General Richard B.Myers, former Joint Chief of Staff of USA and JAAGA honorary member, came to Japan in middle of December to be guest speaker at Nikkei-CSIS symposium in Tokyo.　On 7th December, JAAGA members exchanged information and opinion with Gen.Myers about our interesting issues, especially improvement and strengthening US-Japan alliance.　Gen.Myers strongly supported JASDF about JASDF's equipment programs and JASDF's participating to Cope Guam Exercise etc. when he was in active service.　General Sugiyama (former Joint Chief of Staff, Japan), Toutake JAAGA president, General Yoshida (former Chief of Staff, JASDF), Ochi JAAGA vice president, Hirose JAAGA chairman, secretariat Yamamoto and secretariat Nagaiwa joined to this meeting.　Gen.Myers, Gen.Sugiyama and other participants are old friend since they were active, so they frankly talked about the hardship which they had overcome, and exchanged opinions on our country's situation surrounded by China and Korea Peninsula, next generation jet fighter, Futenma and many other military politico issues.　Gen.Myers commented that he had concern about recent political uncertainty in Japan from the point of view of maintaining strong alliance
　　When JAAGA delegation to US visited to Embassy of Japan in Washington DC. in September this year, Ambassador Fujisaki stated that "in order to establish reliable alliance between Japan-US, we will make list of US soldiers who have experience of station in Japan, and we will build grass-root network."　Gen.Myers said that "I think this program is actively promoting, and concrete organization will be established near future."　 I hope that this program will be strongly proceeded and this program will exert good influence to JAAGA purpose and JAAGA activities.
　　(reported by secretariat Nagaiwa)

　　　　　　　　　　

General Myers visits Japan