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☆ ‘You are barrelling about the skies at 500 miles an hour.’ Why flight attendants want you to stop ignoring them
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-21 | by ( Francesca Street | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +15 min

They were unanimous in their praise for the JAL crew and how they’d seemingly expertly executed their training. He praises the JAL crew for their apparent quick thinking under pressure on January 2. Wirestock/iStockphoto/Getty ImagesFor Japan Airlines, the message that cabin crew are safety experts is delivered via the airline’s inflight safety video. According to Urano, there was some discussion about developing a Japan Airlines safety video starring Doraemon, the Japanese manga cat. Henderson says that as cabin crew, he couldn’t be more familiar with airline safety briefings.

Persons: Mizuki Urano, “, ”, Urano’s –, Urano, Kris Major, ” Major, Nicky Loh, he’s, there’s, ’, ” Urano, Doraemon, Rich Henderson, ” he’s, ” Henderson, won’t, Henderson, you’ve, they’ve, it’s, Igor Vershinsky, Major Organizations: CNN, Japan Airlines, JAL, Former Japan Airlines, Japan Coast Guard, CNN Travel, Alaska Airlines ’ Boeing, Singapore Airlines, Bloomberg, Getty, International Civil Aviation, Safety, Air Transport Association, – Locations: Japan, London, British, Singapore

☆ She started as a flight attendant at age 20. Now, she's just been named Japan Airlines' first female president.
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-18 | by ( Marielle Descalsota | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Japan Airlines named a woman as president for the first time in its history. AdvertisementThe new president of Japan Airlines is the first woman to helm the top job at the company, the airline announced in a statement on Wednesday. Related storiesTottori will replace Yuji Akasaka, the airline's president since June 2018, per Akasaka's company profile. Two weeks before Tottori's promotion, a Japan Airlines A350 plane collided with a Japan Coast Guard aircraft at Haneda Airport in Tokyo. Japan Airlines did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.

Persons: Mitsuko Tottori, —, Yuji Akasaka, Joanna Geraghty Organizations: Japan Airlines, JAL, JetBlue, Service, US, Reuters, Japan Coast Guard, Mainichi, Business Locations: Tottori, Japan, Tokyo

But the $290 billion outlay comes without a parallel plan to prepare Yonaguni for a possible humanitarian crisis that residents like Sakihara say could quickly overwhelm their shores. Tokyo, they said, has no plan to deal with them, and locals' pleas for help have gone unanswered. A spokesperson for Japan's Cabinet Secretariat said that "if large numbers of refugees came to Japan, relevant government departments would work together to respond". Even if he had a refugee plan, Kishida would still face an obstacle: his contentious relationship with the Okinawa government that administers Yonaguni. NOT ENOUGH TO SHAREBack in Yonaguni, resident Satoshi Nagahama, 33, was surprised to learn the government had no humanitarian plan for refugees.

Persons: Sonkichi Sakihara, chancing, Kenichi Itokazu, Itokazu, Hirokazu Matsuno, Xi Jinping, Joe Biden, Lai Ching, Matsuno, Fumio Kishida, Kevin Maher, Maher, Yoshihide Yoshida, Japan's, shouldn't, Kishida, Denny Tamaki, it's, Hironobu, Satoshi Nagahama, Sakihara, Koji Sugama, Tim Kelly, Kaori Kaneko, Yukiko Toyoda, Ben Blanchard, Kentaro Sugiyama, David Crawshaw Organizations: Reuters Graphics Reuters, Reuters, U.S, Japan Coast Guard, Migration Policy Institute, Nations, NMV Consulting, State Department, Defense Forces, it's, University's Research, of Disaster Management, Thomson Locations: YONAGUNI, Japan, Vietnam, Taiwan, China, Beijing, Tokyo, Yonaguni, Taipei, Myanmar, Europe, East, Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Washington, East Asia, Okinawa

The U.S. Air Force said on Monday that the bodies of five crew members had been found alongside the wreckage of a CV-22 Osprey that went down during a routine training exercise last week in southern Japan. Two crew members remain unaccounted for, and the remains of one had been discovered on Wednesday, the day of the crash. Over the weekend, the Air Force identified that airman as Staff Sgt. The body of Sergeant Galliher, a young father who went by the first name Jake, had been found by the Japan Coast Guard. The U.S. Air Force said that a breakthrough in the five-day search came on Monday, when a combined Japanese and American team found the Osprey’s fuselage.

Persons: Jacob M, Sergeant Galliher, Jake, Minoru Kihara, Ricky Rupp Organizations: U.S . Air Force, Air Force, Japan Coast Guard, United States Forces Japan Locations: Japan, Yakushima

☆ Japan Asks U.S. Military to Suspend Osprey Flights After Fatal Crash
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-30 | by ( Alastair Gale | Chieko Tsuneoka | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Search and rescue efforts were ongoing after a U.S. military aircraft crashed off the coast of southern Japan, the Japanese coast guard said. Photo: Japan Coast Guard/ReutersTOKYO—Japan asked the U.S. military to suspend flights by its Osprey aircraft after a fatal crash a day earlier rekindled local concerns about the safety of the tilt-rotor plane. Japan’s coast guard, police and military continued search-and-rescue operations around the crash site Thursday for seven people who were in the Air Force’s CV-22 aircraft when it plunged into the sea near the southern island of Yakushima.

Organizations: Japan Coast Guard, Reuters, Reuters TOKYO —, Osprey Locations: Japan, Reuters TOKYO, Reuters TOKYO — Japan, Yakushima

☆ Japan asks US military to ground Osprey aircraft after fatal crash
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-30 | by ( Kantaro Komiya | Thomson Reuters | Kantaro Writes About Everything Japan'S Economic Indicators To North Korea'S Missiles To Global Regulation On Ai Companies. His Previous Stories Have Been Published In The Associated Press | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

A Japan Coast Guard vessel and a helicopter conduct a search and rescue operation at the site where a U.S. military aircraft V-22 Osprey crashed into the sea off Yakushima Island, Kagoshima prefecture, Japan November 30, 2023, in this photo taken by Kyodo. The Japan Self-Defense Forces (SDF), which also operates Ospreys, will suspend flights of the transport aircraft until the circumstances of the incident are clarified, another senior defence ministry official said in parliament. A spokesperson for U.S. military forces in Japan did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The deployment of the aircraft in Japan has been controversial, with critics of the U.S. military presence in the southwest islands saying it is prone to accidents. The last fatal U.S. military aircraft crash in Japan was 2018, when a mid-air collision during a training exercise killed six people, according to the defence ministry.

Persons: Minoru Kihara, Witnesses, Chang, Ran Kim, Kantaro Komiya, Tim Kelly, John Geddie, Kim Coghill, Gerry Doyle Organizations: Japan Coast Guard, Kyodo, REUTERS Acquire, Rights, U.S . Air Force, U.S, Ospreys, Japan Self - Defense Forces, Boeing, Bell Helicopter, Marines, Navy, U.S . Marine Corps, Osprey, Thomson Locations: Kagoshima prefecture, Japan, U.S, Australia, Okinawa

☆ US Osprey aircraft crashes off coast of Japan with eight on board
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( Jessie Yeung | Emiko Jozuka | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

Tokyo CNN —A US military Osprey aircraft crashed off the coast of Japan’s Yakushima Island in southern Kagoshima prefecture on Wednesday, with eight people on board, according to a spokesperson from the Japan Coast Guard. ET), said the spokesperson, adding the 10th Regional Coast Guard Headquarters has dispatched a patrol boat and aircraft to the crash area. It is the latest deadly crash to involve an Osprey military aircraft, with numerous accidents reported over the years. In 2022, five US Marines died after their MV-22B Osprey plane crashed during a training mission near Glamis, California. The same year four US service members were killed when their Osprey crashed during NATO training exercises in Norway.

Persons: Cedric Leighton Organizations: Tokyo CNN, Osprey, Japan Coast Guard, Coast Guard, Regional Coast Guard Headquarters, NATO, CNN, US Air Force Locations: Japan’s, Kagoshima prefecture, Australia, Glamis , California, Norway

The U.S. military said the mishap occurred during a routine training mission off the shores of Yakushima Island, about 1,040 km (650 miles) southwest of the capital Tokyo. Another Osprey thought to have been travelling with the crashed aircraft landed safely at the island's airport on Wednesday afternoon, a spokesperson for the local government said. Japan, which also operates Osprey aircraft, said on Wednesday it had asked the U.S. military to investigate the crash. The deployment of the hybrid aircraft in Japan has been controversial, with critics saying it is prone to accidents. In August, a U.S. Osprey crashed off the coast of northern Australia while transporting troops during a routine military exercise, killing three U.S. Marines.

Persons: Kiyoshi Takenaka, Tim Kelly, Kantaro, Idrees Ali, Phil Stewart, John Geddie, David Dolan, Gerry Doyle, Nick Macfie, Deepa Babington Organizations: Japan Coast Guard, Yakushima Fisheries Cooperative, . Air Force Special, Command, United, ., Boeing, Bell Helicopter, U.S . Air Force, Marines, Navy, Japan Self - Defense Forces, Osprey, U.S, Thomson Locations: Kagoshima prefecture, Japan, TOKYO, U.S, Yakushima, Tokyo, Japan's, United States, Taiwan, Okinawa, Australia

☆ China, Japan coast guards face off again near disputed islands
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

BEIJING/TOKYO, Nov 1 (Reuters) - Chinese and Japanese coast guard ships faced off in waters around disputed islands in the East China Sea again on Wednesday, with both countries saying they deployed patrol ships to urge the other side to leave the territory. The disputed islands, called Diaoyu in China and Senkaku in Japan, are claimed by both countries. The Chinese coast guard said three Japanese ships and several patrol ships illegally entered its territorial waters on Wednesday and that it took necessary control measures in accordance with the law. Japan's coast guard said its patrol boats in turn repeatedly urged three Chinese coast guard vessels to leave the waters. Reporting by Beijing newsroom, Mariko Katsumura in Tokyo; Editing by Jacqueline Wong and Chang-Ran KimOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Mariko Katsumura, Jacqueline Wong, Chang, Ran Kim Organizations: East China, Beijing, Thomson Locations: BEIJING, TOKYO, East, China, Senkaku, Japan, Japan's, Tokyo

☆ North Korea to launch satellite over Yellow Sea -Japan Coast Guard
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-21 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

TOKYO, Aug 22 (Reuters) - North Korea has said it will launch a satellite between Aug. 24-31 in the direction of the Yellow Sea and East China Sea, the Japanese Coast Guard said on Tuesday. The Coast Guard added that the satellite, if launched, was likely to fall outside of Japan's exclusive economic zone. North Korea launched a satellite on May 31 that ended up plunging into the sea. The new "Chollima-1" satellite launch rocket failed because of instability in the engine and fuel system, state news agency KCNA reported. It prompted emergency alerts and brief evacuation warnings in parts of South Korea and Japan but no danger or damage was reported.

Persons: Fumio, KCNA, Elaine Lies, Deepa Babington, Stephen Coates Organizations: Japanese Coast Guard, Twitter, Coast Guard, North, Thomson Locations: TOKYO, North Korea, East China, Japan, South Korea, United States

☆ Japan searching for 10 people aboard crashed military helicopter
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-06 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/5] An unidentified object floating in the ocean is seen near the site of a military helicopter crash, in the sea near Miyakojima, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, in this handout photo taken on April 6, 2023. 11th Regional Coast Guard Headquarters-Japan Coast Guard/HANDOUT via REUTERSTOKYO, April 6 (Reuters) - Japan on Thursday said rescue efforts were under way to locate any survivors after one of its military helicopters carrying 10 people crashed in the sea near Miyakojima, part of the country's southwest Okinawa island chain. Morishita did not say whether the helicopter was involved in tracking any Chinese military activity. Japanese Coast Guard and military ships and aircraft that located aircraft wreckage in the water were searching for the missing four helicopter crew members and six passengers. Reporting by Tim Kelly, Mariko Katsumura and Kantaro Komiya Editing by Chang-Ran Kim, Kirsten DonovanOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ North Korea fired ballistic missile towards sea off east coast - Yonhap
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-19 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

SEOUL, March 19 (Reuters) - North Korea fired a ballistic missile towards the sea off the east coast of the Korean Peninsula on Sunday, news agency Yonhap reported, citing South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS). The Japan Coast Guard also said what was fired by North Korea could be a ballistic missile. The North on Thursday fired a suspected intercontinental ballistic missile into the sea between the Korean peninsula and Japan, hours before South Korea's president flew to Tokyo for a summit that discussed ways to counter the nuclear-armed North. South Korean and American forces are conducting 11-day joint military drills, dubbed "Freedom Shield 23." Reporting by Hyunsu Yim; Editing by Jacqueline Wong and William MallardOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Thirteen crew rescued after ship sinks off Japan, search on for 9 missing
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-25 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The vessel, the 6,651-tonne Hong Kong-registered "Jintian", issued a distress call late on Tuesday, the Japan Coast Guard said. A Coast Guard spokesperson said winds were strong at the time the distress signal was received at around 11:15 p.m. on Tuesday. The Coast Guard "is also seeking cooperation from the Self-Defense Forces, South Korean Coast Guard, and vessels sailing near the waters," Matsuno said at a regular news conference. He said the five crew members who were rescued were all Chinese but had no further information on their condition. A Japan Coast Guard spokesperson told Reuters the Japan Air Self-Defense Force and the Korea Coast Guard rescued another eight members of the crew.

Seoul, South Korea CNN —North Korea launched an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on Friday, the second missile test by the Kim Jong Un regime in two days, in actions condemned as unacceptable by Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. “North Korea is continuing to carry out provocative actions at frequency never seen before,” Kishida told reporters Friday at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting in Bangkok, Thailand. Increased missile testsThe aggressive acceleration in weapons testing and rhetoric has sparked alarm in the region, with the US, South Korea and Japan responding with missile launches and joint military exercises. The tally includes both cruise and ballistic missiles, with the latter making up the majority of North Korean test this year. North Korea isn’t interested talking right now,” Lewis said.

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