United States Forces Japan

Entertain: Under the name of United States Forces Japan (日本国 における 合衆国 軍隊, Nihon - koku ni okeru Gasshūkoku Guntai, GV " Armed Forces of the United States in Japan" USFJ, Japanese在 日 米 军, Zai - Nichi Beigun, officially ) the United States, a major military organization in Japan to strengthen the Japanese self-Defense Forces. The USFJ are subject to the U.S. Pacific Command ( PACOM ).

USFJ was set up on 1 July 1957, the Fuchu Air Station ( with dortigem headquarters ), where already all branches of the armed forces were represented and a personal body of 152,000 had. The headquarters (HQ USFJ ) is located since 1974 at the Yokota Air Base located in Tokyo on Honshu. The legal basis of the USFJ consists in the US-Japan Treaty of Alliance of 1960.

History

1952 ended the Treaty of San Francisco, the US-led occupation in Japan after the Second World War. At the same time, the first security treaty between the U.S. and Japan entered into force, the new edition provides the legal basis for the deployment of U.S. troops on the island group from 1960 until today. Especially since the 1990s, is the U.S. presence in the sharp criticism of large parts of the Japanese population. The soldiers are blamed for attacks and acts of violence against the population, and accidents and pollution. 1996 agreed the U.S. and Japan that a fifth of Okinawa Honto should be returned under the control of the U.S. military in Japan. Above all, the airport will be Marine Corps Air Station Futenma vacated by 2014 and replaced by an airport in the sparsely populated north of the island. Some auxiliary systems of Kadena Air Base, the largest U.S. facility in Japan, will be closed. Overall, the cross-linking of the Japanese and the U.S. armed forces will be strengthened. To this end, consider a new joint air defense center, which plans to build Japan in the Yokota Air Base. Also by 2014, 8,000 Marines will be relocated to Guam.

After North Korea's experiments with long-range missiles, the U.S. and Japan agreed in 2006 setting up additional missile defense systems of the type Patriot PAC -3 to their operation around 600 more U.S. troops to be transferred to Japan.

Order

The USFJ make the American contribution to the protection of the territorial integrity of Japan.

According to Article V of the " Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between Japan and the United States of America " Japan is obliged to defend its territory by land as well as a twelve -mile zone to water. Beyond this waters are defended by the United States. This may enter to defend Japan under Article VI Japanese ground and take to fulfill its functions, each Japanese military installation to complete.

Human body

The United States Forces Japan include approximately 38,000 soldiers and employ in addition to 5,000 American and 25,000 Japanese civilian employees.

Subordinate units and bases

Army

The ground forces (United States Army ) are a United States Army Japan & I Corps ( Forward) ( USARJ ) part of USFJ. It has its headquarters at Camp Zama southwest of Tokyo ( Kanagawa Prefecture ). Current commander is Major General James C. Boozer senior. USARJ is a major subordinate command in turn part of the United States Army Pacific Command.

The Association of United States Forces Japan consists of the following units of the Army:

  • U.S. Army Garrison, Japan
  • 9th Theater Support Command, Camp Zama, Japan
  • 10th Area Support Group, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan
  • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Japan District
  • U.S. Army Garrison, Japan, Volume

Marine Corps

  • Marine Corps Bases, Japan
  • Marine Corps Base Camp Butler, Japan
  • III Marine Expeditionary Force
  • 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit
  • Combined Arms Training Center Camp Fuji, Japan
  • Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan

Navy

  • Commander, U.S. Naval Forces, Japan
  • Fleet Activities Okinawa, Japan
  • Fleet Activities Sasebo, Japan
  • Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Japan
  • Naval Air Facility Atsugi, Japan
  • Naval Air Facility Misawa, Japan
  • Seventh Fleet, Yokosuka, Japan

Air Force

  • Yokota Air Base, Japan
  • Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, Japan
  • Misawa Air Base, Japan

Leadership

The leadership of the territorial United Association shall be composed of:

  • Commander, USFJ - COMUSJAPAN - (currently Lt.Gen Salvatore A. Angel Ella, in personal union Commander, Fifth Air Force. )
  • Deputy Commander, USFJ (currently Major General Andrew W. O'Donnell Jr. )
  • Command Chief Master Sergeant, USFJ ( currently Chief Master Sgt Douglas L. McIntyre, in personal union Command Chief Master Sergeant, Fifth Air Force)
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