Two of five bodies found near the crash site of a U.S. military Osprey aircraft were retrieved off Yakushima island in Kagoshima Prefecture, the U.S. Air Force said on Dec. 4.
A U.S. Pentagon official tried to clear the air of an apparent misunderstanding between Tokyo and Washington over flights of tilt-motor Osprey aircraft following the first fatal crash of one in Japan on Nov. 29.
WASHINGTON In his first face-to-face meeting with the U.S. defense secretary, Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada pledged to comprehensively strengthen Japan’s defense, including a first-strike capability against enemy bases preparing to launch an attack on Japan.
The health ministry confirmed Japan’s first suspected case of acute child hepatitis of unknown origin, a mysterious ailment that has been reported in many children in Britain, Spain and elsewhere.