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Japan's next SDF mission to Mideast may include its biggest warships

National / Politics Dec 2, 2019

Japan's next SDF mission to Mideast may include its biggest warships

The next Self-Defense Forces dispatch to the Middle East could get Cabinet approval by the end of the year.

In symbolic first, Abe and Trump jointly address military personnel aboard Japan's Kaga carrier

National / Politics May 28, 2019

In symbolic first, Abe and Trump jointly address military personnel aboard Japan's Kaga carrier

by Sakura Murakami

Peppered with pomp and decorum, Trump’s four-day visit to Japan ended with a gesture highlighting the long-standing military ties between the two countries.

MSDF ships on Indo-Pacific mission stop in Singapore during ASEAN plus defense summit

National Oct 19, 2018

MSDF ships on Indo-Pacific mission stop in Singapore during ASEAN plus defense summit

Two Maritime Self-Defense Force ships are in Singapore — where a major meeting of defense ministers is under way — as the last stop of a two-month deployment through the Indo-Pacific region. At a news conference Thursday aboard the helicopter carrier and destroyer Kaga, berthed ...

Japanese helicopter carrier wages daily war on dirt and grime

National Oct 11, 2018

Japanese helicopter carrier wages daily war on dirt and grime

by Tim Kelly

The Kaga helicopter carrier is not the biggest, fastest or most powerful warship to sail the seas, but its 500 crew wage a daily war on dirt and grime to keep it the cleanest. At sunset each evening on a nine-day goodwill voyage from Indonesia ...

Japan's female sailors serve on front line of gender equality

National / Social Issues Oct 10, 2018

Japan's female sailors serve on front line of gender equality

Women serving on Japan's biggest warship, the Kaga, are a tight-knit group on the front line of a push to transform the Japanese navy into a mixed-gender fighting force, where men outnumber them more than 10 to one. The Maritime Self Defense Force needs more ...

Japanese helicopter carrier Kaga conducts drills with British warship, headed for contested South China Sea

National Sep 27, 2018

Japanese helicopter carrier Kaga conducts drills with British warship, headed for contested South China Sea

Japan's biggest warship, the Kaga helicopter carrier, joined naval drills with Britain's HMS Argyll in the Indian Ocean on Wednesday as the frigate headed toward the contested South China Sea and East Asia. Britain, Japan and their close ally the United States have found common ...

Japan to send helicopter destroyer for rare long-term joint exercises in South China Sea and Indian Ocean

National / Politics | ANALYSIS Aug 22, 2018

Japan to send helicopter destroyer for rare long-term joint exercises in South China Sea and Indian Ocean

by Jesse Johnson

The Maritime Self-Defense Force will link up with five Asian navies and the U.S. during a dispatch involving three vessels that is certain to stoke anger in Beijing.

Ishikawa firm's styrofoam domes find favor with farmers seeking disaster-proof growing environment

Business / Corporate Feb 2, 2017

Ishikawa firm's styrofoam domes find favor with farmers seeking disaster-proof growing environment

by Nana Kunieda

For years, Katsuyuki Kitagawa dreamed of living in a comfortable home in the shape of a domed manju (dumpling), minus the bean paste. For over a decade his firm, Japan Dome House Co., based in Kaga, Ishikawa Prefecture, has come about as close to that ...

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