Elementary and junior high schools in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, home to U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, have been providing free school lunches since April 2018. The budget for seven years ...

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 ...

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 River, it ...

MARINE CORPS AIR STATION IWAKUNI, Japan — Twice as many venomous spiders were exterminated this spring on this base in western Japan compared with the same three months last year, according to ...

IWAKUNI, Yamaguchi Prefecture–The government has announced that the U.S. military will deploy CMV-22 Osprey transport aircraft to its base here by the end of the year, the first such U.S. Navy ...

IWAKUNI, Japan — Leaders from Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni and local governments walked through two districts of this city Friday night in a joint patrol aimed at promoting public safety and ...

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 ...

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 (1603 ...

The Yamaguchi Prefecture city of Iwakuni is on track to host one of the largest U.S. air stations in the Far East following an announcement from local heads that they will accept the relocation of U.S ...

The Iwakuni base is seen in this May 27, 2017 file photo taken from a Mainichi Shimbun helicopter. (Mainichi) IWAKUNI, Yamaguchi -- The mayor of this city announced on June 23 that he will accept the ...