<span style="color: #222222;">Japanese troops stormed a beach in the Philippines today in joint exercises with US and Filipino troops that officials said marked the first time Tokyo's armoured vehicles rolled on foreign soil since World War II. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The exercise, codenamed Kamandag, marked the first time Japanese armoured military vehicles were used on foreign soil since 1945. Japan's Major Koki Inoue said that the purpose is to improve Japan's operational capability, humanitarian assistance and disaster relief training.</span><br />''  <br />