The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force will launch its Indo-Pacific Deployment on April 21. A total of five ships forming four ...

Japan formally activated on Sunday a new joint maritime transport unit geared towards improving troop deployment capabilities ...

This wasn't created by CGI, and instead occurred in San Diego last Saturday as the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force (JMSDF) helicopter destroyer JS Kaga (DDH-184) arrived – where it will ...

The JMSDF has two MLs/tenders, three ocean minehunters and minesweepers with deepwater MCM capability, and twenty-one coastal minehunters and minesweepers, as well as a squadron of MCM helicopters.

Two Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) Sikorsky SH-60K Seahawk helicopters crashed during a nighttime training mission, with one dead and seven missing. Initial reports are that the ...

It is also equipped with unmanned underwater vehicles for mine countermeasures and one Seahawk helicopter. In a statement, the Noshiro’s captain, Commander Hori Tetsunobu, described the Philippines as ...