{"id":26185,"date":"2026-05-21T02:13:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T02:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/26185\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T02:13:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T02:13:05","slug":"us-to-send-typhon-himars-missile-systems-to-japan-for-drills-amid-china-tensions-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/26185\/","title":{"rendered":"US to send Typhon, Himars missile systems to Japan for drills amid China tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"

The US military will deploy its Typhon midrange missile launcher and Himars rocket system to southwestern Japan<\/a> next month for joint exercises with the Self-Defence Forces, sources familiar with the matter said on Wednesday, in a move apparently aimed at deterring China.<\/p>\n

The systems will be deployed to the Maritime Self-Defence Force\u2019s Kanoya Airbase in Kagoshima prefecture during the Valiant Shield and Orient Shield joint exercises between June and September, the sources said.<\/p>\n

The Typhon launcher is capable of firing Tomahawk cruise missiles with a range of about 1,600km (994 miles), as well as SM-6 interceptor missiles with a range exceeding 300km.<\/p>\n

The High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, or Himars, can carry up to six rockets or one Army Tactical Missile System, known as ATACMS, with a range of about 300km.<\/p>\n

After the joint exercises, the Typhon and Himars systems will move to a US military base in Japan for storage, the sources said. No live-fire drills are planned, according to the Japanese defence ministry.<\/p>\n

China slams Japan\u2019s first overseas missile launch in 80 years<\/p>\n

The Typhon system was deployed in Japan for the first time last September during large-scale bilateral exercises at the US Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni in Yamaguchi prefecture, western Japan, drawing criticism from China and Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US military will deploy its Typhon midrange missile launcher and Himars rocket system to southwestern Japan next…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[20888,12,13,544,5473,8,17,2683,20884,20887,636,6115,20886,20885,14265,1315],"class_list":["post-26185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-japan","tag-atacms","tag-china","tag-donald-trump","tag-himars","tag-iwakuni","tag-japan","tag-japanese","tag-kagoshima","tag-kanoya-airbase","tag-maritime-self-defence-force","tag-russia","tag-self-defence-forces","tag-sm-6","tag-tomahawk-cruise-missiles","tag-typhon","tag-us-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}