(These are the largest air forces in the world.) With about 700 planes, Japan’s air force is much smaller than that of China, which has more than 2,300 aircraft in its air force arsenal.

Japan has suspended all flights by its Osprey aircraft after a U.S. Air Force Osprey based in Japan crashed into the sea during a training mission on Wednesday, killing at least one of the eight ...

A Japanese air force plane has crashed soon after taking off for a training flight in central Japan, the top government spokesperson said. The T-4 training plane belonging to the Japan Air Self ...

TOKYO — Japan's air force chief on Thursday confirmed the deaths of two service members whose training aircraft crashed last week. The T-4 plane with two aboard crashed into a reservoir minutes ...

The Air Force is still not flying Osprey aircraft in Japan despite getting the green light to lift a monthslong flight hold following a deadly crash off the country's southern coast, but the ...

A crew chief marshals a CV-22B Osprey at Yokota Air Base, Japan, July 2, 2024. (A1C Samantha White/Air Force) U.S. Air Force crews from the Japan-based 353rd Special Operations Wing started flying ...

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — The U.S. Air Force has pulled a pair of CV-22 Osprey tiltrotors from drills involving U.S. Marines and Japanese troops in southern Japan later this month. The helicopter ...

The U.S. Air Force deployed a swarm of supersonic stealth strike fighters and anti-aircraft missile systems for a large-scale “elephant walk” in Japan, in an apparent display of combat power ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s air force chief on Thursday confirmed the deaths of two service members whose training aircraft crashed last week. The T-4 plane with two aboard crashed into a reservoir ...