HACHINOHE, Japan—It used to be the roughly exercise the U.S. or Japan would on the final take care of by itself. On this December morning, the two international locations’ troopers were in a camouflaged tent together, practicing the utilization of the planes of 1 and the missile launchers of yet every other to attack an imaginary ship of an unnamed nation that would honest need been China.
In a wooded self-discipline along the hover of northern Japan, when it comes to two dozen U.S. Marines and Jap troopers hunched over maps and laptops. A message flashed on a salvage Marines webpage: “Stdby for engagement.”
