TOKYO -- Few may remember it today, but Sept. 6, 1976, was a day unlike any other in Japan's postwar defense history.
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Members of Japan's Self-Defense Forces hold an opening ceremony of a new military base on the island of Yonaguni in Okinawa Prefecture, on March 28, 2016. © Reuters
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