A US Air Force F-22 fighter jet (front) taxis past a C17 aircraft after landing at Kadena US Air Force Base on Japan's southwestern island of Okinawa May 30, 2009. The first of 12 high-tech US F-22 fighter jets landed on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa on Saturday, days after the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) detonated a nuclear device. [Agencies]