Japan and US drills simulate response to a seaborne invasion, reflecting anxieties about China
(WorldNews Asia)

Japanese and US military units have for the first time carried out joint manoeuvres using anti-shipping missiles, simulating a response to a seaborne invasion of Japanese territory. The exercises were conducted this week at the Oyanohara training facility in Kyushu, southern Japan, underlining Tokyo’s resolve to protect the integrity of its territory, in particular its outlying islands. Japan and China are involved in a long-running dispute over the sovereignty of the small archipelago… ......