Aegis Ashore “Deployment to Akita, no fact of abandonment” Secretary-General Dec. 11th, 12:44

The Secretary of the Secretary of the Emirates has not decided the policy and direction of the review over the training ground in Akita City, which is shown as one of the candidate locations for the deployment of the new interceptor missile system “Aegis Ashore”. He showed the idea that there was no abandoned fact.

Regarding the deployment of the new interceptor missile system “Aegis Ashore”, the government indicated the Ground Self-Defense Force Shinya Exercise Area in Akita City as one of the candidate sites. Rather, we are conducting a re-investigation at 20 locations, including Hirosaki Exercise Area and state-owned land in Aomori Prefecture.

Under such circumstances, the Secretary of the Secretary of the Secretary said at the press conference in the morning that there was a report that the deployment to the Shinya Exercise Area was reviewed. We are going to review it fairly on a base basis. ”

In addition, “At this stage, however, we are still conducting a re-investigation that is the premise of the examination, there is no fact that we decided on any policy or direction of examination, and the fact that we abandoned the deployment to the Shinya Exercise Area Not. "