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Kure Naval Base - now a Japan Self-Defense Forces facility and museum; Maizuru Naval Base Maizuru Naval District - now a Japan Self-Defense Forces facility and museum; Hiroshima Naval Base; Oroku Aerodrome/Oroku Naval Air Base - now the Naha Airport/Naha Air Base (JSADF, but the MSDF also has a presence) Kōchi Airfield - now Kōchi Ryōma Airport
While the overall number of overseas military bases has fallen since 1945, the United States, Turkey, the United Kingdom, Russia and France still possess or utilize a substantial number of them. Smaller numbers of overseas military bases are operated by China, Iran, India, Italy, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates.
JGSDF Camp Takigahara (滝ヶ原駐屯地, Takigahara-chūtonchi) is a military base of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, located in Gotemba, Shizuoka prefecture, Japan. It is one of several military facilities located in the foothills of Mount Fuji, and is located across a road from the United States Marine Corps Camp Fuji.
The facility which houses Yokota Air Base was originally constructed by the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) in 1940 as Tama Airfield, and used as a flight test center. During World War II Yokota became the center of Japanese Army Air Forces flight test activities and the base was the site of the first meeting between Japanese and Italian wartime allies.
The base was returned to the control of Japan in 1956. The same year, the JGDSF’s first mountaineering regiment was established at Ōtawara, Tochigi in the Nasu Mountains. This regiment was elevated to form the basis of the JGSDF 6th Division on 15 August 1962, with responsibility for the defense of Fukushima, Miyagi and Yamagata prefectures ...
Pages in category "Japan Air Self-Defense Force bases" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
JGSDF Camp Itazuma (板妻駐屯地, Itazuma-chūtonchi) is a military base of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, located in Gotemba, Shizuoka prefecture, Japan. It is one of several military facilities located in the foothills of Mount Fuji.
Personnel from the base assisted with Operation Tomodachi following and during the March 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami and Fukushima I nuclear accidents. During the crisis, around 300 American family members voluntarily departed the base for locations outside Japan. [22] In 2013 a handgun went missing at the base, and was reported to ...