JMSDF Overseas Training Cruise 2024
The JMSDF will conduct the Overseas Training Cruise 2024 as follows. 1. Objectives (1) To provide Trainee Officers with on-the-job training opportunities through sea cruises to reinforce knowledge and skills…
Operational Turnaround for INS Kadmatt at Yokosuka
INS Kadmatt, on a Long Range Operational Deployment to the North Pacific Ocean entered Yokosuka, Japan on Dec 02, 2023 for an Operational Turnaround (OTR). Onboard visits including professional interactions…
South Korea Leads ROKN-USN-JMSDF Maritime Training
The ROK-US Navy and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force conducted ‘ROK-US-Japan maritime training’ in the high seas southeast of Jeju on November 26. This exercise is intended to demonstrate the…
Countries Go From Strength to Strength
Naval and air assets from the ADF recently joined forces with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) for Exercise Nichi Gou Trident (NGT) 23-2 during a regional presence deployment. Australia…
DSCA Approves Tomahawks for Japan
The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of Japan of Tomahawk Weapon System and related equipment for an estimated cost of…
Australia, Canada, Japan, U.S. Navies Partner in Multilateral Exercise
Naval forces from Australia, Canada, Japan, and the U.S. have joined together to conduct multilateral exercise Annual Exercise (ANNUALEX) 2023 in the Philippine Sea, Nov. 11, 2023. Throughout the exercise,…
Japan Commends Canadian Participation on North Korea Monitoring
In early September, Royal Canadian Navy frigate HMCS VANCOUVER began and has completed monitoring and surveillance activities against illicit maritime activities, including ship-to-ship transfers with North Korean-flagged vessels prohibited by…
JMSDF Shadows Russian Corvette Gromkiy
At around 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday, October 25, 2020, the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force arrived at Cape Soya (Hokkaido). In the sea approximately 100 km northeast of One Qi, corvette…
Minehunter Noumi Launched in Yokohama
Japan Marine United Co., Ltd. (President: Nobuyuki Nada, Headquarters: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture) is for the Ministry of Defense. The launch ceremony for the Minesweeper (MSO) planned for FY2020 was…