When the Japanese government tried to develop an uninhabited island in Kagoshima Prefecture and use it as a training ground for U.S. military fighter jets, the region expressed opposition as a group.
A civic group in Kagoshima collected 300,000 signatures and delivered it to the Ministry of Defense, saying it opposed attempts to build a self-defense base for use as an FCLP airfield, as well as on land takeoff and landing training for US carriers on the uninhabited island of Mageshima.
FCLP is to maintain the skills of pilots taking off and landing on an aircraft carrier, and it is a method that assumes the runway on land as the deck of the aircraft carrier.
The U.S. forces in Japan originally conducted this exercise in Kanagawa Prefecture, the metropolitan area, but residents repelled it due to noise damage, and since 1991, they have been using the Io Island training ground in the Ogasawara Islands, about 1,000 kilometers away from Tokyo.
However, the Io Island training ground was 1,400 kilometers away from the ship's base, so the US demanded that a training ground be built nearby, and the Japanese government selected Mageshima as a candidate site in 2011.
(Photo = Yonhap News)