http://www.asagumo-news.com/news/200804/080410/08041003.html

1 April 2008:
F-2 flight squad newly established under 8th Hikoutai, 3rd Koukuudan, JASDF, at Misawa AB, Aomori Prefecture. Assigned two F-2.
All about 20 F-4 of same Hikoutai will retire by end of 2008. Replaced by about 10 F-2 in each of 2008 and 2009, for total about 20 F-2.

By 2001 March, under 3rd Koukuudan, 3rd Hikoutai was first F-2 squadron, and replaced F-1.
After training, assigned intercept missions, from 2004 March.

After next two years, same air base will be the only JASDF Koukuudan with two F-2 Hikoutai.

http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20080416-00000125-san-pol

On or about 16 April 2008, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries paid up the 5.65 million Yen to Prefectural Nagoya AP as repair cost of the runway lights and runway surface damaged during the F-2 test flight by MHI.

] Does anybody know the segmentation of these 12 contracts?

Not me.

(Uncommon English articles in Yahoo! Korea News.)

http://kr.news.yahoo.com/service/news/shellview.htm?linkid=4&articleid=20080408224858237g0&newssetid=1352

“Military surveillance plane crashes”

[중앙 데일리] 2008년 04월 08일(화) 오후 10:48 가 가| 이메일| 프린트

A mid-air explosion sent a decades-old Korean Air Force RF-4C reconnaissance plane crashing amid thick smoke into a mountain yesterday morning in Pyeongchang, Gangwon, a Defense Ministry official said.

The 34-year-old captain, only identified by his surname Ryu, was rescued dangling from a tree.

The 26-year-old first lieutenant, Yu, received a minor injury on his face.

http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20080409-00000102-mai-bus_all

9 April 2008:
Fuji Heavy Industries (formerly Nakajima Hikouki) considers joining the MRJ (Mitsubishi Regional Jet) project.
If Fuji joins, Kawasaki may join.

] http://www.ejection-history.org.uk/PROJECT/YEAR_Pages/2008.htm#0407

7 April 2008:
RF-4C.
ROKAF.

No, I can’t read Korean either, so I went to Yahoo! South Korea News, searched for “RF-4C”, and used Alta Vista.
http://babelfish.altavista.com/

http://kr.news.yahoo.com/service/news/shellview.htm?linkid=12&articleid=2008040718082397098&newssetid=82
http://kr.news.yahoo.com/service/news/shellview.htm?linkid=12&articleid=2008040711002595501&newssetid=471
are maps of the crash site.

Accident photos look like the the Phantom II landed inverted, so haven’t seen a clear photo of its tail fin, for its serial number.

http://kr.news.yahoo.com/service/news/shellview.htm?linkid=4&articleid=2008040711313137415&newssetid=1352
looks like a photo of one of the pilots, surrounded by medics and… reporters. 8(
I expect Yahoo! South Korea News and other sources will soon have formal photos of the pilots.
I presume one is 34, the other 26.

24-30 March 2008:
10 JASDF personnel examine F-35 at Lockheed-Martin Fort Worth, Texas, USA.
In February to March 2007, JASDF personnel examined Boeing F-15FX, Eurofighter Typhoon, F/A-18E/F.

http://www.asagumo-news.com/news/200803/080327/08032706.html

http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20080329-00000923-san-soci

Saturday, 29 March 2008:
New terminal radar completed at Okadama JGSDF Base, beside Okadama AP.
From early June 2008, Okadama AP air traffic will be controlled by JGSDF Hokubu Houmen Koukuutai (JGSDF Northern Air Group).

First time JGSDF controls an air region.
JASDF already controls four air regions, including Chitose (Hokkaidou), Misawa (Aomori Prefecture).

http://www.asagumo-news.com/news/200803/080320/08032009.html

Article dated 2008.03.20.

2008.03.04: JASDF KC-767 #2 arrived at Gifu AB, from Boeing Witchita, Kansas, USA.
2008.03.11: Transferred to Komaki AB.

http://www.asagumo-news.com/news/200803/080306/08030602.html

Article dated 2008.03.06.
Photo dated 2008.02.29.

2008.02.29: JASDF received JASDF KC-767 #1 at Kawasaki Heavy Industries Gifu.