Kyodo : December 17, 2008

Last of 3 ASDF cargo planes involved in Iraq mission heads home
Kyodo : Dec 17 10:18 AM US/Eastern
KUWAIT CITY, Dec. 17 (AP) - (Kyodo)—The last of three C-130H cargo planes of a Japanese Air Self-Defense Force unit that is withdrawing from its nearly five-year airlift operations in Iraq departed from Kuwait for Japan on Wednesday. continued ...

12 U.S. F-22A fighters to be deployed to Okinawa's Kadena from Jan
Kyodo : Dec 17 03:39 AM US/Eastern
NAHA, Japan, Dec. 17 (AP) - (Kyodo)—The U.S. Air Force will redeploy 12 F-22A stealth fighters to the U.S. Kadena Air Base in Okinawa Prefecture for roughly three months starting next January, the base said in a media advisory Wednesday. continued ...