Countering CCP Military Threat, Japan Establishing Defense in Okinawa

Members of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) take the Japanese national flag down in the early evening at JGSDF Miyako camp on Miyako Island, Okinawa prefecture, Japan, on April 20, 2022. Issei Kato/Reuters

Following the late Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s principle that “A Taiwan emergency is a Japanese emergency,” Japan will set up an Okinawa Defense Corps to counter Beijing’s military threat.

Japan’s Defense Ministry will establish an Okinawa Defense Group in the Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) as a new unit at the heart of the defense of the Nansei Islands, Japan media reported on Dec. 3.