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[Breaking News]Japan PM Ishiba at GSDF inspection ceremony

SAITAMA, Japan, Nov. 9 Kyodo - Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba attends a troop inspection ceremony at the Ground Self-Defense Force's Asaka base straddling Tokyo and Saitama Prefecture on Nov. 9, 2024, on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the Self-Defense Forces. (Kyodo)

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Japan PM Ishiba at GSDF inspection ceremony

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba attends a troop inspection ceremony at the Ground Self-Defense Force's Asaka base straddling Tokyo and Saitama Prefecture on Nov. 9, 2024, on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the Self-Defense Forces.

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Japan PM Ishiba at GSDF inspection ceremony

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (C) attends a troop inspection ceremony at the Ground Self-Defense Force's Asaka base straddling Tokyo and Saitama Prefecture on Nov. 9, 2024, on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the Self-Defense Forces.

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Japan PM Ishiba at GSDF inspection ceremony

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (L) and Defense Minister Gen Nakatani (R) attend a troop inspection ceremony at the Ground Self-Defense Force's Asaka base straddling Tokyo and Saitama Prefecture on Nov. 9, 2024, on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the Self-Defense Forces.

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Japan PM Ishiba at GSDF inspection ceremony

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (R) attends a troop inspection ceremony at the Ground Self-Defense Force's Asaka base straddling Tokyo and Saitama Prefecture on Nov. 9, 2024, on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the Self-Defense Forces.

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Japan PM Ishiba at GSDF inspection ceremony

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (R) attends a troop inspection ceremony at the Ground Self-Defense Force's Asaka base straddling Tokyo and Saitama Prefecture on Nov. 9, 2024, on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the Self-Defense Forces.

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Tokyo Olympics:Shooting

A Mongolian coach has the Olympic rings cut and colored into his hair as he watches the shooting game at the Tokyo Olympic Games.Date: August 2, 2021Place: Asaka Shooting Range in Saitama Prefecture, JAPAN

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Tokyo Olympics:Shooting

Vitalina Batsarashkina of the Russian Olympic Committee displays her gold medal for the women's 25-meter pistol shooting at the Tokyo Olympics. Date: July 30, 2021 Place: Asaka Shooting Range in Saitama Prefecture near Tokyo, JAPAN

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Tokyo Olympics:Shooting

Vitalina Batsarashkina of the Russian Olympic Committee displays her gold medal for the women's 25-meter pistol shooting at the Tokyo Olympics. Date: July 30, 2021 Place: Asaka Shooting Range in Saitama Prefecture near Tokyo, JAPAN

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Judo: Japan women in training

France's Clarisse Agbegnenou (L) poses next to Japan's Olympic champion Uta Abe after taking part in a training camp for the Japanese women's judo team in Asaka, Saitama Prefecture, eastern Japan, on March 8, 2023. (Pool photo)

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Judo: Japan women in training

Olympic champion Uta Abe (R) grapples with her opponent during a training camp for the Japanese women's judo team in Asaka, Saitama Prefecture, eastern Japan, on March 8, 2023. (Pool photo)

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Japan, U.S. hold joint military exercise in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force and the U.S. military hold an opening ceremony for their joint command post exercise codenamed "Yama Sakura" (Mountain Cherry) at the GSDF's Camp Asaka in Tokyo on Dec. 8, 2014.

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GSDF troops inspection ceremony

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks at an inspection ceremony at the Ground Self-Defense Force's Camp Asaka in Saitama Prefecture on Oct. 27, 2013.

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GSDF troops inspection ceremony

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Oct. 27, 2013, shows a U.S. amphibious assault vehicle on display at the Ground Self-Defense Force's Camp Asaka in Saitama Prefecture. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attended an inspection ceremony at the camp the same day.

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GSDF troops inspection ceremony

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attends an inspection ceremony at the Ground Self-Defense Force's Camp Asaka in Saitama Prefecture on Oct. 27, 2013.

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Japan deploys missile interceptors

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Dec. 6, 2012, shows a Patriot Advanced Capability-3 missile interceptor having been deployed at the Ground Self-Defense Force's Asaka training field in Saitama Prefecture to intercept a North Korean rocket if it appears to be falling on Japanese territory. North Korea says it plans to launch a rocket carrying an "earth observation satellite" sometime between Dec. 10 and 22.

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Disaster mitigation drill for Tokyo quake

TOKYO, Japan - Members of Japan's Self-Defense Forces and U.S. forces hold a joint disaster reduction drill at the Ground Self-Defense Force Eastern Army's Asaka garrison on July 19, 2012, in simulation of a major quake hitting the Tokyo metropolitan area.

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Disaster mitigation drill for Tokyo quake

TOKYO, Japan - Members of Japan's Self-Defense Forces and U.S. forces hold a joint disaster reduction drill at the Ground Self-Defense Force Eastern Army's Asaka garrison on July 19, 2012, in simulation of a major quake hitting the Tokyo metropolitan area.

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Noda to freeze housing project for civil servants

ASAKA, Japan - Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (C) speaks to reporters in Asaka, Saitama Prefecture, on Oct. 3, 2011, after seeing a construction site for a controversial housing project for public servants in the city which has drawn flak as an example of wasteful government spending. Noda instructed Finance Minister Jun Azumi later in the day to freeze the 10.5 billion yen project. (Pool Photo by Kyodo News)

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Protests against housing project for civil servants

SAITAMA, Japan - Protesters gather in Asaka, Saitama Prefecture, on Oct. 3, 2011, ahead of Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's visit to the construction site of a controversial housing project for public servants in the city which has drawn flak as an example of wasteful government spending.

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Noda to freeze housing project for civil servants

ASAKA, Japan - Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (C) speaks to reporters in Asaka, Saitama Prefecture, on Oct. 3, 2011, after seeing a construction site for a controversial housing project for public servants in the city which has drawn flak as an example of wasteful government spending. Noda instructed Finance Minister Jun Azumi later in the day to freeze the 10.5 billion yen project. (Pool Photo by Kyodo News)

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Construction site of housing for public servants in Asaka

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Oct. 1, 2011, shows a construction site for a housing complex for public servants in Asaka, Saitama Prefecture, which has drawn flak as an example of wasteful government spending.

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Incumbent wins Saitama gubernatorial election

ASAKA, Japan - Saitama Gov. Kiyoshi Ueda receives a bouquet after securing his reelection for a third four-year term in Asaka, Saitama Prefecture, on July 31, 2011.

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Tank to clear rubble at Fukushima plant

TOKYO, Japan - A Type 74 tank of the Ground Self-Defense Force arrives at a GSDF garrison in Asaka, Saitama Prefecture, in the evening of March 20, 2011. The Defense Ministry disclosed a plan the same day to use the type of tanks to clear rubble in the premises of the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture. The rubble has been an obstacle to operations to cool reactors at the plant.

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Kan sees security situation around Japan getting more severe

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Naoto Kan attends a Ground Self-Defense Force inspection parade at Asaka base in Saitama Prefecture on Oct. 24, 2010. Kan said the security situation around Japan has become more severe, given North Korea's missile and nuclear development programs, as well as the intensification of China's maritime activities.

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Kan sees security situation around Japan getting more severe

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Naoto Kan speaks at a Ground Self-Defense Force inspection parade at Asaka base in Saitama Prefecture on Oct. 24, 2010. Kan said the security situation around Japan has become more severe, given North Korea's missile and nuclear development programs, as well as the intensification of China's maritime activities.

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Kan sees security situation around Japan getting more severe

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Naoto Kan attends a Ground Self-Defense Force inspection parade at Asaka base in Saitama Prefecture on Oct. 24, 2010. Kan said the security situation around Japan has become more severe, given North Korea's missile and nuclear development programs, as well as the intensification of China's maritime activities.

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Patriot guided-missile unit set at GSDF garrison

ASAKA, Japan - A Patriot ground-to-air guided-missile unit is deployed at the Ground Self-Defense Force's garrison in Asaka, Saitama Prefecture, on March 28 to provide protection against a possible rocket incursion from North Korea. N. Korea says it will launch a satellite between April 4 and 8.

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Fukuda urges Defense Ministry, SDF to shape up

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda (C) attends an annual review of the Self-Defense Forces (SDF) at the Ground Self-Defense Force Camp Asaka in Tokyo on Oct. 28. Some 4,200 troops, 70 aircraft and 230 ground vehicles took part in the ceremony.

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Fukuda urges Defense Ministry, SDF to shape up

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda (L), flanked by Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba, speaks during an annual review of the Self-Defense Forces (SDF) at the Ground Self-Defense Force Camp Asaka in Tokyo on Oct. 28. Fukuda urged the staff of the ministry and the SDF to shape up in the wake of a series of scandals involving them.

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(1) SDF to be more efficient, better at anti-terror: Koizumi

NIIZA, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (L) stands on the stand along with Defense Agency Director General Yoshinori Ono (R) to review an annual parade of Ground Self-Defense Force troops at the GSDF Asaka training site in Niiza, Saitama Prefecture, on Nov. 7.

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(2)SDF to be more efficient, better at anti-terror: Koizumi

NIIZA, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi addresses Ground Self-Defense Force troops takin part in at an annual review at the GSDF Asaka training site in Niiza, Saitama Prefecture, on Nov. 7. The premier said that Japan will make the Self-Defense Forces a more streamlined entity and better at combating terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

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(1)Journalists to be sent to Iraq undergo training

TOKYO, Japan - A group of journalists due to accompany Japan's Self-Defense Force troops to be dispatched to Iraq undergo field training at the Ground Self-Defense Force garrison in Tokyo's Asaka on Jan. 8.

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(2)Journalists to be sent to Iraq undergo training

TOKYO, Japan - Journalists due to accompany Japan's Self-Defense Force troops to be sent to Iraq put on gas masks before they undergo field training at the Ground Self-Defense Force garrison in Tokyo's Asaka on Jan. 8.

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Mugen's Honda arrested for alleged tax evasion

ASAKA, Japan - Tax officials enter the offices of racing car engine maker Mugen Co. in Asaka, Saitama Prefecture, on July 1. Public prosecutors arrested the company's President Hirotoshi Honda the same day on suspicion of evading 1 billion yen in corporate tax.

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Star seal Tama-chan grows new fur

SAITAMA, Japan - A popular stray bearded seal called ''Tama chan'' (above) that has molted and grown new fur is spotted on its favorite boat in the Ara River in Asaka, Saitama Prefecture on June 11. Tama-chan in old fur is in the photo below taken on May 11.

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Fishing hook stuck in Tama-chan's face gone

ASAKA, Japan - A seal believed to be the popular ''Tama-chan'' appeared again May 11 in the Ara River in Asaka, Saitama Prefecture, but without the fishing hook that had been embedded in the right eye for about a week.

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(2)Suspected projectile launcher found in Tokyo park

TOKYO, Japan - A photo taken Nov. 21 shows Oizumi-Chuo Park (fore) in Tokyo's Nerima ward and the Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) Asaka base (back) which straddles between Tokyo and Saitama prefectures. Police found two metal pipes at the park in what they suspect was a home-made automatic projectile launcher Japanese militants used to attack the base.

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Actress Asaka marries drummer

TOKYO, Japan - Actress Yui Asaka, 32, speaks with members of the media in Tokyo on July 23 on her marriage with pop music drummer Takahiro Nishikawa, 39. She said the couple registered their marriage on July 21 but had no plans for a wedding ceremony.

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Hijackers' daughters arrive in Japan

NARITA, Japan - Three daughters of former Red Army Faction members, who hijacked a Japan Airlines (JAL) plane in 1970 and forced it to fly to North Korea, sit for a news conference after their arrival at Narita airport May 15. (From L to R) Azumi Tanaka, 22, Asaka Tamiya, 22, and Ritsuko Konishi, 23. On the flight to Narita, Tamiya, in an interview with Kyodo News, described the hijacking committed by her father and other members of the radical group as ''senseless'' and ''wrong.''

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Hijackers' daughters leave N. Korea for Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Three daughters of former Red Army Faction cadres are seen in photo taken by a supporter in March in Pyongyang. Shown are Asaka Tamiya (L), 22, daughter of Takamaro Tamiya, deceased leader of the hijackers' group; Azumi Tanaka (C), 22, daughter of Yoshimi Tanaka; and Ritsuko Konishi, 23, daughter of Takahiro Konishi. The three daughters, whose fathers defected to North Korea after hijacking a Japan Airlines plane in 1970, left Pyongyang on May 15 for Japan via China.

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Japan upper house election campaign

Natsuo Yamaguchi, the leader of Komeito, the junior coalition partner of the Liberal Democratic Party, makes a speech in Asaka in Saitama Prefecture, eastern Japan, on July 6, 2022, for the House of Councillors election on July 10.

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Japan's COVID-19 vaccination efforts

Members of Japan's Self-Defense Forces attend a ceremony marking the start of preparations to open a large-scale COVID-19 vaccination center in Tokyo amid a rapid spread of the Omicron variant, at the Ground Self-Defense Force's Asaka base straddling Tokyo and Saitama Prefecture on Jan. 24, 2022. (Pool photo)

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Japan's COVID-19 vaccination efforts

Members of Japan's Self-Defense Forces attend a ceremony marking the start of preparations to open a large-scale COVID-19 vaccination center in Tokyo amid a rapid spread of the Omicron variant, at the Ground Self-Defense Force's Asaka base straddling Tokyo and Saitama Prefecture on Jan. 24, 2022.

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Japan PM Kishida at Self-Defense Force base

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida takes a ride in a tank during his visit to the Ground Self-Defense Force's Asaka base straddling Tokyo and Saitama Prefecture on Nov. 27, 2021. (Pool photo)

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Japan PM Kishida at Self-Defense Force base

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida takes a ride in a tank during his visit to the Ground Self-Defense Force's Asaka base straddling Tokyo and Saitama Prefecture on Nov. 27, 2021. (Pool photo)

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Japan PM Kishida at Self-Defense Force base

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (2nd from L) visits the Ground Self-Defense Force's Asaka base straddling Tokyo and Saitama Prefecture on Nov. 27, 2021. (Pool photo)

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Japan PM Kishida at Self-Defense Force base

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (front L) visits the Ground Self-Defense Force's Asaka base straddling Tokyo and Saitama Prefecture on Nov. 27, 2021. (Pool photo)

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Japan PM Kishida at Self-Defense Force base

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida makes a speech during his visit to the Ground Self-Defense Force's Asaka base straddling Tokyo and Saitama Prefecture on Nov. 27, 2021. (Pool photo)

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Japan PM Kishida at Self-Defense Force base

Ground Self-Defense Force members listen to a speech by Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida during his visit to the GSDF's Asaka base straddling Tokyo and Saitama Prefecture on Nov. 27, 2021. (Pool photo)