Spanningen rondom Japan

[Huzaar1]

Ik vind discussies over excuses voor misstanden van generaties geleden, waaronder die door de Nederlandse staat, ingewikkeld. Er moet zeker erkend worden wat er is gebeurd, maar kan de huidige generatie verantwoordelijk worden gehouden voor de daden van onze voorouders? Wat mij betreft focussen we op de toekomst. Japan is een betrouwbare partner.

Overigens heeft Japan wel degelijk excuses aangeboden voor hun verleden, ook aan Nederland. Wel op een terughoudende manier, dat klopt.

https://www.mofa.go.jp/policy/women/fund/project0107-3.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_war_apology_statements_issued_by_Japan

Dit zijn niet de excuses, dit is een briefje. Openbare excuses  voor iedereen om te zien en te horen, anders stelt het geen flikker voor en telt het niet.

[Kaaskop2]

Zou toch echt charmant zijn als de jappen een keer excuses voor hun wangedrag en absurde misdaden in wo2 tegen ons zouden maken. Dan pas kan ik zonder misselijke bijsmaak naar dit soort berichten kijken.

Ik vind discussies over excuses voor misstanden van generaties geleden, waaronder die door de Nederlandse staat, ingewikkeld. Er moet zeker erkend worden wat er is gebeurd, maar kan de huidige generatie verantwoordelijk worden gehouden voor de daden van onze voorouders? Wat mij betreft focussen we op de toekomst. Japan is een betrouwbare partner.

Overigens heeft Japan wel degelijk excuses aangeboden voor hun verleden, ook aan Nederland. Wel op een terughoudende manier, dat klopt.

https://www.mofa.go.jp/policy/women/fund/project0107-3.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_war_apology_statements_issued_by_Japan

[Huzaar1]

Zou toch echt charmant zijn als de jappen een keer excuses voor hun wangedrag en absurde misdaden in wo2 tegen ons zouden maken. Dan pas kan ik zonder misselijke bijsmaak naar dit soort berichten kijken.

[Ace1]

Veiligheid in Indo-Pacific leidt tot Japans bezoek aan Nederland

Generaal Yoshihide Yoshida is vrijdag in Den Haag te gast geweest bij Commandant der Strijdkrachten generaal Onno Eichelsheim en minister van Defensie Ruben Brekelmans. De hoogste militair van Japan en Brekelmans bespraken de dreigingen en geopolitieke ontwikkelingen in de Indo-Pacific.

Eichelsheim bracht in april 2023 al een bezoek aan generaal Yoshida in Japan. Beide generaals concludeerden toen dat de situatie in de Indo-Pacific vraagt om meer aandacht en samenwerking. Dit met name om de internationale rechtsorde in de regio te bevorderen en te beschermen. Een veilige Indo-Pacific is van groot belang.

Veiligheidsontwikkelingen in Europa hangen direct samen met die in de Indo-Pacific. Een recent voorbeeld hiervan is het sturen van Noord-Koreaanse militairen naar het front in Oekraïne door Rusland. Daarnaast is de Indo-Pacific een belangrijke economische groeiregio in de wereld. Hoe bereiden de Nederlandse krijgsmacht en die van Japan zich voor op het moeten beschermen van de internationale rechtsorde?

Eichelsheim bracht in april 2023 al een bezoek aan generaal Yoshida in Japan. Beide generaals concludeerden toen dat de situatie in de Indo-Pacific vraagt om meer aandacht en samenwerking. Dit met name om de internationale rechtsorde in de regio te bevorderen en te beschermen. Een veilige Indo-Pacific is van groot belang.

Veiligheidsontwikkelingen in Europa hangen direct samen met die in de Indo-Pacific. Een recent voorbeeld hiervan is het sturen van Noord-Koreaanse militairen naar het front in Oekraïne door Rusland. Daarnaast is de Indo-Pacific een belangrijke economische groeiregio in de wereld. Hoe bereiden de Nederlandse krijgsmacht en die van Japan zich voor op het moeten beschermen van de internationale rechtsorde?

425 jaar betrekkingen
Dit jaar vieren we 425 jaar diplomatieke betrekkingen tussen Japan en Nederland. Het bezoek van Yoshida was daarmee een belangrijk startpunt voor de verdere bestendiging van de militaire samenwerking tussen beide landen.   

Japan telt ongeveer 125 miljoen inwoners en heeft een defensieorganisatie van 250.000 militairen en 56.000 reservisten.

Bij de recente hervorming van de Japanse Zelfverdedigingsmacht zoekt het land meer internationale verbinding en steun. Dit omdat het dreiging onderkent van omliggende landen als China, Rusland en Noord-Korea.

Nederland is militair gezien al regelmatig in de Indo-Pacific. Dit past in de groeiende aandacht van Nederland en de bondgenoten voor een veilige Indo-Pacific. Vorig jaar nog was Zr.Ms. Tromp in de regio. Nederland wil elke 2 jaar een marineschip naar de Info-Pacific sturen om militaire aanwezigheid te tonen. Daarnaast neemt Defensie sinds deze maand deel aan de United Nations Command (UNC) in de Republiek Korea (Zuid-Korea)

https://www.defensie.nl/actueel/nieuws/2025/01/20/japan-zoekt-meer-internationale-steun-vanwege-veiligheid-in-indo-pacific

[Huzaar1]

Volgende oorlog zitten ze weer bij de andere kant

[silvester herc]

https://x.com/DefensieMin/status/1880239053335064715?t=i3uFb3biNtUooip_wKOa2g&s=09
Veiligheid in Europa en Azië raken steeds meer verbonden. Nu Rusland, Noord-Korea en China militair nauwer samenwerken, wordt onze samenwerking met partners als Japan alsmaar belangrijker. Met onze

@CDS_Defensie

goed gesproken met de Japanse Commandant der Strijdkrachten

[Sparkplug]

Japan eyes deploying F-35A stealth jets to Komatsu base by 2025


An F-35A stealth fighter jet at Misawa Air Base in Aomori Prefecture in January 2018 | KYODO

KYODO Jun 2, 2021

Japan is arranging to deploy four F-35A advanced stealth fighter jets by 2025 at the earliest to an Air Self-Defense Force base on the Sea of Japan coast, government sources said Wednesday, in a bid to boost the country's defense capabilities against airspace incursions by China and Russia.

The government plans to eventually deploy around 20 F-35As to Komatsu Air Base in Ishikawa Prefecture, the sources said. Japan has already decided to acquire a total of 105 F-35As, with the aim of making the aircraft one of its mainstay jets.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato said at a news conference that bases where fighter units are stationed are mainly being considered for F-35A deployment, and the Komatsu base is a "potential candidate site."

The government will notify the Ishikawa Prefectural Government and the city of Komatsu as early as Thursday, according to the sources.

The Komatsu base is home to the sole fighter unit along the Sea of Japan, with the sea separating it from countries such as China and Russia. Some 40 F-15 fighter jets are stationed at the base.

Japan has begun deploying F-35As, used by the U.S. Air Force, to replace the F-15.

The F-35A is equipped with high-performance radar that can detect ballistic missiles and is also capable of evading radar detection.

F-35As have already been deployed to Misawa Air Base in Aomori Prefecture to respond to airspace incursions and engage in surveillance activity targeting North Korea.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/06/02/national/stealth-jets-komatsu/

[bergd]

Dreiging Koreaans-Japans conflict zwaar onderschat (zie bnr podcast hieronder)

De spanningen tussen Japan en Zuid-Korea lopen op. Iets om in de gaten te houden. Japan wat afhankelijk is van Trump zit duidelijk in een spagaat.

Zuid Korea wil gebruik maken van de nieuwe zijde route en goedkope arbeidskrachten(dwangarbeiders) uit het noorden. Hiermee de concurrentie positie met Japan aangaat en ondertussen Noord-Korea die middelange afstandsraketten ontwikkeld maakt het er allemaal ingewikkeld op.

https://www.bnr.nl/podcast/de-wereld/10389334/dreiging-koreaans-japans-conflict-zwaar-onderschat

https://m.dw.com/en/japan-south-korea-dispute-shows-no-signs-of-abating/a-50284119

[Parera]

Japan Ground Self-Defense Forces to Purchase Transport Ships



The Sankei Shimbun reports that Japan's Ground Self-Defense Forces (JGSDF) are currently examining a plan that would see the service purchase transport ships independent of the Maritime Self-Defense Forces (JMSDF) for the purpose of transporting men and materiel to the nation's southwestern islands in an emergency.

The plan, reported to be included in the upcoming revision of Japan's National Defense Program Guidelines (NDPG), would also see the vessels prepositioning materiel to support the JGSDF response to emergency and "gray zone" scenarios. Voices within the defense ministry support equipping the JGSDF with landing ship tanks and smaller, more maneuverable ships to aid flexibility.

The defense ministry currently maintains contracts with two private ferries to aid disaster response and island defense efforts. However, JGSDF commanders and MOD officials have evaluated the current arrangement as unsatisfactory, and have expressed a preference to move towards developing a JGSDF-specific solution. Because the JGSDF has little experience with operating LSTs or other transport vessels, the plan calls for utilizing the expertise of retired JMSDF commanders to help set up the unit within the JGSDF. The JGSDF presently operates a number of transport helicopters and aircraft -- the CH-47 Chinook and V-22 Osprey -- but airborne transportation alone is insufficient for transporting the JGSDF's rapidly growing presence in the southwestern islands, including hundreds of soldiers, a radar station, and soon-to-be-installed anti-ship missile units in Okinawa prefecture. The activation of the JGSDF's Amphibious Rapid Deployment brigade has made this need even more pressing.

At present, the JMSDF operates three LSTs of the Osumi class, each vessel displacing 14,000 tons and featuring a well deck for amphibious operations. The JMSDF also fields a number of utility landing craft equipped with bow doors.

Ben Rimland is an independent researcher on Asia-Pacific security issues. His academic research pertains to Japanese defense policy and American security policy in Asia. He can be found on twitter at @JPNsecuritywonk.



[Source: Navy Recognition ]

[Harald]

Russian Navy deployed coastal anti-ship missiles on Kuril Islands

The newspaper of Russia's Pacific Fleet, Boyevaya Vakhta, reported that the Bal-E and Bastion-P coastal anti-ship missile batteries have been deployed in the disputed Kuril Islands.

The islands were seized by the Soviet Union at the end of World War II. Both countries have failed to sign an agreement to end hostilieis due to the dispute over the ownership of the islands.

http://alert5.com/2016/11/23/russian-navy-deployed-coastal-anti-ship-missiles-on-kuril-islands/

[Kaaskop2]

Naha Airport, which the Self-Defense Forces use jointly with operators of civilian aircraft, has the second-largest number of takeoffs and landings for a single-runway airport in Japan, just after Fukuoka Airport.

It is essential to advance, without delay, work on the second runway at the airport, which is scheduled for concurrent use beginning in 2020.

Naha Airport verwerkt jaarlijks viermaal zoveel passagiers als Eindhoven Airport en heeft veertig F-15's, een vijftiental P-3 Orion's en nog een handvol Kawasaki T-4's, E-2C's, UH-60J's en CH-47J's gestationeerd. Kan me voorstellen dat het af en toe druk is met slechts één startbaan. Nog even volhouden totdat de tweede baan opent:

http://www.japanupdate.com/2014/02/second-naha-airport-runway-moves-to-construction/

Hier overigens nog wat beelden van de ceremonie:

[Sparkplug]

Strengthening Defense Posture Around Nansei Islands Critical

The Yomiuri Shimbun | February 3, 2016


The Japan government appears determined to dissuade China from making any attempt to expand its presence in the North China Sea, and has doubled the number of F-15J fighters based at Naha air base. (Wikimedia photo)

As Chinese military forces continue to intensify their activities in the East China Sea, it is important to steadily beef up the defense posture around the Nansei Islands.

The Defense Ministry has newly organized the 9th Air Wing at the Air Self-Defense Force's Naha Airbase, the nation's first new air wing in 51 years. After moving one flight squadron from Tsuiki Airbase in Fukuoka Prefecture to Naha, the ASDF has doubled the number of its mainstay F-15 fighters at Naha Airbase from 20 to 40.

The measures are aimed at dealing with a sharp increase in the number of incidents in which the ASDF has scrambled planes in response to Chinese military aircraft flying close to Japan's territorial airspace in areas surrounding the Nansei Islands.

In fiscal 2014, the number of such incidents in areas around the islands — mostly involving Chinese military aircraft — totaled 468, marking approximately a 10-fold increase from fiscal 2008.

China may be trying to make its air defense identification zone, which Beijing unilaterally declared in the autumn of 2013 over the East China Sea, a fait accompli. The zone includes areas above the Senkaku Islands.

By beefing up its Naha unit, the ASDF has become able to deploy its planes more expeditiously, while reducing the burdens on its pilots.

The fact that Japan is demonstrating its determination to prevent China from changing the status quo with force and to defend its territorial airspace by properly responding to reconnaissance operations by China's military aircraft has significant implications.

Naha Airport, which the Self-Defense Forces use jointly with operators of civilian aircraft, has the second-largest number of takeoffs and landings for a single-runway airport in Japan, just after Fukuoka Airport.

It is essential to advance, without delay, work on the second runway at the airport, which is scheduled for concurrent use beginning in 2020.

New deployments scheduled

The new guidelines for Japan-U.S. defense cooperation stipulate that the SDF will defend remote islands on its own initiative, while the U.S. forces will play supportive roles.

Based on the guidelines, a 150-strong coastal observation unit will be deployed next month on Yonagunijima island.

In fiscal 2018, a patrol and missile unit is scheduled to be deployed on Amami-Oshima island and on Miyakojima island. The ministry is considering the deployment of a similar unit on Ishigakijima island, as well. It is important to proceed with the plan, while winning the understanding of local communities.

There have been a succession of incidents in which Chinese military vessels have sailed close to the Senkaku Islands. And intrusions into Japanese territorial waters near the islands by China Coast Guard vessels continue unabated. In December last year, a China Coast Guard vessel equipped with "gun turrets" was sighted. China is also reportedly building a large vessel in the 10,000-ton class.

These developments are linked to a reorganization of the Chinese military, which is shifting its emphasis from ground forces to maritime and air forces. Japan needs to increase its vigilance in the future. It should also be assumed that situations may arise that the Japan Coast Guard cannot deal with alone.

Should a Chinese military vessel intrude into Japan's territorial waters, the government may issue an order for the Maritime Self-Defense Force to implement maritime patrol operations. It is understandable that the Japanese government has conveyed such a policy to the Chinese side.

It is a matter of concern that there has been a delay in Japan-China negotiations concerning the establishment of a "maritime liaison mechanism" to prevent accidental clashes between the SDF and Chinese military forces. It is hoped that both countries will intelligently exert themselves to reach an agreement at an early stage.

http://www.defense-aerospace.com/articles-view/release/3/170900/japan-strengthens-defense-posture-around-nansei-islands.html

[Kaaskop2]

Japan confirms deployment of anti-missile systems

The Japanese government on Tuesday announced that it has readied itself for a possible test-firing of a ballistic missile by North Korea by deploying both ground and sea-based anti-missile interceptors.

Japan's Defence Minister Gen Nakatani said his ministry was fully poised for any rocket or missile tests by North Korea, stating that Patriot Advanced Capability-3, or PAC-3, surface-to-air missile systems have been deployed at 34 locations, Xinhua news agency reported.

The locations comprise the ministry's facilities in Ichigaya in Tokyo, as well as in Asaka and Narashino, which is close to the capital.

Nakatani said a launch could occur without prior notice and as such Japan had to ready itself for a number of potential scenarios.

He said past launches have come without any warning, and, as such, the potential for rocket or missile-related objects falling into waters around Japan existed.

The minister added that the Maritime Self-Defence Force's Aegis destroyers, equipped with the Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) interceptor systems have also been deployed in the Sea of Japan and surrounding waters.

In 1998, North Korea's Taepodong-1, medium-range ballistic missile and successor to its Nodong class of missiles, was launched and flew over Japan and landed in the Pacific Ocean.

The defence ministry said at the time that the missile landed in the middle of the Sea of Japan, south of the Russian city of Vladivostok and hit the water some 386 km from the Noto Peninsula, the nearest coast of Japan, which lies 690 km northwest of Tokyo.

http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/japan-confirms-deployment-of-anti-missile-systems-116020200733_1.html

[Kaaskop2]

Japanese island defense plan takes shape in bid to turn tables on China

Japan is fortifying its far-flung island chain in the East China Sea under an evolving strategy that aims to turn the tables on China's navy and keep it from ever dominating the Western Pacific Ocean, Japanese military and government sources said.

The United States, believing its Asian allies — and Japan in particular — must help contain growing Chinese military power, has pushed Japan to abandon its decades-old bare-bones home island defense in favor of exerting its military power in Asia.

Tokyo is responding by stringing a line of anti-ship, anti-aircraft missile batteries along 200 islands in the East China Sea stretching 1,400 km from the country's mainland toward Taiwan.

Interviews with a dozen military planners and government policymakers reveal that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's broader goal to beef up the military has evolved to include a strategy to dominate the sea and air surrounding the remote islands.

While the installations are not secret, it is the first time such officials have spelled out that the deployment will help keep China at bay in the Western Pacific and amounts to a Japanese version of the "anti-access, area denial" doctrine, known as A2/AD in military jargon, that China is using to try to push the United States and its allies out of the region.

Chinese ships sailing from their eastern seaboard must pass through this seamless barrier of Japanese missile batteries to reach the Western Pacific, access to which is vital to Beijing both as a supply line to the rest of the world's oceans and for the projection of its naval power.

Bron & vervolg: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/18/national/politics-diplomacy/japanese-island-defense-plan-takes-shape-bid-turn-tables-china/#.Vn70x_nhCUk

[Sparkplug]

Japan boos om Chinese schepen bij omstreden eilandengroep

ANP, nu.nl | 26 december 2015

Japan heeft officieel protest aangetekend bij China nadat drie schepen van de Chinese kustwacht onaangekondigd Japanse wateren waren binnengevaren. Een van de vaartuigen was volgens Tokio bewapend met kanonnen.

Dat meldt het Japanse persbureau Kyodo zaterdag.

De Chinese schepen voeren in de buurt van de Senkaku eilanden in de Oost-Chinese Zee die zowel door Japan als China worden geclaimd.

Het was voor het eerst dat een gewapend Chinees kustwachtschip de Japanse wateren binnenvoer, aldus de Japanse kustwacht.

http://www.nu.nl/buitenland/4188740/japan-boos-chinese-schepen-bij-omstreden-eilandengroep.html