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Japanese SDF, U.S. military Plan Joint Antiterror Exercises

The Defense Agency of Japan decided Tuesday to conduct nine days of exercises with the U.S. military at Camp Zama and Sagami general depot at Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, starting Thursday under the revised law allowing the Self-Defense Forces to guard U.S. military installations in Japan.


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The Defense Agency of Japan decided Tuesday to conduct nine days of exercises with the U.S. military at Camp Zama and Sagami general depot at Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, starting Thursday under the revised law allowing the Self-Defense Forces to guard U.S. military installations in Japan.

About 180 SDF personnel, mostly from the Ground Self-Defense Force's Zama station, will conduct exercises such as surveillance, vehicle inspection and command control as part of antiterrorism measures to protect U.S. military installations.

SDF vehicles will include one equipped to clean up after biological or chemical attacks and SDF personnel will carry rifles and pistols, although they will not conduct firing drills, a senior SDF official said.




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