On the 9th, members of the town council of Yonaguni Island in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan's westernmost island closest to Taiwan, met with Minister of Defense Hamada at the Ministry of Defense, saying, "If an emergency occurs in Taiwan, the lives and safety of the townspeople will be threatened." I demanded the setting up of evacuation shelters as soon as possible.
Yonaguni Island in Okinawa Prefecture is about 110 kilometers from Taiwan, and when the Chinese military conducted military exercises around Taiwan in August last year, a total of six ballistic missiles landed in the surrounding waters.
In December last year, the Yonaguni Town Assembly passed an opinion requesting the government to install an evacuation shelter by majority vote, and on the morning of the 9th, six members met with Defense Minister Hamada at the Ministry of Defense and handed over the opinion.
The opinion statement states, ``In the event of an emergency in Taiwan, there is a strong concern that the lives and safety of the townspeople will be threatened, partly because Yonaguni is the closest town to Taiwan.'' I am looking for the installation of
The meeting was closed to the public except at the beginning, but according to lawmakers, Minister Hamada indicated that he would consider setting up an evacuation shelter while coordinating with the Ministry of Defense and the Cabinet Secretariat.
Yonaguni Municipal Council member Shigenori Takunishi, who handed over the opinion, said, "The townspeople are worried about the Taiwan emergency from the perspective of national protection. We need to set up a shelter as a temporary evacuation site." rice field.