U.S. Army's Pacific Commander Wants To Keep American Weapons At Frontline Japanese Base

U.S. Army Pacific (USARPAC) Commanding General Charles A. Flynn reacts with General Yoshida Yoshihide, Ground Self-Defense Force Chief of Staff at a Ground Self-Defense Force base on Amami Oshima island, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan September 8, 2022. REUTERS/Tim Kelly  

Reuters: U.S. Army's Pacific Commander Wants to Keep Rocket Launchers at Frontline Japanese Base 

TOKYO (Reuters) - The U.S. Army's Pacific commander, General Charles Flynn, said he is in no rush to withdraw rocket launchers and other equipment from a Japanese army base at the edge of the East China Sea even after the joint training they were used in ended. 

"Some of the equipment we are just going to leave here" until the next joint drills, he told Reuters on a visit on Thursday to the Japanese Ground Self Defense Force base on Amami Oshima, part of an island chain stretching toward Taiwan.

"It's an opportunity for us to keep capabilities forward," he added.

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Update: US Army Pacific chief inspects defense activities on Amami, southwestern Japan (NHK).  

WNU Editor: The US has a willing partner in Japan .... Japan Is Militarizing Its Remote Islands (September 8, 2022). More here .... Japan to build munitions depots close to Taiwan (Taipei Times).