US Military Training Flights: A Call for Sincere Action on Japan’s Part

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This scenario of the U.S. military acting like it owns the place and causing citizens to suffer is the same scenario seen with the problems at the military base in Okinawa

US Military Training Flights: A Call for Sincere Action on Japan’s Part
The Kochi Shimbun, Japan
Translated By Nathan Takase
24 May 2013
Edited by Kyrstie Lane

Just what is the meaning of this unnatural state of affairs? Since April of this year, U.S. military aircraft have been conducting frequent night training flights in the Reihoku area of Kochi prefecture — something that has not occurred for the past 10 years or so.

In particular, flights — and the accompanying roar — were confirmed for four consecutive nights around 10 p.m. beginning on May 13. Children and the elderly are frightened and sleep is disturbed. The unrest and anger of the citizens has reached its limit.

No longer able to tolerate this situation, the prefectural governor and the mayors of four Reihoku area villages (Okawa-mura, Tosa-cho, Motoyama-cho and Otoyo-cho) visited the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Defense, submitting a written request asking that the U.S. military be urged to immediately cease low-altitude training flights, especially at night.

Japan needs to take this request seriously and respond in earnest. If it is met with the same kind of perfunctory response that has persisted until now, the result can only be a deepened sense of distrust in Japan and the U.S. military.