniversary of Japan's attack on the U.S. naval base there.

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Japan-U.S. joint drill in Sasebo

Gen. Yoshihide Yoshida (R), chief of the Japan Self-Defense Forces Joint Staff, and Adm. Steven Koehler, the U.S. Pacific Fleet commander, hold a joint press conference aboard the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS San Diego at U.S. Fleet Activities Sasebo, a U.S. Navy base in the southwestern city of Sasebo on Oct. 22, 2024, a day before the start of the joint Japan-U.S. "Keen Sword" exercise.

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Japan-U.S. joint drill in Sasebo

Gen. Yoshihide Yoshida (R), chief of the Japan Self-Defense Forces Joint Staff, and Adm. Steven Koehler, the U.S. Pacific Fleet commander, hold a joint press conference aboard the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS San Diego at U.S. Fleet Activities Sasebo, a U.S. Navy base in the southwestern city of Sasebo on Oct. 22, 2024, a day before the start of the joint Japan-U.S. "Keen Sword" exercise.

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Japan-U.S. joint drill in Sasebo

Gen. Yoshihide Yoshida (R), chief of the Japan Self-Defense Forces Joint Staff, and Adm. Steven Koehler, the U.S. Pacific Fleet commander, hold a joint press conference aboard the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS San Diego at U.S. Fleet Activities Sasebo, a U.S. Navy base in the southwestern city of Sasebo on Oct. 22, 2024, a day before the start of the joint Japan-U.S. "Keen Sword" exercise.

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Japan-U.S. joint drill in Sasebo

Gen. Yoshihide Yoshida (R), chief of the Japan Self-Defense Forces Joint Staff, and Adm. Steven Koehler, the U.S. Pacific Fleet commander, shake hands after a joint press conference aboard the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS San Diego at U.S. Fleet Activities Sasebo, a U.S. Navy base in the southwestern city of Sasebo on Oct. 22, 2024, a day before the start of the joint Japan-U.S. "Keen Sword" exercise.

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Japan-U.S. joint drill in Sasebo

Gen. Yoshihide Yoshida (R), chief of the Japan Self-Defense Forces Joint Staff, and Adm. Steven Koehler, the U.S. Pacific Fleet commander, shake hands after a joint press conference aboard the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS San Diego at U.S. Fleet Activities Sasebo, a U.S. Navy base in the southwestern city of Sasebo on Oct. 22, 2024, a day before the start of the joint Japan-U.S. "Keen Sword" exercise.

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Exercise Talisman Sabre Under Way In Australia

Handout photo dated July 29, 2023 shows The forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6) sails in a formation exercise during Exercise Talisman Sabre, July 29, 2023. America, lead ship of the America Amphibious Ready Group, is operating in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations. U.S. 7th Fleet is the U.S. Navy’s largest forward-deployed numbered fleet, and routinely interacts and operates with allies and partners in preserving a free and open Indo-Pacific region. Large wargames between the USA, Australia and eleven partner nations kicked off on July 21, the largest ever in the history of Exercise Talisman Sabre. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Thomas B. Contant via ABACAPRESS.COM

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U.S. Navy commander Harris at U.S.-Japan Council meeting

HONOLULU, United States - Admiral Harry Harris, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, nominated to be the next commander of the U.S. Pacific Command, delivers a keynote speech at the U.S.-Japan Council's annual meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii, on Oct. 10, 2014.

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U.S. rear admiral explains aim of Pacific military drill

GUAM, United States - Rear Adm. Russell Allen, deputy commander of the U.S. 7th Fleet, briefs reporters on the purpose of a military exercise in the Pacific Ocean in Guam on Sept. 15, 2014, the first day of the nine-day drill.

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U.S. Navy Pacific Fleet commander

NAGASAKI, Japan - Adm. Harry Harris, the first Japanese-American commander of the U.S. Navy's Pacific Fleet, salutes after placing flowers at the Higashiyama Navy Cemetery for members of the former Imperial Japanese Navy in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, on Nov. 20, 2013.

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U.S. Navy Pacific Fleet commander

TOKYO, Japan - Adm. Harry Harris, the first Japanese-American commander of the U.S. Navy's Pacific Fleet, holds a press conference in Tokyo, Japan, on Nov. 18, 2013.

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U.S. Pacific Fleet commander

TOKYO, Japan - Adm. Cecil Haney, commander of the U.S. Navy's Pacific Fleet, speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 16, 2012.

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Pearl Harbor attack's 70th anniv.

HONOLULU, United States - Adm. Patrick Walsh, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, gives a speech at a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, held in a park overlooking the harbor on Dec. 7, 2011.

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Pearl Harbor attack's 70th anniv.

HONOLULU, United States - Adm. Patrick Walsh (4th from R), commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, a veteran (5th from R) and other ceremony participants salute at a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, held in a park overlooking the harbor on Dec. 7, 2011.

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U.S. forces aiding Japan quake relief

TOKYO, Japan - Adm. Patrick Walsh, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, answers reporters' questions after meeting Gen. Ryoichi Oriki, head of Japan's Self-Defense Forces, at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on March 26, 2011, regarding U.S. forces' support for Japan's relief efforts following the March 11 quake and tsunami.

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U.S. Navy on alert for N. Korea instability

TOKYO, Japan - Adm. Patrick Walsh, commander of the Hawaii-based U.S. Pacific Fleet, meets a group of reporters in Tokyo on Sept. 8, 2010. He said the United States is on alert to respond to any incidents involving North Korea as the country appears to be entering the process of laying the groundwork for the eventual succession to power of one of leader Kim Jong Il's sons.

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U.S. commander confident in missile defense system

TOKYO, Japan - Adm. Gary Roughead, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, speaks in a recent interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo. Roughead expressed confidence in the effectiveness of the missile defense systems being developed jointly by Japan and the United States to counter threats in the region, including intercepting ballistic missiles from North Korea.

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Group calls for end to Iraq war in 1,000th demonstration

NAHA, Japan - Members of a citizens' group, which has been organizing weekly antiwar marches near the Okinawa prefectural government office for nearly 20 years, call for a stop to the U.S.-led war in Iraq during their 1,000th parade in Naha on April 4. The so-called ''lunch time demonstrations'' began on Feb. 17, 1984 in protest at the deployment of Tomahawk cruise missiles to the U.S. Pacific Fleet.

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U.S. Navy command ship Blue Ridge calls at Osaka port

OSAKA, Japan - The U.S. Navy amphibious command ship Blue Ridge enters Osaka port on April 14 to allow its crew three days of rest, the U.S. Navy said. The 19,648-ton flagship of the U.S. Navy's 7th Fleet, based in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, left there in January for the Western Pacific and Indian Ocean to ask countries such as the Philippines and Indonesia to cooperate in the U.S.-led antiterrorism campaign.

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Divers to search inside of Ehime Maru at end of Sept.

HONOLULU, United States - Adm. Thomas Fargo (L, front), the U.S. Navy's Pacific Fleet commander, meets Japanese Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka (R, front) on Sept. 9 at Hickam Air Force Base on Oahu Island. He told Tanaka that divers will likely be able to start searching the inside of Ehime Maru, a sunken Japanese high school fisheries training ship, at the end of September.

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Admiral calls Ehime Maru rescue effort 'perfect'

HONOLULU, United States - Rear Adm. Albert Konetzni is seen outside a U.S Navy Court of Inquiry at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on March 12. The court is probing the Feb. 9 collision between the U.S. submarine Greeneville and the Japanese ship Ehime Maru, which sank. Konetzni, who heads the Pacific Fleet submarine force, testified that he thinks the post-collision search and rescue operation was ''perfect.''

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Rescue expanded for 9 missing in Hawaii ship-sub crash

PEARL HARBOR, United States - Adm. Tom Fargo, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, (C) tells reporters at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Feb. 10 that the U.S. Coast Guard expanded searches for nine missing Japanese after Fe. 9's ship-submarine collision which a U.S. admiral said occurred during the sub's emergency ascent drill. He also said that 15 civilian guests were among some 130 aboard the 6,080-ton nuclear-powered attack submarine Greeneville but that their presence did not affect the sub's move.

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Japanese emissary meets U.S. admiral over ship-sub collision

HONOLOLU, Hawaii - Japanese government emissary Yoshitaka Sakurada (R) talks with Adm. Tom Fargo, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, at the Japanese Consulate General in Honolulu on Feb. 10 after the Feb. 9 collision between Japanese fishery training ship Ehime Maru and the U.S. nuclear-powered submarine Greeneville that left nine Japanese missing. Sakurada, parliamentary foreign secretary, asked Fargo for further rescue efforts.

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US Submarine Hits Underwater Object In South China Sea

Handout file photo dated May 27, 2021 of the Seawolf-class fast-attack submarine USS Connecticut (SSN 22) departs Naval Base Kistap-Bremerton for deployment. A US nuclear powered submarine struck an object underwater in the South China Sea on Saturday, according to two defense officials. A number of sailors on board the USS Connecticut were injured in the accident, the officials said. None of the injuries were life-threatening, according to a statement from US Pacific Fleet. It's unclear what the Seawolf-class submarine may have hit while it was submerged. U.S. Navy photo by Lt. Mack Jamieson via ABACAPRESS.COM

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US Submarine Hits Underwater Object In South China Sea

Handout file photo dated May 27, 2021 of the Seawolf-class fast-attack submarine USS Connecticut (SSN 22) departs Naval Base Kistap-Bremerton for deployment. A US nuclear powered submarine struck an object underwater in the South China Sea on Saturday, according to two defense officials. A number of sailors on board the USS Connecticut were injured in the accident, the officials said. None of the injuries were life-threatening, according to a statement from US Pacific Fleet. It's unclear what the Seawolf-class submarine may have hit while it was submerged. U.S. Navy photo by Lt. Mack Jamieson via ABACAPRESS.COM

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Russia Says Ship Intercepted US Destroyer In Sea Of Japan

handout file photo dated November 13, 2011 of the guided-missile destroyer USS Chafee (DDG 90) flies the battle flag during training as part of the integrated maritime exercise Koa Kai. On Friday October 15, 2021 Russia said one of its warships intercepted USS Chafee U.S. destroyer in the Sea of Japan that was encroaching on its territorial waters, claiming the vessels came within 60 meters (200 feet) of each other during the confrontation. The U.S. Pacific Fleet rejected Russias characterization of the incident hours later. U.S. Navy photograph by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Daniel Barker via ABACAPRESS.COM

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Russia Says Ship Intercepted US Destroyer In Sea Of Japan

handout file photo dated March 30, 2014 of the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Chafee (DDG 90) flies the U.S. Navy battle ensign while performing maneuvers off the coast of Hawaii. On Friday October 15, 2021 Russia said one of its warships intercepted USS Chafee U.S. destroyer in the Sea of Japan that was encroaching on its territorial waters, claiming the vessels came within 60 meters (200 feet) of each other during the confrontation. The U.S. Pacific Fleet rejected Russias characterization of the incident hours later. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Diana Quinlan via ABACAPRESS.COM

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Russia Says Ship Intercepted US Destroyer In Sea Of Japan

handout file photo dated January 2, 2012 of the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Chafee (DDG 90) deployed to western Pacific region. On Friday October 15, 2021 Russia said one of its warships intercepted USS Chafee U.S. destroyer in the Sea of Japan that was encroaching on its territorial waters, claiming the vessels came within 60 meters (200 feet) of each other during the confrontation. The U.S. Pacific Fleet rejected Russias characterization of the incident hours later. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class James R. Evans via ABACAPRESS.COM

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US Submarine Hits Underwater Object In South China Sea

Handout file photo dated April 27, 2011 of t he Seawolf-class attack submarine USS Connecticut (SSN 22) returns to port at Naval Base Kitsap-Bremerton after participating in Ice Exercise (ICEX) 2011 in the Arctic Circle. A US nuclear powered submarine struck an object underwater in the South China Sea on Saturday, according to two defense officials. A number of sailors on board the USS Connecticut were injured in the accident, the officials said. None of the injuries were life-threatening, according to a statement from US Pacific Fleet. It's unclear what the Seawolf-class submarine may have hit while it was submerged. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Timothy Aguirre via ABACAPRESS.COM

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U.S. Navy command ship Blue Ridge calls at Osaka port

OSAKA, Japan - The U.S. Navy amphibious command ship Blue Ridge enters Osaka port on April 14 to allow its crew three days of rest, the U.S. Navy said. The 19,648-ton flagship of the U.S. Navy's 7th Fleet, based in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, left there in January for the Western Pacific and Indian Ocean to ask countries such as the Philippines and Indonesia to cooperate in the U.S.-led antiterrorism campaign.

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U.S. commander confident in missile defense system

TOKYO, Japan - Adm. Gary Roughead, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, speaks in a recent interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo. Roughead expressed confidence in the effectiveness of the missile defense systems being developed jointly by Japan and the United States to counter threats in the region, including intercepting ballistic missiles from North Korea. (Kyodo)

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Group calls for end to Iraq war in 1,000th demonstration

NAHA, Japan - Members of a citizens' group, which has been organizing weekly antiwar marches near the Okinawa prefectural government office for nearly 20 years, call for a stop to the U.S.-led war in Iraq during their 1,000th parade in Naha on April 4. The so-called ''lunch time demonstrations'' began on Feb. 17, 1984 in protest at the deployment of Tomahawk cruise missiles to the U.S. Pacific Fleet. (Kyodo)

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1941 Daily Mail US Pacific Fleet hunting Japanese

1941 front page Daily Mail U.S. Pacific Fleet hunting Japanese, German Army retreat from Moscow and Battle for Libya Date: 16th December 1941

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1941 Daily Telegraph US Pacific Fleet hunting Japanese

1941 front page Daily Telegraph U.S. Pacific Fleet hunting Japanese, German Army retreat from Moscow and Battle for Libya Date: 16th December 1941

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Japan, U.S. vow cooperation on E. China Sea after Senkaku incident

Japan's Defense Minister Gen Nakatani (L) and Adm. Scott Swift (R), commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, meet at the ministry in Tokyo on June 14, 2016. The two sides agreed that Japan and the United States will work together to ensure stability in the East China Sea in the wake of a Chinese naval ship's sailing in a contiguous zone around Japanese territory there. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan to consider deployment of U.S. missile defense system

Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani (L) and Adm. Scott Swift, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, shake hands at Pearl Harbor Naval Station in Hawaii on Nov. 23, 2015, after their talks. Nakatani later told reporters that Japan will consider deploying an advanced U.S. antiballistic missile defense system to counter the missile threat from North Korea. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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U.S. aircraft carrier to join S. Korean fleet review

U.S. nuclear aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan leaves the U.S. naval base in Yokosuka, near Tokyo, on Oct. 15, 2015, to patrol the Indian Ocean and the West Pacific and to participate in South Korea's fleet review in waters off Busan to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the country's navy. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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U.S. Pacific Fleet Commander Swift speaks in Tokyo

U.S. Pacific Fleet Commander Adm. Scott Swift speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on July 21, 2015. Swift, who assumed command of the Pacific Fleet in late May, is in Tokyo on the last stop of a three-country Asian tour, which took him to the Philippines and South Korea. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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U.S. Navy admiral criticizes China's activity in S. China Sea

Harry Harris, commander of the U.S. Navy's Pacific Fleet, gives a lecture in Canberra on March 31, 2015. Harris was reported to have said, "China is creating a great wall of sand with dredges and bulldozers over the course of months" for land reclamation in the South China Sea, expressing serious concerns about its activities. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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U.S. Pacific Fleet Commander Swift speaks in Tokyo

U.S. Pacific Fleet Commander Adm. Scott Swift speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on July 21, 2015. Swift, who assumed command of the Pacific Fleet in late May, is in Tokyo on the last stop of a three-country Asian tour, which took him to the Philippines and South Korea. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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U.S. Navy on alert for N. Korea instability

TOKYO, Japan - Adm. Patrick Walsh, commander of the Hawaii-based U.S. Pacific Fleet, meets a group of reporters in Tokyo on Sept. 8, 2010. He said the United States is on alert to respond to any incidents involving North Korea as the country appears to be entering the process of laying the groundwork for the eventual succession to power of one of leader Kim Jong Il's sons. (Kyodo)

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U.S. forces aiding Japan quake relief

TOKYO, Japan - Adm. Patrick Walsh, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, answers reporters' questions after meeting Gen. Ryoichi Oriki, head of Japan's Self-Defense Forces, at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on March 26, 2011, regarding U.S. forces' support for Japan's relief efforts following the March 11 quake and tsunami. (Kyodo)

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U.S. Navy commander Harris at U.S.-Japan Council meeting

HONOLULU, United States - Admiral Harry Harris, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, nominated to be the next commander of the U.S. Pacific Command, delivers a keynote speech at the U.S.-Japan Council's annual meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii, on Oct. 10, 2014. (Kyodo)

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U.S. rear admiral explains aim of Pacific military drill

GUAM, United States - Rear Adm. Russell Allen, deputy commander of the U.S. 7th Fleet, briefs reporters on the purpose of a military exercise in the Pacific Ocean in Guam on Sept. 15, 2014, the first day of the nine-day drill. (Kyodo)

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Pearl Harbor attack's 70th anniv.

HONOLULU, United States - Adm. Patrick Walsh (4th from R), commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, a veteran (5th from R) and other ceremony participants salute at a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, held in a park overlooking the harbor on Dec. 7, 2011. (Kyodo)

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Pearl Harbor attack's 70th anniv.

HONOLULU, United States - Adm. Patrick Walsh, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, gives a speech at a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, held in a park overlooking the harbor on Dec. 7, 2011. (Kyodo)

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U.S. Pacific Fleet commander in Yokosuka

Adm. Samuel Paparo, commander of U.S. Pacific Fleet, is pictured during his meeting with Yokosuka Mayor Katsuaki Kamiji at the local city office in Kanagawa Prefecture, eastern Japan, on June 8, 2021.

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U.S.-ASEAN naval exercise

Rear Adm. Kenneth Whitesell (3rd from R), deputy commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, attends the opening ceremony of the first naval exercise between the United States and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations on Sept. 2, 2019, at Sattahip naval base in Thailand's Chonburi Province. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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U.S.-led naval drill in Pacific

Vice Adm. John Alexander (C), commander of the U.S. Navy's 3rd Fleet, delivers a speech at the opening ceremony of the Rim of the Pacific exercise, a major U.S.-led naval drill also known as RIMPAC, in Hawaii on June 28, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese defense minister meets U.S. Pacific Fleet commander

Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera (R) meets with Adm. Scott Swift, the commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, at his ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 6, 2017, to confirm their cooperation in responding to security issues amid the increased threat posed by North Korea's nuclear and missile development programs. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo