Michael Cash wrote:

> All sorts of GSDF hardware to be seen just a wee bit down the road
> (254) from you....but come to think of it, I've never seen tanks there
> either. They have some light armored fighting vehicles (wheeled), but
> I can't recall seeing tanks there. Nor at the Nerima base just a bit
> further down the road from you than that either.

I spent five years just a couple of miles from the Yokota base, and the 
most one generally saw of it off-base - apart from a few planes shooting 
past and ruining the peace of a Sunday morning - was the occasional 
American out for a night on the tiles.

John
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