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| Security Tightened at U.S. Bases in Japan |
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MON, OCT 08, 2001
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Tension heightened at U.S. military bases across Japan on Monday following the launch of air strikes by the U.S and Britain on Afghanistan in retaliation for the September 11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, Kyodo News reported.
The bases tightened security while Japanese police stood watch outside, the report said.
In Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture in western Japan, two Japanese police wearing bulletproof vests guarded the gate to an U.S. ammunition bunker while two armed U.S. military personnel were posted inside the gate.
"I've been working here for 30 years, but the tension in Tokyo is higher now than at the time of the Vietnam War. It may be because the enemy this time is invisible," the report quoted a 52-year-old Japanese guard who works at the bunker as saying
Meanwhile, six Japanese police stood watch at the gate to Yokosuka naval base in Kanagawa Prefecture southwest of Tokyo.
Tension was up around U.S. Misawa base in Aomori Prefecture in northern Japan as police stopped people from taking pictures of U.S. military personnel there.
At Kadena air base in Japan's southern most prefecture of Okinawa, the largest U.S. Air Force base in the Far East, several U.S. military officers checked incoming vehicles with binoculars.
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