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GSDF ends support mission in heavy rain-hit Ishikawa Pref. city

People pose for a photo with Japan Ground Self-Defense Force members during a ceremony in Suzu, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Dec. 17, 2024, after the GSDF completes its activities to support local people affected by record-setting torrential rain in September. The GSDF set up a bathing facility for people in the central Japan city after the water supply was cut in the wake of the rain.

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GSDF ends support mission in heavy rain-hit Ishikawa Pref. city

People wave to a vehicle carrying Japan Ground Self-Defense Force members leaving Suzu, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Dec. 17, 2024, after the GSDF completes its activities to support local people affected by record-setting torrential rain in September. The GSDF set up a bathing facility for people in the central Japan city after the water supply was cut in the wake of the rain.

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GSDF ends support mission in heavy rain-hit Ishikawa Pref. city

People wave to a vehicle carrying Japan Ground Self-Defense Force members leaving Suzu, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Dec. 17, 2024, after the GSDF completes its activities to support local people affected by record-setting torrential rain in September. The GSDF set up a bathing facility for people in the central Japan city after the water supply was cut in the wake of the rain.

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GSDF ends support mission in heavy rain-hit Ishikawa Pref. city

A man bows to a Japan Ground Self-Defense Force member during a ceremony in Suzu, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Dec. 17, 2024, as the GSDF completes its activities to support local people affected by record-setting torrential rain in September. The GSDF set up a bathing facility for people in the central Japan city after the water supply was cut in the wake of the rain.

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Kiev rocked by explosions amid airstrikes

STORY: Kiev rocked by explosions amid airstrikes SHOOTING TIME: March 25, 2024 DATELINE: March 25, 2024 LENGTH: 00:00:28 LOCATION: Kiev CATEGORY: MILITARY SHOTLIST: 1. wide of Kiev residents evacuating amid explosions STORYLINE: Kiev was hit by a wave of explosions on Sunday morning as Russia launched the third attack on Ukraine in four days, Ukrainian authorities said. Russia fired 29 cruise missiles from 14 Tu-95MC fighters and 28 Shahed drones at Ukraine, the Ukrainian Air Force said, adding that 18 missiles and 25 drones were shot down by the air defense in southern, northern, central and western Ukraine. According to preliminary reports, there were no casualties in the attack on the Ukrainian capital. A fire erupted in a critical infrastructure facility in the western Lviv region after it was attacked by missiles and drones, Lviv region's governor Maksym Kozytskyi said on Telegram, without giving further details. Local media reported hearing blasts during an air alert in the western Kh

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Japanese novelist Mishima

TOKYO, Japan, Sept. 22 Kyodo - Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima makes a speech at a Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force facility in Tokyo on Nov. 25, 1970, just before his dramatic suicide.(Kyodo)

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Shooting incident at GSDF firing range in central Japan

Japan Ground Self-Defense Force personnel gather near the entrance of a firing range in Gifu, central Japan, on June 14, 2023, after two GSDF members were killed and another injured after being shot at the facility by a trainee with a rifle earlier in the day. The 18-year-old male GSDF trainee who fired the rifle was arrested at the site, according to police.

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Shooting incident at GSDF firing range in central Japan

Japan Ground Self-Defense Force personnel gather near the entrance of a firing range in Gifu, central Japan, on June 14, 2023, after two GSDF members were killed and another injured after being shot at the facility by a trainee with a rifle earlier in the day. The 18-year-old male GSDF trainee who fired the rifle was arrested at the site, according to police.

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ASDF Space Operations Group facility

File photo taken on March 5, 2023, shows radar facilities operated by a Japan Air Self-Defense Force Space Operations Group unit in the Yamaguchi Prefecture city of Sanyoonoda, western Japan. The group was established in Fuchu, Tokyo, in March 2022 mainly for space debris surveillance.

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ASDF Space Operations Group facility

File photo taken on March 5, 2023, shows radar facilities operated by a Japan Air Self-Defense Force Space Operations Group unit in the Yamaguchi Prefecture city of Sanyoonoda, western Japan. The group was established in Fuchu, Tokyo, in March 2022 mainly for space debris surveillance.

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ASDF Space Operations Group facility

File photo taken on March 5, 2023, shows radar facilities operated by a Japan Air Self-Defense Force Space Operations Group unit in the Yamaguchi Prefecture city of Sanyoonoda, western Japan. The group was established in Fuchu, Tokyo, in March 2022 mainly for space debris surveillance.

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ASDF Space Operations Group facility

File photo taken on March 5, 2023, shows radar facilities operated by a Japan Air Self-Defense Force Space Operations Group unit in the Yamaguchi Prefecture city of Sanyoonoda, western Japan. The group was established in Fuchu, Tokyo, in March 2022 mainly for space debris surveillance.

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Some Yonaguni residents oppose building of GSDF facility

YONAGUNI, Japan - Some residents of Yonaguni Island, the westernmost Japanese island near a group of islands whose ownership is contested by China, voice opposition to the construction of a facility for a coastal surveillance unit of the Ground Self-Defense Force near the groundbreaking ceremony venue on the island on April 19, 2014. The residents are concerned that because of the GSDF presence only about 150 kilometers north of the Japanese-administered Senkaku Islands, the island could become a target in times of contingency involving Japan and China.

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Japan's antipiracy patrol in Gulf of Aden

DJIBOUTI, Djibouti - Photo taken July 8, 2012, shows the restaurant of a facility in Djibouti where Japanese Self-Defense Force personnel participating in antipiracy operations in the Gulf of Aden off Somalia live.

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Japan's antipiracy patrol in Gulf of Aden

DJIBOUTI, Djibouti - Photo taken July 8, 2012, shows the gymnasium of a facility in Djibouti where Japanese Self-Defense Force personnel participating in antipiracy operations in the Gulf of Aden off Somalia live.

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U.S. pitches spy drone to Japan

LOS ANGELES, United States - Photo shows a control facility for unmanned surveillance aircraft shown at Edwards Air Force Base in California on Oct. 5, 2010. The U.S. Air Force and Northrop Grumman Corp. showed off the Block 20 Global Hawk, which the Japanese Defense Ministry is considering buying, for the first time to the Japanese media

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Stones thrown at GSDF vehicle in Iraq, mirror broken

SAMAWAH, Iraq - Protesters threw stones at a line of Japanese troop vehicles in Iraq on Dec. 4, breaking a mirror on one of the vehicles, officials of the Ground Self-Defense Force said. The incident took place in Rumaythah near the GSDF's camp in Samawah as about 40 armed demonstrators surrounded a facility that GSDF personnel had repaired during a ceremony to mark completion of the repairs.

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GSDF training troops for Iraq dispatch at facility in Miyagi Pref.

SENDAI, Japan - Over 100 tents and armored vehicles are seen at Ojojihara training ground in Miyagi Prefecture of the Ground Self-Defense Force in a photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Sept. 14. Japanese troops appear to be training for an aid mission to southern Iraq.

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(1)Drilling facility resembling GSDF camp in Samawah unveiled

YAMANASHI, Japan - A mock drilling facility resembling the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force camp in Iraq's Samawah is unveiled to the media June 15 at Kitafuji drilling ground in Yamanashi Prefecture. The facility is used by GSDF personnel to be dispatched to Samawah. (Pool photo)

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(2)Drilling facility resembling GSDF camp in Samawah unveiled

YAMANASHI, Japan - Ground Self-Defense Force personnel (wearing camouflage) answer questions from the media at Kitafuji drilling ground in Yamanashi Prefecture on June 15 as the GSDF unveiled to the media a mock drilling facility resembling a GSDF camp in Iraq's Samawah. (Pool photo)

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Thousands protest planned SDF dispatch to Iraq

ASAHIKAWA, Japan - Thousands of people in stage a demonstration rally around a facility of the Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) Northern Army 2nd Division in Asahikawa, Hokkaido, on Dec. 14 to protest Japan's plan to send Self-Defense Forces (SDF) troops to Iraq.

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Top court upholds defense data disclosure by Naha mayor

NAHA, Japan - Lawyers for the Naha municipal government speak at a press conference at the Okinawa prefectural government on July 13 after the Supreme Court dismissed a central government objection to a decision by the Naha municipal government to disclose information on a defense facility. The court said it is appropriate that the Naha mayor decided in 1989 to disclose plans and other documents on construction of an antisubmarine warfare operation center of the Maritime Self-Defense Force in response to a request by local residents.

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Stones thrown at GSDF vehicle in Iraq, mirror broken

SAMAWAH, Iraq - Protesters threw stones at a line of Japanese troop vehicles in Iraq on Dec. 4, breaking a mirror on one of the vehicles, officials of the Ground Self-Defense Force said. The incident took place in Rumaythah near the GSDF's camp in Samawah as about 40 armed demonstrators surrounded a facility that GSDF personnel had repaired during a ceremony to mark completion of the repairs. (Kyodo)

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Japan sets up ground force unit near islets disputed by China

Personnel of Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force stand guard near the entrance of their newly established facility on Japan's westernmost island of Yonaguni, Okinawa Prefecture, on March 28, 2016. The Defense Agency set up a unit of about 160 GSDF members the same day on the remote island to keep a close watch on Chinese maritime activities, particularly around the Japan-administered Senkaku Islands, which Beijing claims. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese soldier helps training in use of heavy machinery in Africa

A Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force member prepares to get into a heavy machine at a training facility in Nairobi, Kenya, on Sept. 7, 2015. Eleven GSDF members began a training program the same day for officers from various African nations on how to operate heavy machinery as part of Japan's support for U.N. peacekeeping operations in the region. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Missing boy found in northern Japan

Photo taken June 3, 2016, from a Kyodo News airplane shows an exercise area of the Ground Self-Defense Force (foreground) in the northern Japan town of Shikabe. Yamato Tanooka, 7, was found safe at the facility marked by an arrow six days after being left behind by his parents as punishment for misbehaving. The boy was left in the forest seen in the top of the photo. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's defense head meets Vietnam's Communist Party chief

Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani (L) meets with Vietnamese Communist Party chief Nguyen Phu Trong in Hanoi on Nov. 6, 2015. Earlier, Nakatani told his Vietnamese counterpart Phung Quang Thanh that Japan would send its Maritime Self-Defense Force vessel to a naval port in Cam Ranh Bay for a ceremony opening a port facility in early 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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S. Korean land purchase in Tsushima stirs security concerns

TSUSHIMA, Japan - The photo, taken on Feb. 25, 2010, shows a lodge mainly accommodating South Korean fishers located next to a Maritime Self-Defense Force facility in Tsushima. (Kyodo)

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Kan visits disaster-hit areas

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan visits the J-village athletic training facility around 20 kilometers from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture on April 2, 2011, to see members of the Ground Self-Defense Force. Kan encouraged SDF personnel and civilian workers trying to contain the crisis at the nuclear power station during his visit to disaster-hit areas. (Photo courtesy of Cabinet Public Relations Office) (Kyodo)

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U.S. pitches spy drone to Japan

LOS ANGELES, United States - Photo shows a control facility for unmanned surveillance aircraft shown at Edwards Air Force Base in California on Oct. 5, 2010. The U.S. Air Force and Northrop Grumman Corp. showed off the Block 20 Global Hawk, which the Japanese Defense Ministry is considering buying, for the first time to the Japanese media (Kyodo)

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Scenes of Antarctic

Mountains in Antarctica and ice (front) floating in the Antarctic Sea are seen in this photo taken Dec. 17, 2016, from a helicopter of Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force carrying people and supplies to Showa Station, a Japanese research facility on the Antarctica, from the icebreaker Shirase. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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GSDF nurses at hospital treating coronavirus patients

Ground Self-Defense Force nurses enter on Dec. 15, 2020, a medical facility in Osaka recently set up by the Osaka prefectural government in response to a rise in seriously ill coronavirus patients. (Pool photo)

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Novelist Mishima

File photo taken on Nov. 25, 1970, at a Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force facility in Tokyo shows Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima making a speech just before his dramatic suicide. A book featuring a collection of previously unpublished photographs of Mishima taken by renowned Japanese photographer Kishin Shinoyama was released in the United States ahead of the 50th anniversary of the writer's suicide on Nov. 25, 2020.

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Trump in Japan

U.S. President Donald Trump (L) prepares to board a helicopter at Akasaka Press Center, a U.S. Army facility in Tokyo, on May 28, 2019. Trump flew to the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force's base in Yokosuka where he and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe inspected the helicopter-carrying destroyer Kaga docked at the base south of Tokyo. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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ASDF drill to deploy PAC3 interceptor in Okinawa

The Air Self-Defense Force conducts a drill for deploying Patriot Advanced Capability-3 ballistic missile interceptors on Sept. 29, 2017, at a facility in Naha, Okinawa, to prepare for North Korean missile launches. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Air show held at tsunami-hit ASDF base for 1st time in 7 years

The Blue Impulse of the Air Self-Defense Force Matsushima Air Base demonstrates precision flying aerobatics on Aug. 27, 2017, for the first air show in seven years at the base in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture. The air base had suspended the event after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami heavily damaged the facility. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Air show held at tsunami-hit ASDF base for 1st time in 7 years

The Blue Impulse of the Air Self-Defense Force Matsushima Air Base demonstrates precision flying aerobatics on Aug. 27, 2017, for the first air show in seven years at the base in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture. The air base had suspended the event after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami heavily damaged the facility. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Air show held at tsunami-hit ASDF base for 1st time in 7 years

The Blue Impulse of the Air Self-Defense Force Matsushima Air Base demonstrates precision flying aerobatics on Aug. 27, 2017, for the first air show in seven years at the base in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture. The air base had suspended the event after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami heavily damaged the facility. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Air show held at tsunami-hit ASDF base for 1st time in 7 years

The Blue Impulse of the Air Self-Defense Force Matsushima Air Base demonstrates precision flying aerobatics on Aug. 27, 2017, for the first air show in seven years at the base in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture. The air base had suspended the event after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami heavily damaged the facility. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese peacekeepers ready to perform rescue mission in S. Sudan

A base for the U.N. peacekeeping operations in South Sudan is pictured Dec. 11, 2016, in the capital Juba. A unit of Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force engaging in the U.N. mission is quartered in the facility. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's GSDF involved in PKO in Juba

Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force personnel work to set up safety shields at a facility for peacekeeping operations in Juba, South Sudan, on Nov. 16, 2016. Refugee camp is seen in the back. The Japanese government has decided to assign GSDF personnel a controversial new security duty -- rescuing U.N. staff and others under attack -- during peacekeeping operations there. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's GSDF involved in PKO in Juba

A child in a refugee camp watches Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force personnel working at a facility for peacekeeping operations in Juba, South Sudan, on Nov. 16, 2016. The Japanese government has decided to assign GSDF personnel a controversial new security duty -- rescuing U.N. staff and others under attack -- during peacekeeping operations there. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan troops given new security role for U.N. mission in S. Sudan

Japanese ground Self-Defense Force personnel set up safety shields at a facility for peacekeeping operations in Juba, South Sudan, on Nov. 14, 2016. The Japanese government decided on Nov. 15 to assign GSDF personnel a controversial new security duty -- rescuing U.N. staff and others under attack -- during peacekeeping operations there. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan troops given new security role for U.N. mission in S. Sudan

Japanese ground Self-Defense Force personnel set up safety shields at a facility for peacekeeping operations in Juba, South Sudan, on Nov. 14, 2016. The Japanese government decided on Nov. 15 to assign GSDF personnel a controversial new security duty -- rescuing U.N. staff and others under attack -- during peacekeeping operations there. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan troops given new security role for U.N. mission in S. Sudan

Japanese ground Self-Defense Force personnel set up safety shields at a facility for peacekeeping operations in Juba, South Sudan, on Nov. 14, 2016. The Japanese government decided on Nov. 15 to assign GSDF personnel a controversial new security duty -- rescuing U.N. staff and others under attack -- during peacekeeping operations there. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan troops given new security role for U.N. mission in S. Sudan

Japanese ground Self-Defense Force personnel set up safety shields at a facility for peacekeeping operations in Juba, South Sudan, on Nov. 14, 2016. The Japanese government decided on Nov. 15 to assign GSDF personnel a controversial new security duty -- rescuing U.N. staff and others under attack -- during peacekeeping operations there. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese troops given new security role for U.N. mission in S. Sudan

A Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force vehicle heads to a U.N. peacekeeping facility in Juba, South Sudan, on Nov. 15, 2016. Japan decided the same day to assign SDF personnel a new security duty -- rescuing U.N. staff and others under attack -- during peacekeeping operations in the conflict-mired African country. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese troops given new security role for U.N. mission in S. Sudan

A Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force vehicle heads to a U.N. peacekeeping facility in Juba, South Sudan, on Nov. 15, 2016. Japan decided the same day to assign SDF personnel a new security duty -- rescuing U.N. staff and others under attack -- during peacekeeping operations in the conflict-mired African country. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's peacekeeping operations South Sudan

Members of Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force work near the main entrance to a facility for U.N. peacekeeping operations in Juba, South Sudan, on Aug. 25, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's peacekeeping operations South Sudan

Members of Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force work within the premises of a facility for U.N. peacekeeping operations in Juba, South Sudan, on Aug. 25, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo