Japan reveals the first floor to evacuate 100,000 civilians from the islands near Taiwan in case of conflict | Japan
Japan For the first time he published Plans to evacuate over 100,000 civilians from some of his remote islands near Taiwan in case of conflict in the region, among the growing tensions between Beijing and Taipei.
Under contingency, ships and planes would be mobilized to bring about 110,000 residents and 10,000 tourists off five islands in the Sakishima chain in the extreme south-west of Japan.
The displaced people would have been brought to eight prefectures in the South-West and western Japan within six days, according to the Kyodo news agency. The displaced people would have been transported by private ferries or by plane to Kyushu, one of the four main islands of Japan, before being sent to housing in other destinations.
Tokyo said he planned to conduct evacuation exercises on the Sakishima islands, which are part of the Okinawa prefecture, from April next year.
The prospect of a Chinese invasion of TaiwanAn autonomous island that Beijing supports is Chinese territory And he believes that he should be “reunified”, he forced Japan to intensify the measures to protect the remote islands that could be involved in any conflict in the Strait.
China ha Intensified military pressure On Taiwan in recent years and has not excluded the use of the strength to bring the independent island under its control.
The government of Japan also plans to do so Distribute guided missile units on the surface in Yonagunilocated 100 km from Taiwan. The island, a guest at a Japanese self -defense base, is building temporary underground shelters provided with enough food and water for two weeks, have reported the Japanese media.
Gen Nakatani, Minister of Defense, said in January that he had heard a “strong sense of crisis” among the residents who live in the remote border islands in Japan. “I want to take all the possible measures for the defense of our country,” he said, according to the newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun.
Taiwan has not been appointed specifically in the plans, but the concern that the democracy of the island could become a point of military flammability has increased from the invasion of Russia of 2022 Ukraine and the return of Donald TrumpThe foreign policy “America First”, with some local officials who question Washington’s commitment to protect Taiwan and the US allies in the region.
The evacuation plans have been widely reported in Taiwanwhere most of the stores connected it to cross threats and changing US relationships. “It seems more and more a war,” commented a reader in a local news relationship.
“The Japanese also know that Trump will not protect Taiwan,” said another. “Even if they provide weapons in Taiwan, they may not win. To avoid burning, they have already thought about a way to retire. But has our government thought of a way to protect people?”
At the beginning of this month, the Japanese media reported that the government was planning Distribute long -range missiles On Kyushu among the concerns of the fact that the position of the Trump administration on the post -war security pact of the countries, which commits Washington to defend Japan if it is attacked.
Trump complained that the security treaty in Japan-USA was not a reception, saying at the beginning of March: “We have an excellent relationship with Japan, but we have an interesting agreement with Japan that we must protect them, but they don’t have to protect us.
“This is the way the agreement reads … And, by the way, they make a fortune with us economically. In reality I ask, who does these business?”
Yoshimasa Hayashi, the head of the Japan cabinet, said that the evacuation plans have been developed “on hiring (Japan will meet) a situation in which armed attacks are foreseen,” said Kyodo.
Okinawa, home to almost 50,000 US troops, could play a key military role in the event of an emergency of Taiwan. Japan is also involved in a dispute with China with respect to SenkakusA chain of uninhabited islands in the Eastern Chinese Sea that are administered by Tokyo but claimed by China, where they are known as Diaoyu.
