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Tokyo, Dec 7 (efe-epa).- Japan and the United States armies on Monday let journalists witness large-scale joint military drills and their defense interoperability in the Japanese archipelago amid China’s expanding influence in the region. The defense ministry said the Yama Sakura war games have been going on since Dec 2 in the Kumamoto prefecture and held by the two countries to take countermeasures against imaginary attacks on remote islands in the region. “For a free and open Indo-Pacific region, improving joint operational capabilities is an urgent task,†Lt. Gen. Ryoji Takemoto, head of Japan’s Ground Self-Defense Force, Western Division, told...
