日美两军计划于2006年1月首度举行代号为“山樱”的“离岛夺回演习”,模拟远离日本本土的某个西南孤立岛屿遭占领后,日美合作重夺该岛的行动。由于日本在西南方向与中国和韩国存在着严重的领土纠纷,而在美日韩三国同盟框架下,日韩发生冲突的可能性很小,所以,这次史无前历的演习 Japan and the United States plan to hold the “outlying islands reclaiming exercise” codenamed “Sakura-shi” for the first time in January 2006 to simulate the Japan-US cooperation to regain the island after the occupation of an isolated southwest island away from Japan was occupied. Due to Japan’s serious territorial dispute with China and South Korea in the southwest and the possibility of a clash between Japan and South Korea under the framework of the trilateral coalition of the United States, Japan and South Korea, the unprecedented exercise