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A Ground Self-Defense Force instructor was killed by a fragment from an exploding grenade during a drill in Yamanashi Prefecture on May 30, GSDF officials said.
Ministry bureaucrats are famed for burning the midnight oil, so all the more reason they crave a decent lunch in preparation for the long hard slog ahead.
Reconstruction and land development in coastal areas of the Tohoku region are nearly complete, 13 years after the destruction caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, but populations have not recovered.
For the first time, the central government employed a legal mechanism to act in place of a prefectural government and push ahead land reclamation work in Okinawa Prefecture for the contentious relocation of a U.S. military base.
Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki said on Dec. 25 that he will not approve the central government’s design change application for land reclamation work to relocate a U.S. military base within the prefecture.