Aomori gov. approves hosting of U.S. missile defense radar+
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[March 30, 2006]

Aomori gov. approves hosting of U.S. missile defense radar+

(Japan Economic Newswire Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)AOMORI, Japan, March 30_(Kyodo) _ Aomori Gov. Shingo Mimura said Thursday he has agreed to host a U.S. military missile-defense radar at an Air Self-Defense Force base in Aomori Prefecture, as agreed upon between the Japanese and U.S. governments.



"We cannot help but accept it," Mimura told a press conference. "The radar is for warning and surveillance and does not involve the use of weapons, and we determined it would not mean enhancing the base's functions because most of the staff to be stationed there because of it are civilian technicians."

Japan and the United States have agreed to deploy the mobile X-band radar for an advanced early warning system against ballistic missiles at the ASDF's Shariki base in Tsugaru in the latter half of this year.



Based on the accord, Defense Facilities Administration Agency officials had made a formal request early in March to the Aomori prefectural and Tsugaru municipal governments to host the radar.

The radar, aimed at detecting and intercepting ballistic missiles, will be set up at the ASDF base facing the Sea of Japan. About 10 U.S. military personnel and roughly 50 civilians, including technicians and guards, will be stationed at the facility at any given time, according to agency officials.

Earlier Thursday, Mimura and Tsugaru Mayor Hiroyoshi Fukushima paid a call on Defense Agency Director General Fukushiro Nukaga in Tokyo to make six requests in connection with the radar deployment.

The requests include setting up a new subsidy system, working on measures for regional development and public safety measures.

According to the Defense Agency, the radar, whose trial use will start around this summer at the Shariki base, will use a frequency called X-band to detect ballistic missiles immediately after launch, track them and identify projected landing points.

The radar deployment is part of the missile defense joint project between Japan and the United States, which began after North Korea fired a long-range missile in August 1998, part of which flew over Japan and dropped into the Pacific Ocean.

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