Story by Yasuo Osakabe | 374th Airlift Wing | 03.10.2025
When a natural disaster or emergency occurs, communities often experience panic and uncertainty. Fourteen years ago, the Yokota community faced a similar situation during the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, followed by Operation Tomodachi in 2011....
Story by Clifford Davis | Naval History and Heritage Command | 12.05.2023
WASHINGTON NAVY YARD – Recognizing a gap in the modern literature of the U.S. Navy regarding the importance of humanitarian and disaster relief (HADR) operations, one Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC) historian fills the void with his latest publication "A Global Force for Good: Sea Services Humanitarian Operations in the Twenty-First Century."...
Courtesy Story | Military Sealift Command Far East | 03.19.2021
Military Sealift Command, Yokohama North Dock and civilian personnel gathered on the 10th anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake that killed thousands of people and destroyed homes and critical infrastructure in Japan’s Tohoku region....
Story by Petty Officer 3rd Class Jillian Grady | USS RONALD REAGAN (CVN 76) | 03.17.2021
On March 11, 2011, the United States’ ally, Japan, suffered a magnitude 9.1 earthquake. It was the fourth most powerful in recorded history, creating a tsunami with waves towering 133 feet and traveling 435 miles per hour, six miles inland. The tsunami triggered meltdowns of three nuclear reactors at Japan’s Fukushima facility. In the wake of devastation, all four branches of the United......
Story by Winifred Brown | U.S. Army Garrison - Japan | 03.12.2021
U.S. Army Garrison Japan employees observed six minutes of silence March 11, 2021, in commemoration of the magnitude 9.0 earthquake that struck off the eastern coast of Japan 10 years ago....
Story by Katie Gray | Marine Corps Installations Pacific | 03.11.2021
Over 120 Combined Arms Training Center Camp Fuji service members and civilian personnel held a remembrance run for the 10th year anniversary of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, and the tsunami and reactor disaster that followed, March 11, 2021....
Story by Tech. Sgt. Christopher Jacobs | 35th Fighter Wing | 03.11.2021
U.S. Air Force Col. Jesse J. Friedel, the 35th Fighter Wing and Misawa Air Base installation commander, hosted a commemoration ceremony with Japan Air Self-Defense Force and local civic leaders to honor of the 10th anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake at Misawa Air Base, Japan, March 11, 2021....
Story by Staff Sgt. Joshua Edwards | 374th Airlift Wing | 03.11.2021
The 374th Airlift Wing hosted a ceremony for the 10th Anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake and the Operation Tomodachi support efforts at the wing headquarters building March 11. The wing, alongside representatives from the North Kanto Defense Bureau and the surrounding municipalities’ friendship club, honored the nearly 16,000 individuals who died and more than 2,500 who went......
