5/19/2011  By Lt. Gen. Kenneth Glueck Jr., III MEF  CAMP FOSTER, OKINAWA, Japan  — Memorial Day, or Decoration Day, as it was first called, was officially proclaimed on May 5, 1868 by Gen. John Logan, Commander of the Grand Army of the Republic. He called upon his soldiers to memorialize the fallen in their hearts and in ceremony. ...

YOKOSUKA, Japan The Los Angeles-class fast attack submarine USS Buffalo (SSN 715) arrived at Fleet Activities Yokosuka Oct. 21, for a visit as part of its deployment to the Western Pacific. Buffalo is a front line fast attack nuclear powered submarine capable of carrying out a full spectrum of missions worldwide. Measuring more than 360 feet ...

By Staff Sgt. Marie Brown, 35th Fighter Wing/Public Affairs, 5/31/2011 MISAWA AIR BASE, Japan -- On May 26, an audience of more than 300 servicemembers, their families, veterans and Japan Air Self-Defense Force paid tribute to fallen servicemembers in a special Memorial Day retreat ceremony outside the 35th Figther Wing headquarters building. " ...

from Michael Donley, Gen. Norton Schwartz and James Roy, 5/30/2011 WASHINGTON -- Secretary of the Air Force Michael Donley, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz and Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force James A. Roy send the following Critical Days of Summer safety campaign message to the Airmen of the U.S. Air Force and their families: ...

6:12 P.M. CEST      PRESIDENT OBAMA:  I just want to, very briefly, say how glad I am to have an opportunity to discuss important issues with Prime Minister Kan once again.  As I’ve said so often, we have one of the strongest alliances that has made both the United States and Japan safer and more prosperous for half a century ...

May 30, 3:40 AM EDT TOKYO (AP) -- A new poll showed Monday that more than 80 percent of Japanese voters do not trust government information about the country's nuclear crisis. The poll conducted by Fuji Television Network also found that nearly 85 percent of respondents said the utility that operates the stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant is dealing ...

By Dustin Perry Torii Editor Parents of students at Arnn Elementary School got a glimpse of the progress their children made throughout the past nine months during an end-of-year showcase held Thursday at the school. Projects exhibiting the Sure Start through sixth-grade students’ skills in writing, illustrating, critical thinking and compute ...

By Myra M. Dizon, AAFES Public Affairs Shoplifting at the Camp Zama Exchange was a goodnews, bad-news story in 2010, as the number of incidents decreased from the year before but the cost of products involved in detected cases went up. Thanks to an abundance of shoplifting prevention measures – such as eagle-eyed closed-circuit TVs with DVR technolog ...