Japan has grounded its fleet of V-22 Osprey aircraft again after an incident last Sunday where one of the hybrid ...

A US military helicopter has crashed into the sea off the coast of Japan, with six crew members feared dead. The Japanese coastguard received a call at 2.47pm that a US military Osprey had crashed ...

A Japanese V-22 Osprey hit the ground during a joint exercise with US forces, according to Japan’s Joint Staff.

An SH60J Maritime SDF helicopter crashed during a night training exercise over the Sea of Japan off Aomori Prefecture in August 2017, killing two people and leaving one missing. According to the ...

A similar Japanese military helicopter to the missing aircraft is shown here in a file picture A Japanese military helicopter which went missing with 10 people aboard is thought to have crashed ...

No residents were injured when the CH-53 helicopter crashed on Okinawa International University, but the accident uncovered the realities of the lopsided Japan-U.S. relationship. The U.S. military ...

TOKYO, Japan: Japan's Defense Minister Minoru Kihara said that two Japanese navy helicopters carrying eight crew members crashed in a ... a blade from each helicopter, and fragments believed ...

In April 2023 a Japanese army helicopter with 10 people on board crashed off Miyako island in southern Okinawa prefecture. The UH60 helicopter, known as a Black Hawk, had been surveying the local ...

In 2017, an SH-60J helicopter crashed in the Sea of Japan off Aomori Prefecture, northern Japan, leaving three personnel dead. The aircraft was a previous model of the type involved in the latest ...

Last April a Japanese army helicopter with 10 people on board crashed off Miyako island in southern Okinawa. There were no survivors. Two pilots, two mechanics and six crew members were on board ...

Brian McElhiney is a reporter for Stars and Stripes based in Okinawa, Japan. He has worked as a music reporter and editor for ...