Liberal Akita Rengo “Aegis Ashore” re-investigation on a zero basis, September 5, 18:54

Over the deployment plan of the new interceptor missile system "Aegis Ashore", a member of parliament belonging to the Liberal Democratic Party Akita Rengo told the Ministry of Defense on a zero basis without assuming a specific candidate site. Asked to do.

With regard to the deployment plan for the new interceptor missile system “Aegis Ashore”, the Ministry of Defense has re-established altitudes, including Aomori Prefecture and Yamagata Prefecture's national land, near candidate sites in Akita City where survey data errors were found. The survey will be outsourced.

On this day, a member of the Diet belonging to the Liberal Democratic Party of Akita Prefecture will hold a meeting in the National Assembly on the 5th to fully explain the importance of deployment to the Ministry of Defense so that it will not interfere with missile defense, We asked for a zero-based survey without assuming a specific candidate site.

In response to this, a person in charge of the Ministry of Defense said, “We will conduct a re-investigation with fairness and equality and explain it carefully.”

After the meeting, Deputy Secretary-General Kaneda of the Liberal Democratic Party, who served as the chairman of the Akita Prefectural Federation, told reporters, “It ’s very unfortunate that there was a sloppy investigation and response. I will discuss it again.