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US military drill relocation costs covertly covered by Japan s 1990s sympathy budgets
April 23, 2021 (Mainichi Japan)
Papers documenting U.S. military history including an account of the relocation of FCLP drills from the Naval Air Facility Atsugi to Iwo Jima is seen in this file photo taken on Jan. 25, 2021. (Mainichi/Hiroya Miyagi) Between 1993 and 1995, the Japanese government surreptitiously used budgets for U.S. military base hosting contributions to cover expenses for relocating drills in Japan, official United States Forces documents have revealed. U.S military drill relocation costs were not originally designated expenses covered by what s commonly referred to as the sympathy budget, or Japan s contribution to the cost of stationing U.S. troops in the country. The sympathy budget referral was carried out in response to a U.S. military request on the pretext of increasing expenses for maintaining Naval Air Facility Atsugi in Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tok