U.S. Ospreys win Japanese hearts and minds with quake relief flights

Edit Reuters 26 Apr 2016
IWAKUNI, Japan (Reuters) - The U.S. military's MV-22 Osprey aircraft has been a lightning rod for opposition to U.S. bases in Japan since 24 of them were deployed on the southern island of Okinawa in 2014. ....

Oil futures rise on weaker dollar, new cash inflows

Edit Yahoo Daily News 26 Apr 2016
By Henning Gloystein. SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Crude oil futures rose early on Tuesday, pushed up by a weaker dollar and a flood of new cash into the market, but analysts warned that fundamentals remain weak as a producer race for customers heats up in the Middle East ... The cargo will be lifted in June from Aramco's storage in Japan's Okinawa prefecture and shipped to China's eastern province of Shandong, Reuters reported on Monday....

External Trade Performance: February 2016 (PSA - Philippine Statistics Authority)

Edit Public Technologies 26 Apr 2016
(Source. PSA - Philippine Statistics Authority). EXTERNAL TRADE PERFORMANCE. FEBRUARY 2016. (Preliminary). February. 2016. 2015. TOTAL IMPORTS. FOB Value in Million US Dollars. Year-on-Year Growth (Percent). Electronic Products. FOB Value in Million US Dollars. Year-on-Year Growth (Percent). 5,414.18. 1.2. 1,518.46. -14.8 ... 10.2 ... Japan including Okinawa came second, contributing 12.6 percent or $684.69 million to the total import bill in February 2016....

Taiwan Business Quick Take

Edit Taipei Times 25 Apr 2016
POULTRY ... V Air to begin Okinawa route. V Air (威航), one of Taiwan’s two budget carriers, yesterday said it is scheduled to launch flights to Japan’s Okinawa Prefecture from July 1 to tap strong demand over the upcoming summer vacation period. V Air, a low-cost subsidiary of mid-sized international airline TransAsia Airways Corp (復興航空), said it has priced one-way tickets to and from Okinawa at only NT$888 for the period of July 1 to Oct ... ....

Stationing of US marines in Okinawa strange

Edit Topix 25 Apr 2016
From Okinawa they can deal with any contingencies as quickly as possible that may occur in any part of the region. But in a contingency involving China or North Korea, Sasebo in Nagasaki prefecture would serve much better ... ....

Announcement of Monthly Disclosure for March 2016(267.7KB) (Japan Hotel REIT Investment Corporation)

Edit Public Technologies 25 Apr 2016
(Source. Japan Hotel REIT Investment Corporation) 物件取得プレス This English translation is provided for information purposes only ... April 25, 2016. REIT Issuer. ... 8985) Kaname Masuda, Executive Director ... March ... 3 ... Okinawa Marriott Resort & Spa ... Mercure Okinawa Naha ... of Okinawa Marriott Resort & Spa, ACTIVE-INTER CITY HIROSHIMA (Sheraton Hiroshima Hotel), Mercure Yokosuka, and the b suidobashi did not agree with disclosure of numerical value....

Chinese incursions spark more fighter jet scrambles from Japan

Edit Stars and Stripes 25 Apr 2016
The increases have been seen mostly in the Southwestern Composite Air Division, which includes Okinawa and the Senkakus, a southern island chain whose ownership is disputed by China ... news@stripes.com.  . ....

Face of Defense: Marine Sergeant Leads From the Front (US Department of Defense)

Edit Public Technologies 25 Apr 2016
(Source. US Department of Defense). By Amaia UnanueIII Marine Expeditionary Force/Marine Corps Installations Pacific. OKINAWA, Japan, April 25, 2016 - After hearing he had been assigned to the position of chief instructor at the III Marine Expeditionary Force Headquarters Group corporals' course, Marine Corps Sgt ... New Responsibilities ... Physical, Mental Fitness ... During the weekends he practices Judo in town with his Okinawa friends ... U.S....

31st MEU ends support to earthquake relief efforts (US Marines Corps)

Edit Public Technologies 25 Apr 2016
(Source. US Marines Corps) OKINAWA, Japan --. Marines and MV-22 Ospreys with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit ended operations today in support of Joint Task Force Chinzei, led by the Japanese Self-Defense Force. United States Forces, Japan, announced today the end of direct U.S. airlift support to Government of Japan earthquake relief efforts in the Kumamoto, Japan, area. The need for rapid airlift of supplies by U.S....

USS Chung-Hoon Sailors Remember USS Sigsbee (The United States Navy)

Edit Public Technologies 25 Apr 2016
(Source. The United States Navy). By Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Marcus L. Stanley, John C. Stennis Carrier Strike Group Public Affairs. SOUTH CHINA SEA (NNS) -- Sailors aboard guided-missile destroyer USS Chung-Hoon (DDG 93) operating in the South China Sea remember USS Sigsbee (DD 502). On April 14, 1945, a kamikaze plane struck Sigsbee during the battle of Okinawa, killing 23 Sailors and causing extensive damage to the ship....

Army vets' Afghanistan saffron business grows on Chicago's South Side

Edit Stars and Stripes 25 Apr 2016
CHICAGO (Tribune News Service) — A saffron dream that first took root in Afghanistan is now growing on Chicago's South Side, where two Army veterans are carrying out what they consider to be "unfinished business." ... civilian life ... At Naha, a Michelin-rated restaurant in River North, Chef Carrie Nahabedian uses Rumi Spice saffron in her lacquered aged moulard duck breast, a dish also featuring foie gras, rhubarb and lime ... ....

HISTORY AND APOLOGIES Hanson: Putting Hiroshima and Nagasaki in context

Edit Richmond Times Dispatch 25 Apr 2016
No one knows exactly how many Japanese citizens were killed by the two American bombs ... Japan had just demonstrated with its nihilistic defense of Okinawa — where more than 12,000 Americans died and more than 50,000 were wounded, along with perhaps 200,000 Japanese military and civilian casualties — that it could make the Americans pay so high a price for victory that they might negotiate an armistice rather than demand surrender ... U.S ... ....

Marines say CH-53E helicopters are safe to fly, despite 'challenges'

Edit Stars and Stripes 25 Apr 2016
HONOLULU (Tribune News Service) — The Marine Corps said it grounded its CH-53E Super Stallion helicopters from training in Hawaii for 19 days and pulled them from an Australia deployment after the Jan. 14 crash of two of the big choppers off the North Shore of Oahu killed all 12 aboard ... Robert Neller told a Senate subcommittee last month. Sen ... Cassandra Gesecki, a spokeswoman for the III Marine Expeditionary Force in Okinawa, Japan ... Sen ... ....
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