Tag: Japan

Scott Lloyd

Beltway Confidential

The US is a world leader in welcoming immigrants

Becket Adams · December 12, 2018 7:53 am

The U.S. military has called off a search for other crew members involved in a crash between an F/A-18 Hornet and a Marine Corps KC-130 refueling aircraft. (Marine photo)

National Security

Missing Marine crew declared dead

Jamie McIntyre · December 11, 2018 12:21 pm

Employees look over 2018 Honda Accord vehicles on the customer preparation line at the Honda of America Manufacturing Inc. Marysville Auto Plant in Marysville, Ohio, U.S., on Thursday, Dec. 21, 2017. More than three decades afterÂ Honda Motor Co.Â first built an Accord sedan at its Marysville factory in 1982, humans are still an integral part of the assembly process -- and that's unlikely to change anytime soon.

Business, labor groups tell administration to pressure Japan on cars

Sean Higgins · December 10, 2018 9:19 pm

In this Dec. 7, 1941, file photo provided by the U.S. Navy, the destroyer USS Shaw explodes after being hit by bombs during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

Beltway Confidential

Pearl Harbor and the “silly people” leaders of imperial Japan

Tom Rogan · December 7, 2018 5:59 pm

In this Dec. 6, 2018, aerial photo, a Japan coast guard ship and U.S. military plane are seen at sea off Kochi, Japan, during the search-and-rescue operation for missing crew members after a U.S. Marine plane and fighter jet crashed.

National Security

Marine Corps identifies captain killed in midair collision over Japan

Travis J. Tritten · December 7, 2018 3:21 pm

In this Oct. 13, 2016, photo provided by U.S. Marine Corps, two F/A-18D Hornets with Marine All-Weather Fighter Attack Squadron 533 approach a KC-130J with Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron 352 during a Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force - Crisis Response - Central Command aerial refueling exercise in undisclosed location. On Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018, two American warplanes crashed into the Pacific Ocean off Japan's southwestern coast after a midair collision, and rescuers found one of the seven crew members in stable condition while searching for the others, officials said. The U.S. Marine Corps said that the crash involved an F/A-18 fighter jet and a KC-130 refueling aircraft during regular training after the planes took off from their base in Iwakuni, near Hiroshima in western Japan.

National Security

Marine Corps: One dead, five missing after mid-air collision between jet and tanker off Japan

Diana Stancy Correll · December 6, 2018 3:53 pm

An F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet lands on the deck of the U.S. Navy USS Ronald Reagan in the South China Sea, Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2018.

One rescued after US Marine aircraft involved in ‘mishap’

Diana Stancy Correll · December 5, 2018 10:27 pm

A Curtiss P-40E Warhawk is pictured at the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio.

Beltway Confidential

Before Pearl Harbor, these secret American heroes were already resisting Japan

Alexandra Hudson · December 2, 2018 5:00 am

Former president George H.W. Bush pauses for a photo before an NFL football game in Houston between the Buffalo Bills and the Houston Texans.

Beltway Confidential

George H.W. Bush: The last presidential hero

Philip Wegmann · December 1, 2018 8:17 pm

Kansas recalls 731 car license plates after complaints they contain ethnic slur

Dominick Mastrangelo · November 28, 2018 5:09 pm

Carlos Ghosn, Chairman and CEO of Renault-Nissan Alliance, attends a press conference held in Paris, France, Friday, Sept. 15, 2017. The Renault-Nissan alliance is ramping up electric car production, vowing 12 new models by 2022 and to make electric cars 30 percent of its overall production.

Nissan tumbles amid Chairman Carlos Ghosn’s arrest, planned ouster

James Langford · November 19, 2018 4:01 pm

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison (right) and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (left) arrive at an event in Darwin, Australia, on Friday.

Beltway Confidential

Australia, Japan, and America’s strengthening alliance against China

Tom Rogan · November 16, 2018 7:18 pm