South China Morning Press:
The preferred site for the Aegis Ashore missile defence system in northern Japan could be inundated to a depth of 5 metres in the event of an offshore earthquake triggering a tsunami, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed.
The latest revelation to dog the single largest non-aviation defence project in Japanese history has raised new questions over the competence of the country’s bureaucrats, and the military planning that went into the deployment of a system the government has declared is vital to the nation’s defence.
