from 374th Airlift Wing Public Affairs 2/1/2011 - YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan -- More than 200 members of the Yokota community attended the Chief Master Sergeant Recognition ceremony held at the Enlisted Club here Jan. 29. Seven U.S. Air Force and three Japan Air Self-Defense Force servicemembers were recognized during the ceremony as being the most recent memb ...

Winners of The Sullivans Elementary School D.A.R.E (Drug Awareness Resistance Education) Essay Contest Photo by Yuji Kawabe The winners of The Sullivans Elementary School D.A.R.E (Drug Awareness Resistance Education) Essay contest stand with D.A.R.E officer MA2 Patricia Mitchell and the school’s assistant principal Andrea ...

U.S. Naval Hospital Yokosuka nurse Lt. Phonthip Eadens shows Ikego Girl Scout Troop 13 “Daisies” around the Emergency Department during a tour of the hospital Jan. 3. The Daisies, who are 5-6 years old, also visited the hospital laboratory and the Maternal Infant Newborn Department to earn their “Discover Nursing” patch. Photo ...

Richard E. Byrd Elementary School Photo by Nancy Turner After reading the book “Stone Soup” Jan. 11, Richard E. Byrd Elementary School students Sean Cooper and Ali Curci in the kindergarten / first-grade multiage class made vegetable soup using math measurements and counting skills selecting 10 of each vegetable to add to the soup. ...

Story and photo by Vicki Boehler, Nile C. Kinnick High School Public Affairs Nile C. Kinnick High School (KHS) Spanish Honor Society was able to give back to their neighboring Japanese community when they participated in Tokyo’s Second Harvest Japan, giving food to those in need Jan. 7. Unemployment, orphanages, single parent families and the ...

By Chiyomi Sumida, Stars and Stripes, January 31, 2011 CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — The Japanese Supreme Court has rejected an appeal to halt night air operations at Kadena Air Base. The court dismissed an argument last week by local residents, upholding a February 2009 ruling by the Fukuoka High Court’s Naha branch that dismissed the residents’ demand to suspe ...

Stars and Stripes, January 31, 2011 YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — Active-duty and civilian personnel at Yokota Air Base no longer have to wrap up their carousing in the entertainment district just outside the base by 1 a.m. Col. Paul Feather on Friday lifted the long-standing curfew in the “bar row” neighborhood just outside the base’s main gate. Earlier in Ja ...

Stars and Stripes, January 31, 2011 YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan — Three Okinawa establishments were recently placed off-limits to Defense Department personnel, 18th Wing officials confirmed Monday. Bernard’s Garage in Okinawa City was placed on off-limits for unfair commercial practices. Stoner’s Den in Naha and Samurai in Okinawa City were also placed off ...