{"id":14344,"date":"2016-01-21T21:58:12","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T21:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2016\/01\/21\/u-s-japan-navies-conduct-war-games-near-guam\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T19:06:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T19:06:49","slug":"u-s-japan-navies-conduct-war-games-near-guam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/your-navy\/2016\/01\/21\/u-s-japan-navies-conduct-war-games-near-guam\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S., Japan navies conduct war games near Guam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The U.S. and Japan are playing war games near <span class=\"rte rte-comment\">the U.S. island of <\/span>Guam<span class=\"rte rte-comment\">,<\/span> as their alliance deepens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The destroyers Mustin and McCampbell are exercising with about half a dozen Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force ships and training to hunt submarines and engage incoming fighters,\u00a0<span class=\"rte rte-comment\">in anti-ship, anti-aircraft and anti-conducting anti-surface, anti-air and anti-subsurface operations, <\/span>according to a Wednesday press release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The exercises will also include a maritime patrol aircraft, several EA-18G Growlers<span class=\"rte rte-comment\">,<\/span> designed for electronic warfare attacks, and a submarine<span class=\"rte rte-comment\">s<\/span>. The release did not specify if the sub was American.\u00a0<span class=\"rte rte-comment\">which nation\u2019s submarine it was, but the attack submarine Texas is deployed to the region and is currently on a port visit to Sasebo, Japan.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Guam Exercise, or GUAMEX, is an annual exercise with the JMSDF. Japan <span class=\"rte rte-comment\">has been <\/span>is taking a more assertive role in regional security in the wake of provocations from China, which <span class=\"rte rte-comment\">has <\/span>built islands out of reefs in the South China Sea and imposed an air defense identification zone over the East China Sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Japan, <span class=\"rte rte-comment\">The country, <\/span>led by its Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, <span class=\"rte rte-comment\">has been <\/span>is revisiting its constitution and weighing changes that would allow Japan to take part in combat operations with coalition partners like the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Japanese naval officials have <span class=\"rte rte-comment\">also <\/span>said they might begin patrolling the highly <span class=\"rte rte-comment\">contended <\/span>contentious South China Sea alongside U.S. warships. 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