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The , is the main branch of the Japan Self-Defense Forces responsible for land-based military operations. It is the ''de facto'' army of Japan. The JGSDF was created on July 1, 1954. It is sometimes also referred to as the GSDF. New military guidelines, announced in December 2010 will direct the Jieitai away from its Cold War focus on the Soviet Union to a focus on China, especially regarding the dispute over the Senkaku Islands. The largest of the three services of the Japan Self-Defense Forces, the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force is tasked with maintaining internal security in Japan and operates under the command of the chief of the ground staff, based in the city of Ichigaya, Shinjuku, Tokyo. The present chief of the ground staff is General Kiyofumi Iwata (Japanese: 岩田 清文). The JGSDF numbered around 150,000 soldiers in 2008.〔IISS Military Balance 2008, Routledge, London, 2008, p.384〕 As of 2010, the number remained the same at approximately 150,000 personnel.〔IISS 2010, pp. 408–411〕 ==History== For a long period, the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force possessed a dubious ability to hold off a Soviet invasion of Hokkaido. Zbigniew Brzezinski observed in 1972 that it seemed optimized to fight ‘a Soviet invasion conducted on American patterns of a quarter of a century ago.’〔Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Fragile Blossom (Harper, 1972) p.95, in James H. Buck, ‘The Japanese Military in the 1980s,’ in James H. Buck (ed.), The Modern Japanese Military System, Sage Publications, Beverly Hills/London, 1975, p.220〕 While the force is now an efficient army of around 150,000.〔IISS 2010, pp. 408–411〕 its apparent importance had, until recently, seemingly declined with the end of the Cold War, and attempts to reorient the forces as a whole to new post Cold War missions have been tangled in a series of internal political disputes. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Japan Ground Self-Defense Force」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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