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アメリカ、カリフォルニア州サンディエゴの地元紙（The San Diego Union Tribune）1月9日付は、陸上自衛隊が米海兵隊と共同でおこなっている「上陸訓練は中国との対抗意識が強まっている中で力の誇示となりかねない」と報じた。「鉄のこぶし」と名づけられたこの訓練は、「敵軍に対して海岸上陸を夜間に敢行する」もので、ケント・ロビンズ、海兵隊スポークスマンは「海兵隊の訓練をスケール・ダウンしたもの」と語り、米軍の作戦としてはより厳しいものであるとした。
また防衛専門家などの間では、「鉄のこぶし」訓練が「日本が小島を奪われたら取り返すことができることを中国に警告するためのもの」とされているが、この指摘に対しては「訓練は小規模で、他国に対してというよりテロリスト対してのもの」と述べ、日本と中国との対抗については直接言明しなかった。
ニュースの原文は次のとおり。
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20060109/news_1m9japan.html から転載。
Japanese soldiers to train in region
'Iron Fist' to focus on beach landings
By Rick Rogers
STAFF WRITER
January 9, 2006
About 200 Japanese troops are in San Diego County to practice beach landings in what could be a show of force in the country's growing rivalry with China.
The soldiers, from the Japanese Self-Defense Force, will undergo "Iron Fist" training starting today. The exercise calls for the troops to conduct a night beach landing against a hostile force.
Capt. Kent Robbins, a Marine spokesman, said the amphibious training will be taught primarily at Naval Amphibious Base Coronado, with the actual beach landing at Camp Pendleton. "Iron Fist" is a scaled-down version of what Marines learn, he said.
Japanese officials approached the Marines, who have a long history of beach landings, for help last summer, Robbins said. Amphibious landings are among the U.S. military's more demanding maneuvers.
The training could yield technical as well as symbolic benefits for Japan.
In Asia, defense experts and government analysts have suggested in media reports that "Iron Fist" is meant to warn China that Japan can retake a small island should one be captured.
Tensions between Tokyo and Beijing are rising as China's economic and military clout in Asia has soared. The two countries are at odds over numerous issues, from ownership of certain underwater gas reserves and other territory-rights feuding to interpretations of Asian wartime history and Japan's military alliance with the United States.
The Japanese news agency Kyodo said members of the Western Army unit of Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force left Tuesday for Camp Pendleton, where it would undergo special counterterror training and exercises.
This unit will be joined by more Japanese soldiers from Sasebo in Nagasaki Prefecture. The drills are slated to last about three weeks.
Robbins described the training as small-scale, the type more likely to be used against terrorists than against another country. He also declined to directly address the rivalry between Japan and China.
"Anytime we can conduct training with the Japanese forces, we are honored to do so," Robbins said. "We hope to increase the training opportunities in the future. We are excited to have them."
Camp Pendleton covers 125,000 acres, with 17 miles of coastline from Oceanside to the Orange County border. In the 1940s, tens of thousands of Marines learned to fight there before shipping out to battle Japanese troops during World War II.
Other U.S. allies – particularly Australia, Canada and Great Britain – have occasionally come to Camp Pendleton for training exercises.
The United States has maintained a military presence in Japan since the end of World War II in 1945. Today, about 50,000 U.S. troops are stationed there under a joint security pact.
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