The is the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Forces's training unit to prepare JGSDF soldiers by training them in scenarios that would require the mobilization of JGSDF forces in other countries. It is based in the JGSDF's Camp Komakado in the Shizuoka Prefecture. The IPCATU aims to have 240 soldiers graduate from the unit's training program annually. Colonel Karube says training with the IPCATU is an "important point is to verify whether the training now being conducted can really be useful in theaters of activity overseas and to develop unified know-how for personnel education."