F-2 fighters collide in midair above west Japan
April 23, 2021 (Mainichi Japan)
F-2 fighter airplanes are seen landing at Tsuiki Air Base after training, in Chikujo, Fukuoka Prefecture. (Mainichi/Hiroya Miyagi) TOKYO Two Japan Air Self-Defense Force (ASDF) F-2 fighters came in contact with each other in midair above northern Yamaguchi Prefecture in west Japan on April 22. The two fighters belong to the ASDF s Tsuiki Air Base, which straddles the town of Chikujo and other municipalities in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Fukuoka. About an hour after the incident, which occurred just after 3:05 p.m., the fighters returned to the base. The two pilots and a photographer aboard were not injured.
FA18 jets fly at MCAS Futenma 15 years after return agreement, harm continues with 115 decibel noise
FA18 combat jet stopping by hooking the hook at the back of the plane to the wire hung over the runway, around 5:30 p.m. on April 12 at Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan (photograph by Keizo Shinzato)
April 13, 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo
On the evening of April 12, exactly 25 years after the agreement was made to completely close U.S. Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Futenma in 1996, four FA18 combat jets from MCAS Iwakuni in Yamaguchi Prefecture arrived one after another to MCAS Futenma, exposing the surrounding cities and towns to explosive noise. Their training continued into the night. Though a quarter of a century has passed since the return agreement, there is no change in the reality of U.S. military aircraft flights causing harm to surrounding residents, and the severity of the situation only continues to increase.
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In 1865 a Scottish sugar planter in Hawaii wrote to an American businessman in Yokohama: “Could any good agricultural laborers be obtained from Japan … to serve like the Chinese under a contract for six or eight years?” The American said he’d see.
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The ragtag band he assembled “mere laborers,” he said, “picked out of the streets of Yokohama, sick, exhausted and filthy” became modern Japan’s first emigrants. They arrived in Honolulu on June 19, 1868. They were known as
gannenmono “first-year people.” It was year one of the watershed Meiji Era (1868-1912); year one of modern Japan; 15 years after the famous “opening” of Japan by an American squadron of menacing steam-powered Black Ships.
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