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Live-fire drill for defending remote isles

GOTEMBA, Japan - Japan's Ground, Maritime and Air Self-Defense Forces conduct Aug. 26, 2012, a major annual artillery live-fire drill in Shizuoka Prefecture. The GSDF's fire power exercise at the East Fuji training area, which was open to the public for viewing, mobilized troops from the MSDF and ASDF working together in an integrated operation that for the first time featured a scenario -- driving out enemy troops from a remote island that has come under attack.

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Live-fire drill for defending remote isles

GOTEMBA, Japan - Japan's Ground, Maritime and Air Self-Defense Forces conduct Aug. 26, 2012, a major annual artillery live-fire drill in Shizuoka Prefecture. The GSDF's fire power exercise at the East Fuji training area, which was open to the public for viewing, mobilized troops from the MSDF and ASDF working together in an integrated operation that for the first time featured a scenario -- driving out enemy troops from a remote island that has come under attack.

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Live-fire drill for defending remote isles

GOTEMBA, Japan - Japan's Ground, Maritime and Air Self-Defense Forces conduct Aug. 26, 2012, a major annual artillery live-fire drill in Shizuoka Prefecture. The GSDF's fire power exercise at the East Fuji training area, which was open to the public for viewing, mobilized troops from the MSDF and ASDF working together in an integrated operation that for the first time featured a scenario -- driving out enemy troops from a remote island that has come under attack.

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Live-fire drill for defending remote isles

GOTEMBA, Japan - Japan's Ground, Maritime and Air Self-Defense Forces conduct Aug. 26, 2012, a major annual artillery live-fire drill in Shizuoka Prefecture. The GSDF's fire power exercise at the East Fuji training area, which was open to the public for viewing, mobilized troops from the MSDF and ASDF working together in an integrated operation that for the first time featured a scenario -- driving out enemy troops from a remote island that has come under attack.

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SDF, municipalities conduct quake drills

TOKUSHIMA, Japan - Ground Self-Defense Force's members set up tents in Kainan, Tokushima Prefecture, on Sept. 10 as part of drills jointly conducted by the Ground, Maritime and Air Self-Defense Forces and municipalities in Mie, Tokushima and Kochi prefectures in anticipation of a major earthquake in western Japan.