Study Tours(overseas)

The students from the Joint Advanced Course have a field trip to foreign countries as part of their educational program with the purpose of understanding international security environment and the current situation of joint operations and education.
   Their destinations are the headquarters of the military, bases, and National Defense Academies. Below are the countries, which they have visited since the first Joint Advanced Course in 2006, listed in the order of first time visit: Korea(10 times), China(7 times), Pakistane(once), Thailand(4 times), Vietnam(3 times), Indonesia(twice), Malaysia(twice), Singapore(twice), Australia(4 times), France(once), India(twice), The Philippines(once).

One of the Delegation Groups from the 20th Joint Advanced Course, led by the head of the Education Division, Col Yamashita, and by the chief of the First Instructors’ office, CAPT Tanaka, visited Australia for an overseas field trip from the 5th to the 10th of June 2016. The aim of the trip is to gain the understanding of the situational understanding, defense policy, and status-quo of the armed forces of Australia. The main destinations were as follows:

• Department of Defense of Australia
• Headquarters of Maritime Force Command
• Headquarters of Ground Force Command
• Headquarters of Air Force Command
• Australian War Memorial
• National Maritime Museum

Q&A at the Department of Defense	Gift exchange at the headquarters of Air Force command
Presentation of gift at the Embassy	Australian War Memorial
National Maritime museum

One of the Delegation Groups from the 20th Joint Advanced Course, led by the commandant of the Joint Staff College, VADM Sakata, and by the chief of the Second Instructors’ office, COL Nishi, visited Malaysia and Singapore for an overseas field trip from the 6th to the 11th of June 2016. The aim of the trip is to gain the understanding of the situational understanding, defense policy, and status-quo of the armed forces of Australia. The main destinations were as follows:

• Malaysian Peacekeeping Centre
• Malaysian Army Museum
• Malaysian Armed Forces Headquarters
• Changi Naval Base in Singapore
• Singapore Military School
• Sembawang Naval Base in Singapore

   Malaysia

Gift Exchange at the Malaysian Armed Forces Headquarters	Lecture by the Ambassador Miyakawa, at the Japanese Embassy in Malaysia
Signing the visitor’s book at the Army Museum

   Singapore

Group photo at Changi Naval Base	Lecture by the Ambassador Shinoda
Consolation of the souls of the war dead in the Japanese Cemetery Park in Singapore