374 Airlift Wing/Public Affairs 12/6/2011 - YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan -- Yokota officials are responding to a possible unexploded ordnance discovered at a construction site in front of the base fitness center here Dec. 6 at approximately 1 p.m. Officials cordoned off the area around the construction site after a suspicious object was unearthed a ...

By Charlie Reed Stars and Stripes, December 6, 2011 YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan – Base officials evacuated buildings and closed roads near the fitness center Tuesday afternoon after a suspected World War II-era bomb was discovered at a nearby construction site. The “suspicious object” was unearthed around 1 p.m., according to a 374th Airlift Wing news release. ...

Stars and Stripes, December 6, 2011 YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan — The Navy is in short supply of the most common sizes of the Navy Blue Jumper or “crackerjack,” the Navy announced this week. The old manufacturer of the uniforms “decided to get out of the Navy uniform business, and start-up delays kept the new contractor from meeting our needs,” Rear Adm. Ma ...

By Matthew M. Burke and Elena Sugiyama Stars and Stripes, December 5, 2011 SASEBO NAVAL BASE, Japan — “Niitakayama nobore 1208.” With those words, 3,435 lives, 188 planes, eight battleships, three light cruisers, and some might even say the innocence of a nation, were lost on Dec. 7, 1941. The attack on Pearl Harbor had plunged the U.S. into a brutal world ...

By MALCOLM FOSTER Associated Press, Dec 5, 9:29 AM EST TOKYO (AP) -- Japan's crippled nuclear power plant leaked about 45 tons of highly radioactive water from a purification device over the weekend, its operator said, and some may have drained into the ocean. The leak is a reminder of the difficulties facing Tokyo Electric Power Co. as it tries to meet it ...

Dec 5, 5:38 AM EST TOKYO (AP) -- An outing of luxury sportscar enthusiasts in Japan ended in an expensive freeway pileup - smashing a stunning eight Ferraris, a Lamborghini and two Mercedes likely worth more than $1 million together. Police say they believe the accident Sunday was touched off when the driver of one of the Ferraris tried to change lanes and ...

From Secretary of the Navy Public Affairs WASHINGTON (NNS) -- Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus and U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) signed a contract to purchase 450,000 gallons of advanced drop-in biofuel, the single largest purchase of biofuel in government history, Dec. 5. While the ...

From Naval Sea Systems Command Public Affairs BETHESDA, Md. (NNS) -- The Naval Sea Systems command co-hosted a career forum Dec. 3 at Naval Support Activity Bethesda to inform Sailors affected by the Enlisted Retention Board process about career opportunities in the government. Several Sailors affected by the ERB process attended the forum which inc ...