U.S. to deploy missile units to Japan islands in Taiwan contingency

The U.S. military will set up temporary bases along Japan's southwestern Nansei island chain and the Philippines to deploy missile units in the event of a Taiwan contingency, sources familiar with Japan-U.S. relations said Sunday.The deployment of the missile units will be incorporated in the first joint operation plan for the United States and Japan to cope with a contingency involving Taiwan and China, which regards the self-ruled island as its own, to be formulated in December.The U.S. Marine Littoral Regiment, which possesses a multiple-launch High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, will…READ FULL ARTICLE