Public Service/Public Relations during Anpo, the Olympics, and the Mishima Incident

For many years since it opened in 2002, the GSDF Public Information Center on Asaka Base, located on the outskirts of Tokyo, has displayed over a half-dozen oil paintings by the artist Ono Hisako representing key events in the history of the force. Some of those events might be familiar to visitors: the founding of Police Reserve Force in 1950, Prime Minister Yoshida reviewing units in 1954, the first GSDF combined exercises with the US armed forces in 1981, the force’s first United Nations peacekeeping operation in Cambodia in 1992, the Kobe earthquake disaster-relief mission in 1995, an international disaster-relief