Japan, U.S. Scout Site for Missile Defense Radar

A site in northeastern Japan is being considered to house a joint Japanese-U.S. missile defense radar system, the Associated Press reported today (see GSN, Oct. 18).

U.S. military officials were expected to arrive at the Aomori Japanese air force base today and spend about two weeks there studying electromagnetic and geological conditions, according to the Japanese Defense Agency (Carl Freire, Associated Press/Yahoo!News, Dec. 6).

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