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The base at Tsuiki have announced their Air Festival for Sunday 24th November 2024:

https://www.mod.go.jp/asdf/tsuiki/

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Jonathan.

The JASDF Airshow page has recently changed slightly: The Full List of shows is at: https://www.mod.go.jp/asdf/event/list.html Blue Impulse Displays / Flypasts: https://www.mod.go.jp/asdf/event/cat-blue/ Non Blue Impulse: https://www.mod.go.jp/asdf/event/cat-kouku/ The three pages use the same heade...

The base at Misawa have annouced their Air Festival for Sunday 8th September 2024. But no Blue Impulse. https://www.mod.go.jp/asdf/misawa/event/Airfes/airfes.html https://www-mod-go-jp.translate.goog/asdf/misawa/event/Airfes/airfes.html?_x_tr_sl=ja&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp Jonathan.

The base at Komatsu have announced their AirFes show for Monday 23 September 2024:

https://www.mod.go.jp/asdf/komatsu/airfes/index.html

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Jonathan.

Update on the website linked in the top post:

"A spottersday will be hosted on both June 7th and June 10th.

More info on how to register will follow at a later date."

So the Friday and the Monday around the middle weekend.
And it looks like spottersday has its own logo as well.

For anyone looking for a ”fix” of Japanese Aviation at the moment: As well as the live stream from on top of the Naha Airport domestic terminal here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWzx-v_6kdTKi3oXhWOK1FA or here: https://www.qab.co.jp/livenahacity/ There is a YouTube channel which is currently st...

To track the spread of the COVID-19 virus in Japan, I use: https://www.coromap.info/ To give an idea of where it is. The individual patient write-ups can be copied into Google Translate. The person running the site usually takes a day or two to transcribe the Health Ministry reports onto the map, an...

Hi Uni, > I only want to know if you have read my second messages of this column. > Because your question(s) is(are) one of the FAQ for me, and I'm trying to answer it (them) on my second message. > If the message is not enough to explain for what you want, please tell me it(them). > I'll review it(...

> The last one tends to leave on a cruise in april/may. You might want to look that up. The Carrier Air Wing isn’t likely to embark before the Iwakuni Friendship day on 5 May (just as it tended not to deploy before the Atsugi Open House on the previous weekend, before the base move). If you do a sea...

> The new R/W of the Okinawa-Naha Int'l AP will open on 26 Mar., 2020. Thanks for that, Uni. I am curious as to how the new western runway at Naha will be used once it opens. I assume it will primarily be used for departures, to reduce the noise level in the town. But I am interested to see if the Q...

Thanks for the information, Uni. 1. Following on from the 2019 thread: Do you know if any formal announcements have been made regarding the basing of the JASDF F-35B fleet? Obviously you think they will be based at Nyutabaru; was that based on any official information? In particular, do you know if ...

No problem, Uni.

One more (pedantic) update from back on page 1: The price for the Number 51 bus from Hamamatsu Bus (and railway) station to "Izumi 4(yon)-chome" for the JASDF museum has gone up to 330 yen.

Jonathan.

I understand from conversations that were had during the Nyutabaru airshow that the extra restrictions this year were the result of the farmer’s access to the fields south of the base being restricted by poorly parked cars last year. I don’t know on what days, as the restrictions on cars this year f...

> This will be my first time to a Japanese Air Show. What time should I get to the base on the morning of the show if I want to get up close to the aircraft for runway departures without having people in front of me? That is a tricky one, especially as detailed arrangements can vary from year to yea...