JGDSF: Fuji comprehensive thermal power exercise (SOUKAEN): Conducted by no audience
Japan Ground Self-Defense Force:
On May 23, the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force’s largest live-fire exercise in Japan, “Fuji Comprehensive Thermal Power Exercise” (SOUKAEN), was held at Higashifuji Exercise Area in Shizuoka Prefecture.
We are not inviting spectators to prevent the spread of new coronavirus infection.
The Maritime Self-Defense Force and JASDF, which dispatches troops every year, abandoned participation.
Comprehensive firepower exercise (SOUKAEN):
Assumed to prevent enemy invasion of remote islands.
Tanks and armored vehicles: 30,
Artillery: 40
Live shot: 19 tons (about 360 million yen) was used.
Participation was limited to units in Shizuoka and Kanagawa prefectures.
The number of members has decreased from about 2600 last year to about 1800.
Shizuoka Kyodo News