Japan planning to build missile training site on Pacific island

Kishi, Japan doesn't need missile bases.

Your people are the ones who really need help.

Can't wait for the usual "provocative action" claim from the CCP.

Isn't Minamitori the same island about which we were told last month, "200 mil tons of rare metal rocks found in seabed off Japan island"?

Funny that, eh?

Good idea. Need to get as much practice in as possible in case China starts a war, and Japan has to hit back with its counterstrike capability.

Counterstrike hugely increases the cost of war for the lawless CCP, creating a very effective deterrent.

TokyoLivingToday 08:32 am JST

Kishi, Japan doesn't need missile bases.

It's not a base, it's a training site. And anyone who is not a pro-CCP minion can see that Japan does need missile capabilities.

Your people are the ones who really need help.

As ever, the pro-CCP minions pull out the false dilemma of "defense or social welfare." It's not a binary choice, and the Japanese government can -- and does -- do both.

Modern Chinese destroyers and crusiers has powerful phased array radars and gatling cannons, these land based gimmicks won't deter Chinese armada advance into the Pacific !

Google it—it's seriously in the middle of nowhere, possibly never inhabited, and shaped like a jet plane lolly.

nice taxpayers money wasting.

while have best army on the ground here/US occupying forces/

how abt to use these money for old people care and support of young families with kids instead???

nice taxpayers money wasting.

Right now the JGSDF has to haul all their equipment to Point Mugu every year so they can fire their Type 12s into the Pacific Missile Test Range off the California coast. It will save the Japanese taxpayer a great deal of money to be able to conduct this training on a nearby Japanese island.

Modern Chinese destroyers and crusiers has powerful phased array radars and gatling cannons, these land based gimmicks won't deter Chinese armada advance into the Pacific !

So you are saying then that analogous Chinese land based missiles won't stop modern Japanese warships with their powerful phased array radars and "gatling cannons"? Is that it? As Bugs would say "what a maroon".

Modern Chinese destroyers and crusiers has powerful phased array radars and gatling cannons, these land based gimmicks won't deter Chinese armada advance into the Pacific !

But anti-ship missiles will.

Not a bad idea. They should also have mobile launchers and mountain shelters. The Communists have long followed the mass missile strategy and its not a bad one.

Can't wait for the usual "provocative action" claim from the CCP.

Why? Because if you were China, this is exactly how you would see it. Also how Japan wants China to see it.

Mr KiplingToday 03:29 pm JST

Can't wait for the usual "provocative action" claim from the CCP.

Why? Because if you were China, this is exactly how you would see it. Also how Japan wants China to see it.

So only China is allowed to have missiles?

...rather than spend time and money on making better sustainable relations with China let's build a missile launching facility.

LegrandeToday 04:00 pm JST

...rather than spend time and money on making better sustainable relations with China let's build a missile launching facility.

How sustainable can relations with China be when the scummy party can boycott your goods at slightest word of disapproval?

...rather than spend time and money on making better sustainable relations with China let's build a missile launching facility.

The only "sustainable relationship" that would be fully acceptable to the CCP is Japan as a tributary state to China. You do not seem to realize the CCP is trying to recreate the Middle Kingdom of old where all nations surrounding China have a Chinese viceroy who approves their government leaders and were all states only trade with those nations China approves of. If you know how the CCP controls its own people then you can see how they want to control the nations around them. Japan does not owe the Chinese that and has every right to defend itself from Chinese aggression and control.

Welcome to the cartoon version of IR

The only "sustainable relationship" that would be fully acceptable to the CCP is Japan as a tributary state to China

Welcome to the cartoon version of IR

What's happening at Second Thomas Shoals ain't Looney-Tunes. It's no cartoon. China steals whenever and whatever it can. That is real life.