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JSDF-U.S. Marines joint drill

Japan Ground Self-Defense Force and U.S. Marine Corps personnel get out of an armored vehicle during the "Resolute Dragon" joint drill on Oct. 29, 2023, at Hijudai artillery range in Oita Prefecture, southwestern Japan.

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Hand grenade explosion at JSDF training site

Photo shows the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force's Kitafuji training ground in Yamanashi Prefecture, west of Tokyo, on May 30, 2024, after a hand grenade exploded there earlier in the day, leaving a GSDF member unconscious.

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JSDF plane heads for W. Africa with 20,000 sets of Ebola gear

NAGOYA, Japan - A Japan Air Self-Defense Force transport plane carrying 20,000 sets of anti-Ebola protective gear leaves from the ASDF's Komaki Air Base in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, for West Africa on Dec. 6, 2014.

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JSDF plane heads for W. Africa with 20,000 sets of Ebola gear

NAGOYA, Japan - Containers with 20,000 sets of anti-Ebola protective gear are loaded onto a Japan Air Self-Defense Force transport plane before its departure from the ASDF's Komaki Air Base in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, for West Africa on Dec. 6, 2014.

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JSDF plane heads for W. Africa with 20,000 sets of Ebola gear

NAGOYA, Japan - Containers with 20,000 sets of anti-Ebola protective gear are loaded onto a Japan Air Self-Defense Force transport plane before its departure from the ASDF's Komaki Air Base in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, for West Africa on Dec. 6, 2014.

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Japan's easternmost territory seen from JSDF aircraft

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's easternmost Minamitori Island, designated administratively as part of Ogasawara village, Tokyo, is seen from a Japan Self-Defense Force airplane on June 4, 204.

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JSDF'S cyber defense unit launched

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera (L) hands the flag of the cyber defense unit of the Japan Self-Defense Forces to unit chief Col. Masatoshi Sato during a ceremony at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on March 26, 2014.

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JSDF'S cyber defense unit launched

TOKYO, Japan - A ceremony marks the official inauguration of the Japan Self-Defense Forces' cyber defense unit on March 26, 2014, at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo.

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JSDF vocalist serves public by singing

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in Tokyo on Aug. 28, 2013, shows Yukari Miyake, the only vocalist in the 230,000-strong Japan Self-Defense Forces, who has seen her debut CD rise to the top of the classical music charts.

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Japanese troops remove heaps of broken furniture in quake-hit area

About 90 Japan Self-Defense Force personnel clear away piles of rubble, broken furniture and home appliances in earthquake-hit areas in the southwestern Japan city of Kumamoto on April 28, 2016. The garbage filled seven JSDF vehicles and was carried to a waste disposal site. The squad will continue the work in other disaster-hit cities the following day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese troops remove heaps of broken furniture in quake-hit area

About 90 Japan Self-Defense Force personnel clear away piles of rubble, broken furniture and home appliances in earthquake-hit areas in the southwestern Japan city of Kumamoto on April 28, 2016. The garbage filled seven JSDF vehicles and was carried to a waste disposal site. The squad will continue the work in other disaster-hit cities the following day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese troops remove heaps of broken furniture in quake-hit area

About 90 Japan Self-Defense Force personnel clear away piles of rubble, broken furniture and home appliances in earthquake-hit areas in the southwestern Japan city of Kumamoto on April 28, 2016. The garbage filled seven JSDF vehicles and was carried to a waste disposal site. The squad will continue the work in other disaster-hit cities the following day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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JSDF school accepts 2 female 'Super High School Students'

Tsubasa Komura (L) and Mariko Sera salute during an entrance ceremony in Tokyo on April 15, 2015, at the Japanese Self-Defense Forces Physical Training School. They were enrolled under a "Super High School Students" program to generate athletes for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. Komura is a boxer while Sera is a modern pentathlon athlete. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-soldier slams gov't-proposed security bills

Norikazu Doro, a former member of the Ground Self-Defense Force's Surface-to-Ship Missile Regiment, speaks at a meeting in Tokyo on July 24, 2015. He lashed out at the government's package of national security bills that would expand the Japan Self-Defense Forces' role, thus putting JSDF members involved in fighting into harm's way. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Wartime sex victims, leftists protest JSDF presence in Philippines

Teddy Casino (L), a former representative in Congress and currently spokesman of the leftist militant group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (New Patriotic Alliance), speaks at a rally on June 23, 2015, in front of the Japanese Embassy in Manila to denounce growing military ties between the Philippines and Japan as demonstrated by their ongoing naval drills in the South China Sea. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Wartime sex victims, leftists protest JSDF presence in Philippines

Hilaria Bustamante, 89, a victim of Japanese military wartime sex abuses in the Philippines, joins a protest action on June 23, 2015, in front of the Japanese Embassy in Manila to denounce growing military ties between the Philippines and Japan as demonstrated by their ongoing naval drills in the South China Sea. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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JSDF plane heads for W. Africa with 20,000 sets of Ebola gear

NAGOYA, Japan - Containers with 20,000 sets of anti-Ebola protective gear are loaded onto a Japan Air Self-Defense Force transport plane before its departure from the ASDF's Komaki Air Base in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, for West Africa on Dec. 6, 2014. (Kyodo)

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Osprey aircraft flying over western Japan

Osprey aircraft fly over a Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force training area in Kagawa Prefecture, western Japan, on Dec. 9, 2019, during a joint exercise of the JSDF and U.S. Marines. It was the first training exercise to use Osprey aircraft in the Shikoku region. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo