IWAKUNI, Yamaguchi -- Aerial acrobatics and ground attractions drew some 130,000 people, according to organizers, to the annual Friendship Day festival at U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni ...

Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni has been recognized for its excellent food and lodging facilities, the base announced. The Crossroads Mall, Club Iwakuni and the Temporary Lodging Facility will ...

MCAS Iwakuni is a well-known Navy Installation in Japan. The MCAS Iwakuni base guide has information for service members and families. Learn more.

The base has two lodging facilities: the Kintai Inn with 112 rooms and the Inn of the Corps with 78, according to the MCAS Iwakuni website. Space in both was limited, and families with children ...

VMFA-214’s F-35s have deployed to Japan in place of long-running F/A-18 Hornet detachments, which reinforce the U.S. Marine Corps squadrons permanently ...

This move, dubbed a step to "turn Iwakuni into another Okinawa," further accelerates the expansion of the Iwakuni base.

The CMV-22 Ospreys will replace C-2 transport planes that are currently stationed at the base in Yamaguchi Prefecture.

In a speech to United States Marines at the air station in Iwakuni, Japan, President Obama said his visit to Hiroshima was an opportunity to honor those who died during World War II.

TOKYO — A district court in western Japan yesterday ordered the state to pay a total of ¥558 million (S$6.5 million) in damages to residents around an air base in Yamaguchi Prefecture for ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -- Residents of the Japanese city of Iwakuni voted on Sunday in a referendum on the future of a U.S. Marine base, the outcome of which could affect broader talks on the relocation of U ...

In a two-story, 573 square-meter concrete building is a community hall, a kitchen and a lounge with massage chairs. Residents in the city of Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, frequent the facility to ...