Pointless gesture. This is just nationalists doing nationalist crowd riling things.

“The deployment can help lower the chance of an armed attack on our country,” Shinjiro Koizumi told reporters on Sunday as he wrapped up his first trip to the base on the southern Japanese island of Yonaguni. “The view that it will heighten regional tensions is not accurate.”

If I were facing this almost insurmountable problem I’d probably launch missiles at it before flying the bombers over. In fact I’d probably launch missiles at it for target practice. What’s Japan going to do, escalate? lol