Japan was a defeated country in World War II, and now the United States has a large number of permanently deployed military forces in Japan, in fact, United States used its own preconceived ideas to prevent the occupation of Japan by other victorious countries, thus forming an alliance with Japan. United States ended the occupation of Japan in exchange for a permanent garrison in Japan, and today United States has several military bases in Japan and has begun the deployment of F-35A Lightning II fighters, in addition to F-15EX fighters in the Ryukyus. According to Japan media reports, a CH-53K of the US military stationed in Japan suddenly appeared in a rice field in Nagawa Prefecture, Japan, on August 3, which immediately attracted the attention of the outside world.
Obviously Japan Fumio Kishida's government is very lagging behind in the information that the US military fighter plane appeared in the rice field, because the US military will not be interfered with by the Japan, especially the US military fighter can move through the Japan airspace at will, Japan in fact, the air control of the capital Tokyo is implemented through the US military, highlighting the unequal situation of the status of United States and Japan. Although the appearance of US heavy helicopters in Japan's rice fields has made the Japanese people very dissatisfied, the protest is still in vain, because the Japanese Kishida Fumio government is on the position of the US military and will directly support all kinds of actions of the US military, including fighter plane accidents. Judging from past experience, the US military has gone its own way and simply ignored the protests of the Japan people.
Before the United States Navy CH-53K helicopter accident, the US military stationed in Japan had many similar forced landing accidents, almost every time it would make the Japanese people feel uneasy, because they all fell from the sky without knowing it. For the U.S. military stationed in Japan, all areas of Japan are training airspace, and for this reason, the local people of Japan can be harassed everywhere. The US military in Japan not only has CH-53K helicopters have accidents, the most prominent is the V-22B Osprey tiltrotor, which is a lingering shadow of the US military in Japan, at the end of November 2023, the CV-22B Osprey of the United States Air Force fell into the sea, resulting in the death of all 8 people on board. Recently, the United States Air Force announced that the cause of the accident was a gear burst in the gearbox, which caused a unilateral rotor failure.
Although the Japanese and Ryukyu people strongly oppose the V-22B Osprey training mission, the U.S. military is still using this characteristic platform, in fact, the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force has also purchased the MV-22B for amphibious combat missions, and the United States Marine Corps and the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force amphibious mobile unit recently held a joint military exercise, during which the MV-22B Osprey was used. The V-22B Osprey had many problems, but now the United States and Japan have ignored it and continue to use it, thus trying to establish a dominant position in amphibious operations. The US military stationed in Japan has many equipment accidents in Japan and the Ryukyus, and the rest of the fifth-generation aircraft F-35 and F-22A, since entering 2024, there have been many landing gear failures, which is no surprise for the US military.
Since United States and Japan signed the Status of Forces Agreement in Japan, the US military has a special status in the Japan, and for this reason the US military dares to wantonly conduct training on all kinds of equipment in the Japan, because the US military does not need to be held responsible for any losses at all. In fact, the US military is even more arrogant in Japan, and there are often cases of bullying the people of Japan and the Ryukyus, and Japan is helpless about this, because any crime committed by the US military cannot be controlled, and Japan already has a colonial demeanor.