F-15J Eagle fighter aircraft at Chitose Air Base in Hokkaido, Japan. Photo: AFP F-15J Eagle fighter aircraft at Chitose Air Base in Hokkaido, Japan. Photo: AFP
F-15J Eagle fighter aircraft at Chitose Air Base in Hokkaido, Japan. Photo: AFP
This Week in Asia /  Politics

Japan suspicious as Chinese, South Korean companies buy land near military sites

  • At least 80 plots of land near sensitive sites have been sold to Chinese and South Korean companies in the past decade and transactions are on the rise
  • ‘We do not believe it can be a coincidence’, says official within the Cabinet Secretariat

Topic |   China-Japan relations
Julian Ryall
Julian Ryall

Updated: 10:43pm, 9 Dec, 2020

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F-15J Eagle fighter aircraft at Chitose Air Base in Hokkaido, Japan. Photo: AFP F-15J Eagle fighter aircraft at Chitose Air Base in Hokkaido, Japan. Photo: AFP
F-15J Eagle fighter aircraft at Chitose Air Base in Hokkaido, Japan. Photo: AFP
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