United States Forces Japan
Under the name United States Forces Japan ( USFJ , Japanese 在 日 米 軍 , Zai-Nichi Beigun , officially: 日本国 に お け る 合衆国 軍隊 , Nihon-koku ni okeru Gasshūkoku Guntai , German " Armed Forces of the United States in Japan") the United States established a major military force in Japan to strengthen the Japanese self-defense forces . The USFJ are subordinate to the US Pacific Command ( PACOM ).
USFJ was set up on July 1, 1957 at Fuchu Air Station (with headquarters there), where all branches of the armed forces were already represented and had a staff of 152,000. The headquarters (HQ USFJ) has been located at Yokota Air Base in Tokyo Prefecture on Honshū since 1974 . The legal basis of the USFJ is the US-Japanese treaty of 1960.
history
In 1952, the San Francisco Peace Treaty ended the US-led occupation in Japan after World War II. At the same time, the first security treaty between the USA and Japan came into force, the new edition of which from 1960 to this day forms the legal basis for the stationing of US soldiers on the archipelago. Since the 1990s in particular, the US presence has been severely criticized by large sections of the Japanese population. The soldiers are held responsible for attacks and acts of violence against the population, as well as for accidents and environmental pollution. In 1996 the US and Japan agreed that one fifth of the area on Okinawa Hontō should be returned to Japan under the control of the US military. In particular, the Marine Corps Air Station Futenma airport is to be vacated by 2014 and replaced by an airport in the sparsely populated north of the island. Some ancillary facilities at Kadena Air Base , the largest US facility in Japan, are to be closed. Overall, the networking of the Japanese and US armed forces is to be strengthened. A new joint air defense center that Japan plans to build at Yokota Air Base will serve this purpose . Also by 2014, 8,000 Marines are to be relocated to Guam .
After North Korean tests with long-range missiles, the USA and Japan agreed in 2006 to set up additional Patriot PAC-3 missile defense systems , which around 600 additional US soldiers are to be deployed to Japan.
assignment
The USFJ represent 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 on land and a twelve-mile zone by sea. The waters beyond are defended by the United States. According to Article VI, they may enter Japanese soil to defend Japan and use any Japanese military facility to fulfill their tasks.
Personnel body
The United States Forces Japan has around 38,000 soldiers and employs 5,000 American and 25,000 Japanese civilian employees .
Subordinate units and bases
Army
The ground forces ( United States Army ) are part of the USFJ as United States Army Japan & I Corps (Forward) (USARJ). Its headquarters are in Camp Zama, southwest of Tokyo ( Kanagawa Prefecture ). Current commander is Major General James C. Boozer senior . As a major subordinate command , USARJ is part of the United States Army Pacific .
The United States Forces Japan Association consists of the following units of the Army:
- US Army Garrison, Japan
- 9th Theater Support Command, Camp Zama, Japan
- 10th Area Support Group, Okinawa Prefecture , Japan
- US Army Corps of Engineers , Japan District
- US 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
- Camp Courtney Marine Corps Base, Uruma, Japan
- Camp Foster Marine Corps Base, Ginowan, Japan
- MCAS Futenma Marine Corps, Ginowan, Japan
- Camp Fuji Marine Corps, Shizuoka, Japan
- Camp Lester Marine Corps Base, Chatan Town, Japan
- Camp Hansen Marine Corps, Okinawa, Japan
- Camp Kinser Marine Corps, Okinawa, Japan
- Camp SD Butler Marine Corps Base, Okinawa, Japan
- Camp Schwab Marine Corps Base, Okinawa, Japan
- MCAS Iwakuni Marine Corps Base in Nishiki, Japan
- Camp Gonsalves Marine Corps, Okinawa, Japan
- Camp Mctureous Marine Corps, Kawasaki Village, Japan
- Yontan Airfield Marine Corps Base, Okinawa, Japan
- 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
guide
The leadership of the large territorial association consists of:
- Commander, USFJ - COMUSJAPAN - (currently Lt.Gen. Jerry P. Martinez , in personal union Commander, Fifth Air Force )
- Deputy Commander, USFJ (currently Major General Charles G. Chiarotti, USMC)
- Command Chief Master Sergeant, USFJ (currently Chief Master Sgt. Richard L. Winegardner Jr., and Command Chief Master Sergeant, Fifth Air Force )
Web links
- Official website of the United States Forces Japan (English)
- The United States Forces Japan on GlobalSecurity.org (English)
See also
- United States Forces Korea
- Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between Japan and the United States of America
- Diplomatic relations between Japan and the United States
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.usfj.mil ( Memento of the original from October 25, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. About. Accessed July 16, 2013.
- ↑ www.usfj.mil ( Memento of the original from October 25, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. About. Accessed July 16, 2013.
- ↑ www.usfj.mil ( Memento of the original from October 25, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . About. Accessed July 16, 2013.
- ↑ www.usarj.army.mil - Commanding General ( Memento of the original from June 6, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Accessed July 16, 2013.
- ↑ www.usfj.mil - Leadership Biographies ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Engl.), Accessed July 6, 2017.
