Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Lt. Col. Kousuke Takada, Chief of Public Affairs for JGSDF’s Northern Army listens to an information operations scenario brief during Yama Sakura 85 at Camp Higashi-Chitose, Japan Dec. 7, 2023. The information operations working group, one of many trilateral working groups during YS 85, requires each participating nation to contend with the complexities of the information space alongside their respective national and international considerations.