Selected U.S. military installations in Japan

A sample data frame containing selected U.S. military installations in Japan with longitude/latitude coordinates and public approximate personnel figures where those figures have a clear source.

Format

A data frame with 17 rows and 12 variables:

base

Installation or command name.

branch

Primary U.S. military branch.

prefecture

Japanese prefecture.

municipality

Municipality or municipalities.

lon

Longitude in WGS84.

lat

Latitude in WGS84.

personnel

Approximate public personnel figure, when available.

personnel_scope

What the public figure counts.

personnel_geography

Whether the figure describes an installation, regional total, command, or broader installation community.

personnel_is_base_specific

Whether personnel is interpreted as a base-specific figure.

source_url

Source URL.

note

Caveat for use in examples.

Details

These values are intended for examples and are not an official personnel accounting. Some rows describe broader installation, regional, command, or community populations; see personnel_scope and personnel_geography.

Source

Public installation, command, and regional pages listed in the source_url column, including https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misawa_Air_Base, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yokota_Air_Base, and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okinawa_Island.