This website was created and maintained from May 2020 to May 2021 to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Stars and Stripes operations in the Pacific.
It will no longer be updated, but we encourage you to explore the site and view content we felt best illustrated Stars and Stripes' continued support of the Pacific theater since 1945.
The Beatles at Budokan, 1966
Tokyo, June 30, 1966: The Beatles — from left, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr and John Lennon — onstage during the first of their five shows in three days at the legendary Budokan hall. The half-hour show featured the standard 11-song set from the tour: Rock And Roll Music; She's A Woman; If I Needed Someone; Day Tripper; Baby's In Black; I Feel Fine; Yesterday; I Wanna Be Your Man; Nowhere Man; Paperback Writer; and I'm Down.