JMSDF 69th Overseas Training Cruise

The JMSDF will conduct the Overseas Training Cruise 2025 as follows.
1. Objectives
(1) To provide Trainee Officers with on-the-job training opportunities through sea cruises to reinforce knowledge and skills to familiarize them with the sea, and cultivate qualities required for officers.
(2) To have deployed personnel conduct exercises with foreign countries, improve understanding of the activities of these countries and develop an international sense through sailing in the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea and others.
(3) To promote friendship and goodwill with visiting countries and to contribute to the realization of a “Free and Open Indo-Pacific.”
2. Period, and others
(1) Period
June 13 – November 12, 2025 (153 days)
(2) Total distance of the cruise
Approx. 30,500 NM (Approx. 56,500 km)
3. Participating Units
(1) Commanding Officer
RADM WATANABE Hiroshi, Commander, Training Squadron
(2) Units
JS KASHIMA, JS SHIMAKAZE
(3) Personnel
Approx. 580 people, including graduates of the 75th General Officer Candidate Course
4. Port of call
Argentine Republic (Buenos Aires), Federative Republic of Brazil (Fortaleza and Santos), Republic of Chile (Valparaiso), Republic of Guatemala (Puerto Santo Tomas de Castilla), Republic of Peru (Callao), United States of America (Hilo, Jacksonville, Pearl Harbor, and
San Diego), United Mexican States (Acapulco)
5. Others
The Overseas Training Cruise has been conducted every year since 1958, and this will be the 69th.