Aaron Kidd
Pacific Bureau Chief for Stars and Stripes | Tokyo
- A U.S. Navy sailor pleaded no contest Wednesday in a Japanese court to causing the death of a motorcyclist in a collision near Yokosuka Naval Base last year. He may face up to 18 months in prison.
- Authorities briefly locked down a middle school at Kadena Air Base on Okinawa on Wednesday after a camera was found in a girls’ restroom, base officials said.
- In a vivid display of U.S. military might, more than 50 aircraft and two Patriot missile batteries lined an Air Force runway on Okinawa on Tuesday for what the service calls an “elephant walk."
- North Korea’s authoritarian leader ordered his nation’s munitions factories to accelerate artillery shell production, even as state media boasted of new records set in munition production rates, the state-run Korean Central News Agency reported Wednesday.
