The drill based on the simulated conditions of defending remote islands brought together Air Assault Group No. 1, a parachuting unit of the GSDF, and the amphibious task force newly organized last year as a special unit for the landing operation.

The Japanese government is trying to buy an island of Kagoshima Prefecture and use it as a drill base for the taking off and landing of the U.S. carrier-based deck planes.

Minju Joson Wednesday says in a commentary this betrays again the crafty intention of the Japanese reactionaries to realize the ambition for overseas expansion at any cost by increasing military cooperation with the U.S.

The commentary goes on:

It is the Japanese reactionaries' invariable ambition for aggression to realize at any cost their old dream of the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" by offering the whole land of Japan to the U.S.

The Japanese reactionaries' aim is to put overseas expansion in practice anytime and anywhere by further enhancing the SDF's military operation capability.

The reckless moves of the Japanese reactionaries who are putting spurs to the preparations for reinvasion out of revenge for defeat gravely threaten peace and stability in Northeast Asia and the rest of the world.

The Japanese reactionaries should see the trend of the times in a "level-headed" manner.

The international community is keeping a sharp watch on Japan's moves for overseas expansion.

If Japan behaves recklessly obsessed with the ambition for overseas expansion, it will face only its final destruction.