News Search

  • Air Fest 2025: Where Airpower Meets Community

    The roar of jet engines filled the skies over Misawa Air Base during Air Fest, Sept. 21, 2025. The event welcomed families, local residents and aviation enthusiasts for a day of high-flying excitement, hands-on exhibits and cultural exchange.

  • Sincerely, Japan

    Since my early teens, the word, “Japan,” escaped my mouth hundreds of times. TI was infatuated with the country's unapologetic uniqueness.When I was 15, I owned my first Japanese car…a short-lived Honda Prelude, replaced by a Nissan 240SX, and declared to my parents I would someday live in Japan and

  • Misawa vice catches first salmon at annual festival

    The Annual Salmon Festival in Oirase, Japan, attracts Japanese and Americans alike from hundreds of miles away and is known regionally as the largest salmon festival in Northern Japan. Every year, a Misawa Air Base commander speaks at the event as an opportunity to thank the Japanese community for