A government advance team has entered Kabul, the capital, to evacuate the Japanese remaining in Afghanistan.
As early as the night of the 25th of Japan time, a SDF transport plane is expected to carry a person seeking evacuation at the airport in Kabul and send it to neighboring Pakistan.
According to Ministry of Defense officials, advance teams such as the Self-Defense Forces dispatched by the government to evacuate the Japanese remaining in Afghanistan and Afghan staff working at the embassy will be in Kabul, the capital, late on the night of the 24th of Japan time. It has entered.
At the airport in Kabul, where people seeking evacuation are carried, adjustments were made for the arrival and departure of transport aircraft.
In addition, the two C130 transport aircraft to be used for transportation will depart from Naha Air Base in Okinawa Prefecture on the night of the 24th and will arrive in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, where the Self-Defense Forces are based, on the night of the 25th of Japan time. is.
President Biden has announced that he will not extend the withdrawal deadline set at the end of this month, while the Japanese government says that it will only transport people seeking evacuation until the U.S. military withdraws from the field. ..
In order to hurry the evacuation, not only the C130 transport plane but also the C2 transport plane that has already arrived in Pakistan is being considered, and the SDF transport plane will be at the airport in Kabul as early as the night of the 25th of Japan time. It is expected that a person requesting evacuation will be carried and sent to Islamabad.
On the other hand, the government aircraft, which was scheduled to be dispatched to the site on the 25th, was preparing for departure at Komaki base in Aichi prefecture, but the unit to operate in the afternoon belongs to it. I returned to the Chitose base in Hokkaido.
The Ministry of Defense says, "We will wait until we are ready to operate."