Japan begins construction of new SDF base for U.S. fighter jet drills

Japan begins construction of new SDF base for U.S. fighter jet drills

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Jan. 12, 2023, shows Mage Island in Nishinoomote, Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan. Construction work started the same day on the uninhabited island about 990 kilometers southwest of Tokyo in the East China Sea for a Japan Self-Defense Forces base, to be used as a site for U.S. fighter jet drills, relocated from Iwoto Island in the Pacific.

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