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With the Pacific Ocean to the east and the East China Sea to the west, Ishigaki Island, with an area of 222.6 square kilometers, is the third largest island in Okinawa prefecture after Okinawa and Nishimiao. Tetsuhiro Kaneshiro, a local resident who has been planting mango trees on the island for decades, began to worry about whether he could continue to live safely when the workers and machines to build the missile base arrived.

In fact, Japan has long been planning to deploy a missile base on Ishigaki Island, but the plan was officially announced in August 2021. The new unit includes an applied unit equipped with surface-to-ship and surface-to-air missiles, as well as a guard unit that can respond quickly to armed attacks and large-scale natural disasters, Japan's Yomiuri Newspaper reported at the time. Later, The Japanese mainstream media did not focus too much on this, only with "is advancing" and other words vague. By the end of October 2021, a Japanese journalist visiting the site described what he saw as "staggering."