Yokota Air Base is a Japan Air Self-Defense Force and United States Air Force base in the Tama Area, or Western Tokyo.
US Air Force C-130J Super Hercules of the 36th Airlift Squadron parked on the Yokota flight-line during 2013. The aircraft feature the 'YJ' Yokota tail code.
Housing for unaccompanied personnel
Tents used to house U.S. Pacific Command's (USPACOM) Deployable Joint Command and Control (DJC2) system during Operation Tomodachi
JASDF Air Defense Command Headquarters
The United States Forces Japan is a subordinate unified command of the United States Pacific Command. It was activated at Fuchū Air Station in Tokyo, Japan, on 1 July 1957 to replace the Far East Comm
Yokota Air Base
…61 m (11,001 ft × 200 ft) runway. It features the JASDF Air Defense Command Headquarters (ADC headquarters) since 26 March 2012. The headquarters of United States Forces Japan is also located there. Other base facilities are the broadcast center for the American Forces Network Tokyo radio service and a detachment of Pacific…
U.S. Marines with JGSDF soldiers at Camp Kinser
United States forces assisted Japan via Operation Tomodachi following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.
Company F, 31st MEU, conducts rubber raiding craft training near Kin Blue beach, Okinawa, on 13 July 2011
GIs in Recreation and Amusement Association during occupation of Japan