Japan’s Sakishima Evacuation Planning: Readiness Gaps and Strategic Signaling in a Taiwan Strait Contingency
Japan has issued initial guidelines to evacuate roughly 120,000 people from the Sakishima Islands to Kyushu and Yamaguchi, a move widely linked to Taiwan Strait contingency planning. The source identifies key weaknesses in evacuation triggers, transparency, and long-term displacement planning that could affect both humanitarian outcomes and deterrence credibility.