MSDF officers will command the ships, while GSDF troops form the core crew, highlighting a rare inter-service synergy in Japan’s traditionally siloed military. This step aligns with Japan’s evolving ...

Yamato was the lead ship of her class, constructed under extreme secrecy at the Kure Naval Arsenal in Hiroshima Prefecture. Ordered in 1937 as part of Japan’s rapid naval rearmament following ...

including small transport ships and high-speed boats, by the end of fiscal 2027 to enable docking at shallow ports and beach landings on remote islands. The vessels will be deployed at the Kure ...

At the same time, because GSDF members are not used to operating ships, there are concerns about the actual operations of the group. Meanwhile, the Kure city government is also hoping that the SDF ...

The target was to stop the Yamato flotilla headed out of southern Japan (Kure harbor ... landing bombs that knocked out the ships’ radar and some anti-aircraft batteries, starting fires that ...

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He added that securing ships to be able to deploy quickly to the southwestern region has been a long-standing issue for the JSDF, but the joint operation of the Maritime Transport Group will ...

A total of five ships forming four surface units deploy during ... Cambodia and the Philippines before arriving home at Kure Naval Base on May 10. In a press conference on Tuesday, Japan Defense ...

The nation's Defense Ministry held an inaugural ceremony for a new Self-Defense Forces unit focused on maritime transportation at the Maritime SDF's Kure base ... of transport ships at the ...

The merchant ships that have been built were for the Jones ... Harland and Wolff, U.K.; IHI Kure Yard, Japan; Kvaerner Govan, U.K.; and Odense, Denmark. Survey Results It was determined that ...

"The unit will facilitate quicker and more secure troop deployments," Nakatani stated during a ceremony in Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture ... The captains of the two ships are members of the Maritime ...