Four crew members aboard a crashed Japanese military plane were confirmed dead Tuesday, the defense ministry said. The wreckage was found on the northern island of Hokkaido, where the LR-2 reconnaissance craft disappeared from radar Monday near Hakodate airport. It had been flying there to pick up a hospital patient ...
Japan will dispatch its biggest warship since World War II to protect a US supply ship, as tensions mount in the region over North Korea, media reports said on Sunday. The helicopter carrier Izumo will leave the mother port of Yokosuka, south of Tokyo, on Monday and join the US ...