TOKYO: Japan’s military is to station four unarmed missiles on an island that sits on the gateway to the Pacific, officials said on Thursday, for a major drill that has made China nervous.

The exercise, aimed at bolstering defense of Japan’s southern islands, has already seen a launching system and a loader for Type-88 surface-to-ship missiles installed on Miyako island.

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