War Begin : China Launches a Missile Strike on Mageshima Island, which has become a US military base

The Japanese government has completed the 16 billion yen (US$146 million) purchase of an uninhabited island between Kyushu and Okinawa prefecture which it plans to develop into a training base for Japanese and the US military aircraft.
Mageshima is part of the Osumi Islands and hosted an important airfield for the Japanese military when defending Okinawa in the closing stages of World War II. Its planned development reflects Tokyo’s revised security doctrine and determination to protect the scattered islands off its most southern prefecture.

“It’s important to secure the site for field carrier landing practice from the viewpoint of security so we will continue to try to build a permanent facility at an early date,” chief cabinet secretary Yoshihide Suga said on Monday.
The government reached an agreement with Tokyo-based developer Taston Airport in January to buy the 8.2 sq km island for 4.5 billion yen. That deal collapsed in May when a new president of the company took over and demanded more money. The government agreed to increase its offer after taking into account the money Taston had invested.

The Japanese government has been seeking a suitable location for a training facility since it agreed eight years ago to provide the US forces based in Japan a new site for landing practices.
the US aircraft are not currently allowed to carry out flight practices at bases on mainland Japan due to noise pollution constraints. Instead, aircraft from the US airbase at Iwakuni in central Japan must fly about 1,400km south to Iwo To, better known as Iwo Jima.

Mageshima is only 400km from Iwakuni, making it an ideal site.
Iwakuni Mayor Yoshihiko Fukuda hailed the central government’s announcement as a “big step forward”.
“Building a permanent training facility is necessary to reduce worries among local people [in Iwakuni],”he said. “We’d like to ask the government to have the facility completed early.”
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