Japan-Missile Deployment/Opposition

Japan's civil groups gather to oppose government's missile deployment

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  • ID : 8472649
  • Dateline : March 30, 2026/File
  • Location : Japan
  • Category : Other
  • Duration : 2'48
  • Audio Language : Japanese/Nats
  • Source : China Central Television (CCTV)
  • Restrictions : No access Chinese mainland
  • Published : 2026-03-31 14:41
  • Last Modified : 2026-03-31 16:36:52
  • Version : 2
  • ID : 8472649
  • Dateline : 2026年3月30日/資料映像
  • Category : Other
  • Duration : 2'48
  • Audio Language : 日本語/自然音声
  • Source : China Central Television (CCTV)
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  • Published : 2026-03-31 15:46
  • Last Modified : 2026-03-31 16:36:52
  • Version : 2

Japan-Missile Deployment/Opposition

Japan's civil groups gather to oppose government's missile deployment

Dateline : March 30, 2026/File

Location : Japan

Duration : 2'48

  • English
  • 日本語


Tokyo, Japan - March 31, 2026 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
1. Various of civil groups having meeting with Japan's Ministry of Defense; representative Koji Sugihara speaking
2. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Koji Sugihara, representative, civil groups:
"It's been eight months. Please tell us whether a residents' briefing has been held, what kind of discussion has been carried out, what's the current situation? Please tell us the progress."
3. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Official, Ministry of Defense (name not given):
"We have been seriously studying whether to hold a briefing for local residents all along."
4. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Koji Sugihara, representative, civil groups:
"So what I'm asking is exactly what discussions have been held over the past eight months. Which department of the Ministry of Defense is in charge of it? What stage are you currently at and how is the process going?"
5. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Official, Ministry of Defense (name not given):
"There is no detailed internal situation available."
6. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Koji Sugihara, representative, civil groups:
"It is not an internal detail issue, is it? We've been waiting for eight months and have mentioned it many times. Aren't you going to force the deployment tomorrow? It's a local consensus that the deployment can't be carried out without a residents' briefing."
7. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Kimoto Sigeo, representative, civil groups (partially overlaid with shots 8-9):
"We have asked in the previous negotiations whether it was the Kyushu Defense Bureau and other local defense agencies that did not hold the briefing, or the Ministry of Defense headquarters in Tokyo that ordered the briefing not to be held. The response we received was that the headquarters had issued instructions, meaning that the Ministry of Defense ordered the briefing not to be held. This is very inappropriate."

++SHOTS OVERLAYING SOUNDBITE++
FILE: Tokyo, Japan - Jan 6, 2025 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
8. Various of Defense Ministry building, guards at gate

FILE: Tokyo, Japan - Oct 21, 2025 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
9. Sign of Defense Ministry of Japan
++SHOTS OVERLAYING SOUNDBITE++

FILE: Tokyo, Japan - Nov 20, 2025 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
10. Various of National Diet building, security guards

Tokyo, Japan - March 31, 2026 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
11. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Attendee of meeting (name not given):
"We must reflect on the aggressive wars we launched. Now the government seems to be trying to cover up these historical facts and is reluctant to face up to the fact of the aggressive wars. Therefore, history must be disseminated truthfully and this situation cannot be allowed to develop continuously."

FILE: Tokyo, Japan - Nov 20, 2025 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
12. Various of National Diet building, traffic, pedestrians

Tokyo, Japan - March 31, 2026 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
13. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Attendee of meeting (name not given) (starting with shot 12/ending with shot 14):
"It was precisely based on the reflection on the war that Japan formulated Paragraph 2, Article 9 of the Constitution, stipulating that it would not maintain the power of war and would not recognize the right to engage in war. However, after 80 years, it has gradually become recognized in form only. Therefore, I believe that we should return to the starting point and resolutely safeguard the Constitution."

FILE: Tokyo, Japan - Nov 20, 2025 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
14. Various of National Diet building, pedestrians, traffic

FILE: Tokyo, Japan - Sept 2024 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
15. Various of Japanese prime minister's office, security guards


Multiple civil groups in Japan attended a negotiation with the Ministry of Defense on Monday in Tokyo to demand the latter stop its military expansion moves, while only received perfunctory response, arousing people's dissatisfaction and criticism.

Japan's Ministry of Defense has delivered a launcher for the upgraded Type 12 surface-to-ship missile to Camp Kengun in Kumamoto City, which is set to be formally deployed on Tuesday.

Though designated as an "anti-ship missile", the upgraded Type 12 is also capable of striking land targets. With a range of about 1,000 km, it can reach the territories of neighboring countries from Japan.

In the negotiation, representatives of civil groups said it is unacceptable that the Japanese government has forcibly advanced the deployment of missile without holding a briefing to the public amid strong opposition from local residents.

"It's been eight months. Please tell us whether a residents' briefing has been held, what kind of discussion has been carried out, what's the current situation? Please tell us the progress," Koji Sugihara, a representative of civil groups, asked at the meeting.

"We have been seriously studying whether to hold a briefing for local residents all along," an official of the Ministry of Defense responded.

"So what I'm asking is exactly what discussions have been held over the past eight months. Which department of the Ministry of Defense is in charge of it? What stage are you currently at and how is the process going?" Koji Sugihara continued his question.

But he still didn't get a satisfactory reply, as the official said no details of the internal situation are available.

In hearing the ambiguous reply, Koji Sugihara reiterated his appeal.

"It is not an internal detail issue, is it? We've been waiting for eight months and have mentioned it many times. Aren't you going to force the deployment tomorrow? It's a local consensus that the deployment can't be carried out without a residents' briefing," he said.

"We have asked in the previous negotiations whether it was the Kyushu Defense Bureau and other local defense agencies that did not hold the briefing, or the Ministry of Defense headquarters in Tokyo that ordered the briefing not to be held. The response we received was that the headquarters had issued instructions, meaning that the Ministry of Defense ordered the briefing not to be held. This is very inappropriate," said Kimoto Sigeo, a representative of civil groups.

In addition, people attending the meeting also expressed their dissatisfaction and opposition to the Japanese government's continuous increase in defense spending, and its efforts to amend the constitution in recent years.

"We must reflect on the aggressive wars we launched. Now the government seems to be trying to cover up these historical facts and is reluctant to face up to the fact of the aggressive wars. Therefore, history must be disseminated truthfully and this situation cannot be allowed to develop continuously," said a attendee of the meeting.

"It was precisely based on the reflection on the war that Japan formulated Paragraph 2, Article 9 of the Constitution, stipulating that it would not maintain the power of war and would not recognize the right to engage in war. However, after 80 years, it has gradually become recognized in form only. Therefore, I believe that we should return to the starting point and resolutely safeguard the Constitution," said another attendee.

ID : 8472649

Published : 2026-03-31 14:41

Last Modified : 2026-03-31 16:36:52

Source : China Central Television (CCTV)

Restrictions : No access Chinese mainland

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