City in Yamaguchi Prefecture OKs deployment of U.S. Navy version of Osprey

What do the people of Iwakuni want? Were they even consulted?

If you want to know, please go and ask them. And let us know what you find.

What do the people of Iwakuni want? Were they even consulted?

Like signing the death warrant of local people for the inevitable accident in a populated area.

The trend for many lovely places like Yamaguchi is not positive so USA military garrison is an understandable choice, I guess.

How low can you go, once proud Japan?

The trend for many lovely places like Yamaguchi is not positive so USA military garrison is an understandable choice, I guess.

Huh? Odds are pretty high, and I feel really safe saying this here, Iwakuni has been a US base longer than you have been alive.

Your comment certainly sounds like it comes from ignorance rather than reality.

Flying coffin

Huh? Yamaguchi "hosting" the base in Iwakuni for decades (likely since the beginning of the occupation) and the Mayor adding more USA military "assets" to protect the good people of Yamaguchi from who knows what clearly touches your USA military heart.

Your comment certainly sounds like it comes from arrogance of an occupation power rather than reality.

Iwakuni is right on the border, and practically speaking more associated with Hiroshima than Yamaguchi.

The more Chinese and South Korean patriots scream, the more inconvenient the deployment of Ospreys seems to be for them.

Japan and the US are right to deploy them.

Let's do what China, Russia, North Korea and South Korea oppose.

Don't worry, they're not saying anything important. There's no scientific basis for it either.

a disapproval by the people to not support the deployment of the U.S. Navy's variant of the Osprey in Japan is a win for China, Russia and NK and a potential loss for Japan.

Could have just said Iwakuni at the top of the article. It's not like they are strangers to U.S. military presence.

How much servility approving of being invaded..

The samurai would roll in their beds when they saw this...

Huh? Yamaguchi "hosting" the base in Iwakuni for decades (likely since the beginning of the occupation) and the Mayor adding more USA military "assets" to protect the good people of Yamaguchi from who knows what clearly touches your USA military heart.

Once again comments born from ignorance rather than knowledge. The "mayor" is not adding any assets to the base, in fact he literally has zero say in the matter at all. His agreeing to hosting them is more of a formality than anything else.

If you want proof of that, look at MCAS Futenma, the governors have been against the deployment of the Osprey's since the beginning, but they still are there.

You know absolutely nothing about "my military heart" one way or the other, so please refrain from making comments like this, it just makes what you comment on have no meaning what so ever.

Bullseye

Municipalities get money from the central government in proportion to the size of bases they host. If the Iwakuni mayor has that in mind when he says Iwakuni will accept

the deployment of accident-prone Ospreys in the city, he will be a real tritor not only to the city but also to the nation.

The CMV-22B flown by the US Navy has a better safety record than the C-2A Greyhound it replaces. It's mission is much more benign than the mission of the Marines or USAF Ospreys.

The US Navy uses the Osprey for the "Carrier On-board Delivery" or COD mission. No tactical flying, they are strictly hauling freight between established air fields ashore and the carrier. The Navy is not subjecting the Osprey to the sorts of operating conditions and tactical flying the Marines and Air Force subject theirs too.