The new base will be “essential” for US aircraft carriers, giving them the opportunity to permanently operate in the Asia-Pacific region.
Japan will build a base for Self-Defense Forces on the uninhabited Mage island in Kagoshima in line with plans to shift military exercises of American carrier-based fighters. On Thursday, January 12, Japan Today reported.
Initially, runways and ammunition depots will be built. Then the planes will be brought to the island.
The project would pave the way for the relocation of the US fighter training ground from Iwoto Island in the Pacific, about 1,250 kilometers south of Tokyo.
“The new base is indispensable for American aircraft carriers, which are always in the Asia-Pacific region,” the statement said.
The publication recalls that earlier the US Navy practiced taking off and landing aircraft near Tokyo, but in the early 1990s they moved the training site to the island of Ioto in the Pacific Ocean, 1250 km south of Tokyo. . At the same time, the planes were transferred to another American military base in western Japan in the area of the city of Iwakuni: between this base and the island of Ioto – 1.4 thousand km. In turn, Mage Island is 400 km from Iwakuni.
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