March 3, 2023
Akahata 'current' column
Japanese Communist Party Secretariat Head Koike Akira at a House of Councilors Budget Committee meeting on March 2 revealed that the Ministry of Defense will improve the resiliency of defense facilities and infrastructure in SDF bases and camps on an unprecedented scale.
The MOD/SDF will renovate 23,000 facilities at about 300 bases in order to deal with threats such as nuclear, biological, chemical weapons, and electromagnetic pulse attacks. The MOD/SDF will build underground command posts and will increase the thickness of walls at facilities. Koike said, "To establish underground basing is for protecting the command function in case the whole of Japan becomes a battlefield."
The renovation work will be completed in ten years, and renovation projects in the first half of the construction period alone will cost four trillion yen, according to the MOD. As construction will be intensified in the latter half of the period, the cost will likely increase.
In the first place, why is it that the improvement of military resilience is necessary? It is because the government assumes that Japan will come under attack in retaliation for a U.S.-led joint preemptive strike on other countries. In fact, the Kishida government is going to acquire the capability to preemptively attack enemy missile bases. What Japan should do is to make diplomatic efforts to establish a peaceful environment in the region, not to prepare for war.
Past related article:
> Gov't assumes that SDF bases in urban areas would come under attack [January 28, 2023]
Japanese Communist Party Secretariat Head Koike Akira at a House of Councilors Budget Committee meeting on March 2 revealed that the Ministry of Defense will improve the resiliency of defense facilities and infrastructure in SDF bases and camps on an unprecedented scale.
The MOD/SDF will renovate 23,000 facilities at about 300 bases in order to deal with threats such as nuclear, biological, chemical weapons, and electromagnetic pulse attacks. The MOD/SDF will build underground command posts and will increase the thickness of walls at facilities. Koike said, "To establish underground basing is for protecting the command function in case the whole of Japan becomes a battlefield."
The renovation work will be completed in ten years, and renovation projects in the first half of the construction period alone will cost four trillion yen, according to the MOD. As construction will be intensified in the latter half of the period, the cost will likely increase.
In the first place, why is it that the improvement of military resilience is necessary? It is because the government assumes that Japan will come under attack in retaliation for a U.S.-led joint preemptive strike on other countries. In fact, the Kishida government is going to acquire the capability to preemptively attack enemy missile bases. What Japan should do is to make diplomatic efforts to establish a peaceful environment in the region, not to prepare for war.
Past related article:
> Gov't assumes that SDF bases in urban areas would come under attack [January 28, 2023]
