The mayor said the city judged that the aircraft will not have a large impact on the lives of people living near the base. Read more
Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force resumed Thursday flights of its Ospreys near Tokyo, almost four months after suspending them due to a deadly crash of a U.S. military Osprey off a sout... Read more
The U.S. military and Self-Defense Forces plan to resume flights of the controversial Osprey aircraft as early as Thursday, the Defense Ministry has said, following the lifting last week of... Read more
Concerns in Japan over the safety of the controversial Osprey aircraft have reignited following a U.S. decision to lift a global flight ban, despite Washington’s “unprecedented” information-... Read more
Concerns in Japan over the safety of the controversial Osprey aircraft have reignited following a U.S. decision to lift global flight ban, despite Washington’s “unprecedented” information-sh... Read more
The U.S. Air Force said Thursday it had concluded recovery operations related to the late November Osprey aircraft crash off southwestern Japan. Read more
U.S. forces said Monday that remains and wreckage were discovered underwater during a joint search operation with Japan for the missing crew of a U.S. military Osprey aircraft that crashed l... Read more
U.S. Forces Japan dispatched two Osprey aircraft to search for the missing crew of another that crashed earlier this week in southwestern Japan, prompting local leaders to express concern ov... Read more
The crash earlier this week of a U.S. Air Force CV-22B Osprey — the first fatal accident involving the tilt-rotor aircraft in Japan — has rekindled safety concerns, prompting Tokyo to ground... Read more
The Japan Coast Guard said Wednesday that it had received an emergency call saying an Osprey tilt-rotor plane had crashed off the coast of Yakushima island in Kagoshima Prefecture. Read more