Japan SDF, U.S. Military Begin Large-Scale Joint Exercise

Tokyo, Nov. 10 (Jiji Press)–The Japanese Self-Protection Forces and the U.S. navy began large-scale joint navy coaching Thursday, aiming to enhance their joint response capabilities.

The Eager Sword train is held each two years within the seas and airspace round Japan and at SDF services for enhancing capabilities to defend distant islands and reply to potential ballistic missile assaults.

The state of affairs for this yr’s train is {that a} so-called grey zone scenario marked by coercive actions that can’t be instantly judged navy actions occurred in a Japanese island space.

The state of affairs additionally holds that an SDF destroyer was attacked, prompting the federal government to declare that Japan is in a scenario through which its survival has been threatened.

On the island of Tokunoshima in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, a drill involving troops making an attempt to land on the island and people defending it will likely be performed.

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