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YOKOSUKA

Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Sep 8, 2018
Video gamers from across Japan, and the world, put down their controllers and head to Yokosuka
The city of Yokosuka, located south of Yokohama, is mostly famous for feeling at times like a slice of America, as it is home to a large U.S. naval base. (Some stores in Yokosuka even accept U.S. currency.) For foodies and fashionistas, Yokosuka is also well-known for its spicy curry and flashy bomber jackets. This summer, however, a new group took an interest in the city: video game fans.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
Jun 2, 2018
Japan Times 1918: Teacher's house stoned after racial epithet
Twenty-three students of the Odate Middle School in Akita Prefecture in northwestern Japan attacked the house of Mr. Kishida, instructor of natural history in the school, twice on the night of June 2, throwing stones and destroying the windows and paper slides of the house.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
May 14, 2018
U.S. sailor referred to Japanese prosecutors for alleged drug smuggling
A U.S. Navy sailor assigned to the aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan was referred to prosecutors Monday for allegedly smuggling narcotics by international mail, investigative sources said.
JAPAN
Apr 12, 2018
British warship docks in Japan ready to help police North Korean sanctions
A British warship "changed its deployment" and arrived in Japan on Wednesday to participate in efforts to police U.N. sanctions imposed on North Korea over its nuclear and missile programmes.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHY DID YOU LEAVE JAPAN?
Dec 23, 2017
Yokosuka native Haruna Kamezaki attains the American dream
Kamezaki was born in the mid-1980s and grew up in a household 'full of American records and movies, because my parents — and especially my dad — loved American culture.'
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 31, 2017
Theresa May inspects MSDF helicopter carrier at Yokosuka base
British Prime Minister Theresa May on Thursday visited a key Maritime Self-Defense Force base southwest of Tokyo to inspect a helicopter carrier.
EDITORIALS
Aug 28, 2017
The U.S. Seventh Fleet founders
The U.S. must get to the bottom of what lies behind the recent series of accidents involving its navy and address whatever problems exposed in the probe.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 22, 2017
Remains found aboard U.S. warship following collision as navy orders fleetwide probe
The commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet said some remains of navy sailors were found in a compartment of the USS John McCain on Tuesday, a day after the warship's collision with an oil tanker in Southeast Asian waters left 10 sailors missing.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 21, 2017
Ten sailors missing after Yokosuka-based U.S. warship collides with tanker off Singapore
In the second major accident involving a vessel from the U.S. Navy's 7th Fleet in just over two months, the guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain, based in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, collides with a tanker in waters east of Singapore.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 18, 2017
Skipper to be relieved of command, sailors face punishment over U.S. warship collision off Japan
The skipper, executive officer and master chief petty officer of the USS Fitzgerald will be relieved of duty over its collision with a freighter south of Tokyo Bay in June.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 9, 2017
U.S. aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan returns to Yokosuka base
The U.S. aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan returned Wednesday to its home port of Yokosuka Naval Base following a nearly three-month mission that included patrols and drills in the Sea of Japan.
JAPAN
Feb 3, 2017
U.S. Aegis destroyer runs aground, causing oil spill off Kanagawa
A U.S. Navy Aegis destroyer ran aground near Yokosuka naval base, causing an oil spill off Kanagawa Prefecture, a U.S. official said Wednesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 16, 2017
Yokosuka thanks rescuers, including U.S. servicemen, who helped after fatal car plunge
The Yokosuka Municipal Government in Kanagawa Prefecture on Monday awarded certificates of gratitude to nine people, including six U.S. military servicemen, who joined in the rescue of a family from a car that had plummeted from the fifth floor of a parking garage last month.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 31, 2016
Car drives off parking garage in Yokosuka, killing three and injuring two
A car carrying a family of five drove off the fifth-floor ramp of a parking garage Saturday in Yokosuka near Tokyo, leaving three dead and two seriously injured, police said.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 6, 2016
Outgoing U.S. defense chief tours Japan's largest naval vessel
Visiting U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter on Tuesday inspected Japan's largest naval vessel since World War II, the Izumo helicopter carrier, at a Maritime Self-Defense Force base in Kanagawa Prefecture.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 24, 2016
Asian students finish cross-cultural summer science course in Yokosuka
Forty-eight junior high and high school students from across Asia got together in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, to attend a one-week science summer school earlier this month.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 23, 2016
Inada visits U.S. aircraft carrier, inspects MSDF base in Yokosuka
Defense Minister Tomomi Inada visited the U.S. Navy base in Yokosuka on Tuesday and went aboard the aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan in a show of close ties between the two allies amid China's increasingly assertive maritime activities.
JAPAN
Jun 29, 2016
North Korea's long-range Scud can reach U.S. Yokosuka base: Seoul daily
North Korea's extended-range Scud missiles are capable of reaching the U.S. naval base in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, a Seoul daily reported Tuesday.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Jun 25, 2016
Okinawa base trouble puts dark cloud over upcoming Buffaloes-Eagles series
This week, the annual two-game series where a couple of Japanese pro ballclubs travel to play at Naha's Okinawa Cellular Stadium will take place. The Pacific League's Orix Buffaloes and Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles are scheduled to play there Tuesday and Wednesday. Normally, U.S. military personnel stationed in Okinawa would be part of the crowds — but it may be different this time.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jun 23, 2016
Family's pain over 2006 Yokosuka murder reflects desire for SOFA rethink
Justice has been a long time coming for Masanori Yamazaki, whose common-law wife was murdered by a drunk U.S. sailor in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, 10 years ago, in an unprovoked assault.
Number of homeless in Japan hits record low
Homeless people sleep on the street in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward in August 2021.
Raising kids in Japan as a single parent? It takes a village.
Making things work as a foreign, single mother in Japan isn't easy, but these tips and tricks can help you through the hardest parts.
JAL cancels international flight after captain gets drunk at Dallas hotel
A Japan Airlines' flight from Dallas to Tokyo was canceled last week after its captain got drunk at a local hotel.
In Japan, regional revitalization fails to halt population decline
Sakiyama elementary school in Tamba, Hyogo Prefecture, in March .Over the past decade, the government has directed efforts toward policies designed to give young people incentives to base themselves in rural areas.
Putin’s war will soon reach Russians’ tax bills
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a meeting in St. Petersburg on Friday.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.
Casa del Cibo: A thriving jewel born from Tohoku’s harsh past
When chef Ryohei Ikemi moved to Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, and opened Casa del Cibo in 2011, it was the first proper Italian restaurant in the city.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.
Kyotographie's strong 12th edition shines light into the margins
Yassine Alaoui Ismaili, who goes by Yoriyas, turned to photography, shooting motion while in motion himself, after an injury forced him to give up his career as a professional breakdancer.

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