Iwakuni Castle is located in Yamaguchi Prefecture. To get to the castle site, you can either hike or take the ropeway from the base of the mountain (200-meter-high Shiroyama). Once at the top you have ...

Straddling the river of the old castle town of Iwakuni, like a pebble skipping across the water, the five arches of Kintaikyo bridge (錦帯橋) form a sight similar to traditional Ukiyo-e Japanese art ...

MARINE CORPS AIR STATION IWAKUNI, Japan – American and Japanese middle and high school students gathered here for a weekend of cultural exchanges and entrepreneurial role-playing. The first ...

Kintaikyō, Japan’s largest and most attractive wooden bridge, originally connected the administrative headquarters of the Iwakuni domain with the adjacent castle town. Spanning the Nishiki ...

The castle town of Iwakuni and Suo-Oshima island across the bridge are scenic coastal destinations along the Seto Inland Sea in southeastern Yamaguchi prefecture. Until the end of the Edo period ...

Yamaguchi – Iwakuni Mayor Yoshihiko Fukuda said Tuesday that his city will allow the deployment of the U.S. Navy's CMV-22 Osprey transport aircraft to U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni ...

For kids, there are often monkey shows and a gondola ride up the mountainside that provides a wonderful view of the bridge and leads to Iwakuni Castle.

F-35C Lightning IIs are set to forward-deploy to Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan. (MC3 Ethan J. Soto/Navy) The Navy is forward-deploying F-35C Lightning II and CMV-22B Osprey aircraft to ...

Caroline B. Kennedy, U.S. ambassador to Japan, made her first official visit to Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, Jan. 28, 2016.

In a referendum March 12, a majority of residents in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, voted no on a government plan to host additional 57 carrier-based warplanes at the U.S. Marine Corps air station ...

The Navy is forward-deploying F-35C Lightning II and CMV-22B Ospreys aircraft to Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, to maintain security efforts in the Indo-Pacific region, the service ...