Arasaka Hokkaido Training Camp

The Arasaka Hokkaido Training Camp is a location in Cyberpunk 2020.

Overview
Located in the Northern island of Japan in the cold wilderness of the forested mountains of central Hokkaido is Arasaka's main troop training facility. There on a wide expanse of inhospitable land, several thousand potential guards, soldiers and agents go through tough courses in combat, security techniques, survival, infiltration, counter infiltration, espionage and counter espionage. Seasoned veterans run all aspects of the secretive training, pitting guards, soldiers and agents against each other in endless, harrowing exercises. Guards train for four months, soldiers train for eight months and special agents and bodyguards train for as long as deemed necessary. There are always several levels of training in progress at any given time. Seminars on loyalty to the Arasaka Corporation are also required study at the camp. Graduates are shipped out for assignment or on-site and special training. Those who fail the courses are shipped out in disgrace.

The Hokkaido camp's personnel facilities include an administration building, an officer's and trainers billet, and barracks for trainees. Aircraft land and take off from a full sized runway capable of handling heavy transports. Other buildings include two gymnasiums, a mess hall, four classroom buildings, and mock towns and tower sections for simulation training. Athletic fields, firing ranges, a hospital, hangars and storage buildings round out the camp.

The Hokkaido camp is not fenced, and there is little security other than a standing watch over the buildings, vehicles and automated air defenses. Any unauthorized intruders who disobey warnings to desist are shot or captured and interrogated. Counter infiltration is handled at the candidate recruitment stage back on Honshu. Any military attack will face the single largest concentration of Arasaka troops and hardware anywhere on earth. The only sensitive information on site are some equipment performance parameters and the identities of undercover Arasaka agents and solos. The inhospitable terrain surrounding the camp is a barrier to ground attack and the mountainous area limits air approaches to two directions.

The facility is located in the middle of nowhere, and as such has minimal security around the facility, any intruders are either shot or interrogated and if any larger forces foolishly decided to attack, they will find themselves up against the largest contingent of Arasaka soldiers anywhere on earth and all backed up by the latest equipment. Dozens of light to heavy vehicles are situated at the camp for any number of training exercises as well as several Ospreys, AVs and even two C-25 Cargo planes.

Details
Kei Arasaka, the once CEO of the Arasaka Corporation and eldest son of Saburo, considered himself of a man of action; in 1999, Kei amused himself by training at the Hokkaido facility, but when he took this training more seriously than his schooling, his father put a stop to it immediately. He still kept fit and occasionally practiced marksmanship and martial arts even after leaving the training camp.

All of the major higher ranking soldiers of Arasaka, have trained in the Hokkaido Training Camp. General Ubo Tanaka was one of the high ranking soldiers at the facility.