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Death toll climbs after Japan quake, self-defense forces dispatched

STORY: Death toll climbs after Japan quake, self-defense forces dispatched SHOOTING TIME: Jan. 1-2, 2024 DATELINE: Jan. 2, 2024 LENGTH: 00:00:00 LOCATION: Tokyo CATEGORY: OTHERS SHOTLIST: 1. STANDUP (English): ZHANG XIAOYU, Xinhua correspondent 2. various of scenes of the earthquake STORYLINE: STANDUP (English): ZHANG XIAOYU, Xinhua correspondent "The death toll has been climbing after a series of powerful earthquakes hit the area in central Japan and the vicinity. A series of building collapses and fires left dozens of people dead in the most-hit Ishikawa prefecture. As more damage reports and information about people trapped continued to come in regarding other municipalities, injuries were reported in Niigata, Toyama, Fukui and Gifu prefectures due to collapsed or damaged buildings. Calling the rescue of those impacted by the earthquakes a battle against time, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said that the government has already dispatched a number of self-defense force troops to the impacted ar

ASDF to supply drinking water to eruption-hit Tonga

Preparation is under way at the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force's Komaki base in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, on Jan. 20, 2022, to airlift drinking water to Australia for supply to Tonga. An undersea volcanic eruption in mid-January triggered a tsunami that caused severe damage to the South Pacific island nation. The Self-Defense Forces airplanes carrying potable water left Komaki Air Base in Aichi Prefecture on the night of the day.

Destroyer primary cause of collision with boat: tribunal

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Photo shows the bow (in front) of the fishing boat Seitoku Maru drifting in the Pacific off Chiba Prefecture on Feb. 19, 2008, after it split in two following the collision with Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Atago equipped with the high-tech Aegis defense system. The two crewmembers on the fishing boat went missing. The Yokohama Marine Accident Tribunal on Jan. 22 determined that the destroyer was the main cause of the collision. (Kyodo)

ASDF conducts 1st field survey for Tokyo missile shield candidat

TOKYO, Japan - Members of Air Self-Defense Force set up antennas to test radio on Jan. 14 at Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward ahead of the Defense Ministry's first field survey for deploying the land-based ballistic missile interceptor to defend the Japanese capital. The photo was taken on Jan. 14, 2008. (Kyodo)

Mori makes SDF naval review in Sagami Bay

YOKOSUKA, Japan - Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori (C) calls on the Self-Defense Forces (SDF) on Oct. 29 to play a major role in improving Japan's international reputation as a trustworthy country. Speaking at an SDF naval review aboard the destroyer Shirane in Sagami Bay off Kanagawa Prefecture, Mori said, ''I'm proud the SDF has contributed much to international peace by playing its role'' in U.N. peacekeeping missions.

Senior defense officer arrested for alleged espionage

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows the Defense Agency's National Institute for Defense Studies in Tokyo's Meguro Ward, one of whose top officers, Lt. Commander Shigehiro Hagisaki, was arrested Sept. 8 on suspicion of violating the Self-Defense Forces (SDF) Law. Hagisaki allegedly passed defense secrets to the Russian military attache, identified by the Metropolitan Police Department as Victor Bogatenkov, 44, a resident of Tokyo's Minato Ward. Bogatenkov cannot be arrested as he has diplomatic immunity.

Japan begins destroying land mines

SHINASAHI, Japan - Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi (2nd from L) pushes a button sending a signal to destroy antipersonnel land mines belonging to the Self-Defense Forces (SDF), in a ceremony held Jan. 17 at an Air Self-Defense Force base located next to an ''explosion dome'' in Shinasahi, Shiga Prefecture, western Japan. The action was taken under the 1997 Ottawa treaty to ban antipersonnel land mines, which took effect in March last year. The SDF and Asahi Chemical Industry Co., which has been commissioned for the task, will destroy nearly one million antipersonnel land mines belonging to the SDF by 2003.

Obuchi attends memorial service for 4 SDF members

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi (R) delivers an eulogy at a memorial service held at the Defense Agency in Tokyo on Oct. 30 for members of the Self-Defense Forces who were killed while on duty in the past year. Four SDF members died in the year through last August in duty-related accidents or illness, bringing the total number of Japanese military personnel killed in line of duty to 1,687 since 1950.

Ground, maritime, air forces hold 1st joint drill

Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force troops land Nov. 15 on the Iwojima Island from transport ship. The ground, maritime and air forces of Japan's Self-Defense Forces (SDF) held their first-ever joint drill Nov. 15 on Iwojima Island in the Pacific south of Tokyo. airborne troops descended from C-1 transport planes, while other vessels and aircraft supported the operation around the island.

SDF, Asahi Chemical begin destroying land mines

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