http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20070829-00000004-yom-pol
reported:

Four next patrol planes 67,900,000,000,
Defense ministry roughly estimated budget demand 4,800,000,000,000 yen

Phantoms Go Home

] For example, F-15 will eventually replace the F-4 at Naha AB, Okinawa Prefecture, to balance the modernising PLAAF.

http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20070827-00000913-san-pol
reported:

In 2008, about 20 F-15s of 204th Hikoutai, based at Hyakuri AB, Ibaraki Prefecture, will replace about 20 F-4s of 302nd Hikoutai, based at Naha AB, Okinawa Prefecture.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/mil/2007-08/27/content_6608967.htm

(This is on the official Xin Hua Net, so it must be true.)

Middle August, probably 2007:
Propeller aircraft.
Unknown division, 4th flight school, PLAAF, based in northern China. (Original article filed from Shi Jia Zhuang City, He Bei Province…)
Afternoon, emergency landed in corn field.
Two pilots not wounded. Student Cheng Long Fa in front, instructor Wu Shao Xiang in back.

17:48:23, soon after take off, at altitude 25 m, engine trouble.
Wu assumed control, but engine didn’t resume normal operation.
He declared emergency landing to control tower, and turned left to avoid village with 500 families, a factory, and a gas station.
Opened canopies, flew under power lines, and into two-metre-tall corn stalks.
Ploughed through 40 m of corn field until aircraft stopped, without looping or rolling, by 17:49:04.

http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20070826-00000009-jijp-soci.view-000
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20070826-00000914-san-pol
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20070826-00000022-jij-soci
reported:

JGSDF AH-64D debuted at Fuji Combined Firepower Exercise, at Higashi Fuji exercise range, Shizuoka Prefecture, on 26 August 2007.

Personnel, about 2,000 people.
Type 90 main battle tanks and other ground vehicles, about 60 units.
Artillery, about 40 units.
Helicopters and other aircraft, about 20 units.
Ammunitions, about 39 tons.
Costs, 310 million Yen.
Duration, about 1.5 hours.
Visitors, about 24,000 people.

[Mister Spock Mode ON]

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%97%A5%E5%90%91_%28%E6%88%A6%E8%89%A6%29

FYI, in WWII, the Hyuuga was the second of the Ise Class battleships, IJN.
Later, turrets #5 and #6 removed, and aft section became flight deck and hangar deck.

During Battle of Leyte in 1944, carried two catapults and 22 aircraft.
Flight deck too short for aircraft to land. Non-amphibious aircraft landed on other aircraft carriers, or air bases on ground.
Amphibious aircraft recovered by crane.

On 24 July 1945, during bombing at Kure military port, sunk by waves of USN aircraft.
By July 1947, scrapping completed.

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%97%A5%E5%90%91%E5%9B%BD

Hyuuga was ancient name for modern Miyazaki Prefecture, Kyuushuu, and covered part of modern Kagoshima Prefecture.

[Mister Spock Mode OFF]

http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/videonews/fnn/20070824/20070824-00000921-fnn-soci.html

Video news about the Japanese stealth fighter project.
Vectored thrust nozzles.
Test flight of 1/5 model.
Two years ago, radar test in France. RCS smaller than medium-size bird, bigger than insect.

Includes a few seconds of JASDF F-4 and USAF F-22 in Okinawa Prefecture. 8D

] should Japan ever decide to deploy such a thing (heaven forfend!), an amphibious force.

FYI, other JMSDF ships already used LCACs to deliver disaster relief supplies directly to coastal victims of natural disasters, such as earthquake and typhoon inside and outside Japan. For instance, the earthquake in Niigata Prefecture a month or two ago.
They certainly have the capability and equipment.