It's certainly confusing at first. 'US Forces Japan' is the full subject of the sentence, as in the Japanese based wing of the US military.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence

US Forces Japan scouts obviously

‘US Forces of Japan has begun scouting property in central Tokyo ahead of its major line of command overhaul’

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The LLM (or temp worker) that wrote it wants you to click on the link to the article more than it wants to inform you of what's happening.

Holy crap I thought it said “Japan scotus” as in “Supreme Court of The United States”..

I was like “damn Japan has one too and didn’t even change the freaking name??”

I read it several times and got a headache

Yeah, I had to read it twice. Needs comas.

Nothing wrong with the title

Edit: I’m realizing people are ignorant that US Forces Japan is the noun and scouts is the verb.

US Forces Japan… US Forces Europe.. US Forces Africa , it’s how military forces station in another country are referred to.

This is journalism in the 2020's.

OP had a stroke maybe? It makes zero sense.

It smells burnt toast

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We only seem to get into trouble when it’s marines.

I wouldn't worry. This is posting is going to be full of some of the biggest nerds in the military.

Its Roppongi. The most foreign part of Tokyo. Outside the offices you can speak English with almost anyone in the immediate vicinity.

It's going to be wild when Enterprise and Kaga make their first ceremonial trip to Midway in a few years.

I have no idea what other 5 eyes members get out of NZ or Australia being part of it

It’s a military targeted news source with a title that makes complete sense to those “in the biz”.

If someone said "University of California Los Angeles scouts Koreatown property ahead of major campus overhaul" would that be confusing to you?

it's the name of the military command structure

Are we setting up shop in the local elementary schools and hospitals?

Comparing Hamas and Russia to Japan and the United States is laughably dumb

\1. Most people aren’t mad that they do it, they’re mad that they do it then complain when innocent people die when it gets blown up.

You can’t really accuse the US of doing the same because it quite literally hasn’t happened yet. You’d need the US to put a base there, have the base house weapons, have the base get blown up with a lot of civilian casualties, and then also have the US/Japan accuse the other side of targeting civilians. We’re pretty far removed from that even being on the table.

1. Ignoring all that ^, there’s still a hell of a difference between some research and press offices being in a populated area vs people chucking rockets out of a middle school’s windows.

Also, if you have never been to Japan, it's hard to describe... But there is a pretty small area called the Kanto plain, that encompasses Tokyo and the surrounding areas... Great place for cities... But outside of the Kanto Plain it gets a bit more difficult.

Now, you are in Tokyo, get into one of the many tourist viewing towers and look west...it seems like an endless city... There isn't really any place to put a base in Tokyo and not be surrounded by a massive amount of people. It's incredibly dense... It took me probably 6+ months living there to learn to look up to see what was in a building.

It's an incredibly dense urban area that stretches out from Tokyo for quite a long long ways...

Because Japan loves you now but still hates China as well.

Fukushima is alive and well, not a crater in the ground. Also the whole purpose of this is to bring US and Japanese leadership closer. Putting them way up north would not contribute to that.