Lt. Gen. Tadao Maeda, Commanding General, Ground Component Command, Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, shakes hands with Air Force Lt. Gen. Ricky Rupp, Commander, Forces Japan, during Exercise Yama Sakura 83 at Camp Asaka, Japan, Dec. 12, 2022. YS83, the largest and most complex forward command post exercise to date, allowed participants from multiple units across Japan and the to bolster the two nations' interoperability in rigorous but realistic scenarios.

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