In the event of an emergency overseas, it is an obvious duty to transport foreign nationals working at Japanese embassies and other related people by aircraft or other means, in a similar manner to Japanese nationals. It is important to appropriately review laws about this matter and their implementation.
The government has drawn up a bill to revise the Self-Defense Forces Law concerning the transport of Japanese nationals in emergencies. It plans to submit the legislation to the Diet soon.
The main aim of the revision is to allow the government to dispatch SDF personnel to an area under an emergency to evacuate foreign nationals, such as employees working at Japanese embassies, the Japan International Cooperation Agency and similar entities, even if there are no Japanese nationals in the area.
