By YOSHITAKA ITO/ Staff Writer
November 2, 2020 at 19:06 JST
Members of the Self-Defense Forces bring in troops injured in fighting to a makeshift field hospital on Tokunoshima island in Kagoshima Prefecture during a battlefield medical drill on Nov. 1. (Provided by Ground Self-Defense Force)
When troops were wounded in fighting in the country's remote southwestern islands, a Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) helicopter unit was assigned to transport the injured out. [Read More]
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