Konnichiwa! Yōkoso!Hello! Welcome to Japan!say it: ko-NEE-chee-wah! YOH-ko-so
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Pick your base.
Pick your base
🪖 Army✈️ Air Force⚓ Navy🦅 Marine Corps
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Naval Air Facility Atsugi
Ayase and Yamato, Kanagawa
Close enough to Tokyo for a day trip.
Quiet enough to hear the cicadas.
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Camp Foster (Camp S.D. Butler)
Okinawa, Japan
A subtropical island with coral reefs.
People here live longer than almost anywhere.
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Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni
Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture
The Kintai Bridge here has five wooden arches and no nails.
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Kadena Air Base
Okinawa, Japan
The largest U.S. air base in the Pacific.
It sits on an island ringed with reefs.
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Misawa Air Base
Misawa, Aomori Prefecture, northern Honshu
Far north Japan.
It snows hard, and the summer festivals are enormous.
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Fleet Activities Sasebo
Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, Kyushu
A harbor town wrapped in green hills, with 200 islands offshore.
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Fleet Activities Yokosuka
Yokosuka, Kanagawa
A train ride from Tokyo, one of the biggest cities on Earth.
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Yokota Air Base
Fussa, west of Tokyo
Tokyo is an hour by train.
Mount Fuji is visible on a clear morning.