Taiwan Security Monitor

Visualization: Japan’s Lower Island Evacuation Strategy

Author: Ian Struble, Chris Dayton

Research: Olivianna Watkins, Graham Coughlan


In March, the Japanese government announced plans to evacuate up to 120,000 civilians from the Sakishima Islands, part of Okinawa Prefecture, in the event of a Taiwan contingency.

This map is a visualization of those plans, showing the impacted islands and evacuation routes.