Mayor vows to help gov't survey on Ishigaki Island for SDF deployment

Mayor vows to help gov't survey on Ishigaki Island for SDF deployment

Ishigaki Mayor Yoshitaka Nakayama (R) holds talks with Akira Sato (front), senior vice minister of defense, at the Ishigaki city government offices on May 11, 2015. During the meeting, the mayor pledged to help the Defense Ministry examine candidate sites for the deployment of Ground Self-Defense Force troops on his island as part of Japan's effort to boost the country's defense of remote islands in the region amid a territorial row with China in the East China Sea. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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