GSDF troops conduct drill to take back remote island

AMAMI, Japan - Ground Self-Defense Force troops conduct a landing exercise on Eniyabanare Island in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on May 22, 2014, in a simulated operation to take back an enemy-occupied remote island amid strained ties with China over a territorial dispute involving a group of islets in the East China Sea.

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