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Topic: Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force

	Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Throughout the Cold War, due to the size and power of the Soviet Navy's submarine forces, the JMSDF was tasked primarily an anti-submarine role.
		Defense planners believe the most effective approach to combating submarines entails mobilizing all available weapons, including surface combatants, submarines, aircraft, and helicopters, and the numbers and armament of these weapons were increased in the Mid-Term Defense Estimate.
		The MSDF is commanded by the chief of the maritime staff and includes the maritime staff office, the self-defense fleet, five regional district commands, the air-training squadron and various support units, such as hospitals and schools.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Japan_Maritime_Self-Defense_Force (1347 words)

	Japan Self-Defense Forces - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The law states that ground, maritime, and air forces are to preserve the peace and independence of the nation and to maintain national security by conducting operations on land, at sea, and in the air to defend the nation against direct and indirect aggression.
		The SDF disaster relief role is defined in Article 83 of the Self-Defense Forces Law of 1954, requiring units to respond to calls for assistance from prefectural governors to aid in fire fighting, earthquake disasters, searches for missing persons, rescues, and reinforcement of embankments and levees in the event of flooding.
		Although the Japanese people retained a lingering suspicion of the armed services, in the late 1980s antimilitarism had moderated, compared with its form in the early 1950s when the SDF was established.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Japan_Self-Defense_Forces (4428 words)

	Japan-U.S. Forces Train for Defense
		The Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) destroyer Haruna (DD 141) (on left) receives an underway fuel replenishment along with the carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63), from the USNS Tippecanoe (TAO 199) (in center), during ANNUALEX 99.
		This maritime exercise tested the ability of the U.S. Seventh Fleet and elements of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) to conduct coordinated bilateral operations in the defense of Japan.
		Eleven Japanese defense officials, including Adm. Yasumasa Yamamoto, Chief of Staff of the JMSDF, were invited aboard the USS Kitty Hawk to witness a series of air power demonstrations by CVW-5 pilots.
	forum.apan-info.net /summer99web/annualex.html (503 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Exercise Displays Japan's Ambitions
		With a defense budget larger than Britain's, Japan is preparing to deploy a 600-foot, 13,500-ton helicopter carrier, the first in its fleet.
		On the table, Japanese officials say, is a new concept of "an alliance in global terms" in which the armed forces would work more closely with the U.S. military, both at home and on missions abroad.
		Citing the Japanese military presence in Iraq, Islamic radicals kidnapped and beheaded Shosei Koda, 24, a Japanese backpacker, whose body was recovered in Baghdad wrapped in an American flag.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A31046-2004Nov6?language=printer (1372 words)

	The JMSDF (Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force)
		The JMSDF has removed numerous mines laid in Japanese waters and ports during the World War II and is still engaged in minesweeping operations which are active to this very day.
		The JMSDF possesses a rescue amphibian ship, US-1A, for the maritime rescue operations, rescue helos for the aerial rescue in the vicinity of the air base and submarine rescue vessel for rescuing submarines.
		The JMSDF dispatches its personnel to relief work in close contact with the authorities concerned to protect human life and individual property when there are natural disasters such as typhoons, torrential rain, earthquakes, rescue of people, ships and aircraft in distress, emergency transportation of patients, and relief supplies.
	www.onlineessays.com /essays/history/his255.php (1671 words)

	Japan Defense Agency
		However, the term Defense Agency is used to denote an administrative organization responsible for the management, operation, etc., of the GSDF, MSDF and ASDF, while the term SDF is used to mean armed organizations that conduct unit activities for the defense of the nation and for other purposes.
		Japan's national defense policy has been based on maintaining the 1960 Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security with the United States, under which Japan assumed unilateral responsibility for its own internal security and the United States agreed to join in Japan's defense in the event that Japan or its territories were attacked.
		The internal bureaus, especially the Bureau of Defense Policy, Bureau of Finance, and the Bureau of Equipment, are often headed by officials from other ministries and are the main centers of power and instruments of civilian control in the Defense Agency.
	www.fas.org /irp/world/japan/jda.htm (3282 words)

	International Assessment and Strategy Center > Research > Growing Asymmetries in the China-Japan Naval Balance
		The well-equipped Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force (JMSDF) is widely respected for its professionalism and the experience derived from years of intensive training with the U.S. Navy.
		Japan’s balanced naval force of about 45 destroyers, 9 frigates and 16-17 submarines are divided into four Escort Flotilla’s designed to protect shipping lanes in concert with shore-based ASW and strike aircraft, and to work in cooperation with U.S. naval forces.
		Japanese F-15Js Are Vulnerable: Japan is just starting to modify some of its F-15J fighters to carry modern medium-range self-guided AAM-4 anti-air missiles, but it is not clear when they will have helmet-sighted short-range missiles, both of which now arm the latest PLA fighters.
	www.strategycenter.net /research/pubID.83/pub_detail.asp (4683 words)

	Pacific Fleet Online
		These forces, along with their counterparts in the Japan Self-Defense Forces, make up the core capabilities needed by the alliance to meet our common strategic objectives.
		This posture allows the most rapid response times possible for maritime and joint forces, and brings our most capable ships with the greatest amount of striking power and operational capability to bear in the timeliest manner.
		This ship rotation is part of the Navy's long-range effort to routinely replace older ships assigned to the Navy’s forward deployed naval forces with newer or more capable platforms, and is part of an ongoing effort to consider the nature of all forward-deployed forces when looking at the unpredictable security environment in the Western Pacific.
	www.cpf.navy.mil /news_images/0510/051027f.htm (932 words)

	The Mighty Japanese Navy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The JMSDF (Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force) is arguably the second-best navy in the Pacific, trailing only the United States Navy.
		The JMSDF has a large number of modern surface warships and the third-largest submarine force in the Pacific, and it could be a potential player in any fight in the Formosa Strait, due to the fact that Japan’s ties with Taiwan have become much closer.
		The primary surface vessels in the JMSDF are the destroyers.
	www.strategypage.com /dls/articles/200522521.asp (766 words)

	JMSDF Destroyers
		The Japanese treated their DASH operation with much more prestige as the commanding Officer of the Training School was a full Captain with full commanders as maintenance and training officers.
		Further, while the JMSDF was a coastal defense force with the resulting short-logistic supply chain, the U.S. Navy was a "Blue Water Navy" with responsibilities all over the world resulting in a very long logistics supply chain.
		However, it should also be stated, that for the Japanese, the DASH equipped Destroyers were the equivalent to "their aircraft carriers"; those JMSDF DASH destroyers received the best personnel and had the highest priority in their Navy.
	www.gyrodynehelicopters.com /jmsdf_destroyers.htm (2528 words)

	Air Force Magazine
		Numerous bills passed by the Japanese Diet in recent years have relaxed restrictions on the deployment of the JSDF (albeit in noncombat roles), for instance, and focused on improved military preparedness.
		is attempting to expand its sphere of maritime activity while driving the modernization of its nuclear and missile forces as well as naval and air forces.
		Because of its defensive posture, the JASDF lacks significant precision air-to-ground capability for offensive operations, but its air superiority capabilities are tops in the region.
	www.afa.org /magazine/June2005/0605japan.asp (2761 words)

	Coast Guard Secures Japanese Naval Vessels
		- The Coast Guard Maritime Safety and Security Team (MSST) Anchorage is providing waterside and shoreside security for the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force vessels moored at the Port of Anchorage this week.
		The three Japanese vessels departed Homer Tuesday morning and three MSST small boats escorted them from Fire Island to the Port of Anchorage.
		The three Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force vessels are the 470-foot flagship Kashima, the 450-foot Amagiri and the 450-foot Yamagiri.
	www.military.com /features/0,15240,96244,00.html (188 words)

	JDR Military Service - NAF Atsugi, Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Operations Shack at NAF Atsugi, the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force (JMSDF) air base closest to Yokohama and Tokyo.
		Shinmeiwa PS-1 turboprop powered amphibian of the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force photographed at Atsugi in April 1988.
		Maritime patrol aircraft were predominately seaplanes up through the late 1950s.
	web.umr.edu /~rogersda/military_service/atsugi.htm (139 words)

	ZNet \| Activism \| Japan's Indian Ocean Naval Deployment:
		Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force destroyers and refuelling supply ships have been continually on-station in the Indian Ocean since November 2001.
		The stated purpose of the contingent was to provide a Japanese re-fuelling capacity to the multinational forces operating in the Indian Ocean against Afghanistan following the U.S. attack prompted by the 9/11 bombing attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
		The possibility has also been raised that they were used to provide air defense warning for the approaches to the giant US-base on Diego Garcia in the Chagos Archipelago -- a crucial and ongoing staging ground for both the war on Afghanistan and the war on Iraq.
	www.zmag.org /content/print_article.cfm?itemID=9990&sectionID=17 (1827 words)

	John S. McCain conducts bi-lateral exercise with Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force
		The exercise, ASWEX 98-4, was coordinated between the JMSDF and U.S..
		This was John S. McCain's first exercise with the JMSDF since forward deploying to Japan one year ago.
		The sea portion of the exercise began on the morning of July 7th when John S. McCain and JDS (Japanese Defense Ship) Tokiwa conducted a refueling at sea.
	www.c7f.navy.mil /news/7frel197.html (512 words)

	Keen Edge
		During deployment, VINCENNES conducted an Anti-Submarine exercise, PASSEX 94-2, with the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force, the bilateral exercise MERCUB 94-2, a joint U.S. and Singaporean Navy exercise of the Malaysian peninsula, and the bilateral exercise KEEN EDGE, with the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force.
		Keen Edge 96, a Joint/Bilateral Command Post Exercise involving Japan Self Defense Forces and United States military forces, was conducted at U.S. and Japanese military installations throughout Japan from January 25, 1996 to February 2, 1996.
		During the Japan-wide command post exercise Keen Edge 2000, one initiative from the Air Force's Force Protection Battlelab at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, was tested, and lauded by users at Yokota as a giant technological success.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/ops/keen-edge.htm (1209 words)

	DSRV Story.
		This operation was a joint exercise performed by the U.S. Pacific Submarine Force and the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force.
		In this effort, the navies joined forces to test the compatibility of employing a mini submarine to rescue Sailors from another country’s vessel.
		The submarine force will continue to shrink from as many as 40 submarines in the early 1990's to only 25 early in the next decade.
	www.csp.navy.mil /news/dsrv.htm (1892 words)

	Survival instinct
		Timothy Haws of the ITD at Coast Guard Training Center Yorktown teaches the boarding officer course to members of the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force during Fall 2000.
		In Jordan, a maritime safety and environmental security seminar is being presented.
		In other countries, maritime forces may be police and customs agencies with coast guard missions.
	www.uscg.mil /hq/g-cp/cb/Feb2001/FarAway.html (852 words)

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		The Mk 45 Mod 4 5-inch, 62 caliber gun mount is the only gun that can fire the new munitions under development by the U.S. Navy, and as such it is intended to provide enhanced anti-surface, anti-air, and fire support capabilities to the world's navies.
		United Defense anticipates that there will be additional orders for Mk 45 Mod 4 gun mounts for future Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force ships.
		United Defense is a leader in the design, development and production of combat vehicles, artillery, naval guns, missile launchers and precision munitions used by the U.S. Department of Defense and allies worldwide, and is America's largest non-nuclear ship repair, modernization and conversion company.
	www.uniteddefense.com /pr/pr_20030414.htm (472 words)

	Pacific Reach Images
		Pacific Reach is the first multination submarine rescue exercise held in the Pacific region and includes 600 participants, four submarines, four surface support ships and other submarine rescue systems from the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force, the Republic of Korea Navy, the U.S. Navy and the Republic of Singapore Navy.
		The SRC completed a successful dive and docking on the Japanese submarine to practice the evolution in the event there was ever a need for a real rescue operation.
		Also taking part in the first multinational submarine rescue exercise in the Pacific region is the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force, the Republic of Korea Navy and the Republic of Singapore Navy.
	www.csp.navy.mil /pacreach/image1.htm (1840 words)

	ESG 1 Conducts ASW Exercise with Japanese Destroyers
		The purpose of the exercise was for ESG 1 to exercise ASW planning and prosecution at the strike group level, including the coordination of allied Navy assets.
		The Japanese destroyers, who are on a three-month deployment taking them from homeports in Japan to San Diego and back, also were pleased with the results of the exercise, which they called Exercise Pacific Rainbow.
		In addition to the operational training benefits of the exercise, the ability to foster the strong alliance between the American and Japanese also presented itself during a special reception two days prior to the exercise.
	www.military.com /NewsContent/0,13319,usn1_072905,00.00.html (783 words)

	USS Vincennes (CG 49)
		She also operated jointly with the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force and the Royal Australian Navy.
		The training exercises the units' skill in surface, air defense and undersea warfare required to jointly defend Japan against external aggression.
		The third Vincennes (CL 64) was commissioned in January 1944 and fought brilliantly throughout the Pacific in Battles of Guam, the Philippines, Okinawa, and Formosa.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/navy/cg-49.htm (1749 words)

	AllRefer.com - Japan - The Maritime Self-Defense Force \| Japanese Information Resource
		The Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) had an authorized strength in 1992 of 46,000 and maintained some 44,400 personnel and operated 155 major combatants, including thirteen submarines, sixty-four destroyers and frigates, forty-three mine warfare ships and boats, eleven patrol craft, and six amphibious ships.
		Training days are scheduled around slack fishing seasons in winter and summer--providing about ten days during the year.
		The naval force's capacity to perform its defense missions varies according to the task.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/japan/japan282.html (722 words)

	Long Beach
		The second Long Beach (PF‑34) was laid down 19 March 1943 as PG‑142, for the Maritime Commission, by Consolidated Steel Corp., Wilmington, Calif. Reclassified PF‑34 on 15 April 1943, she was launched 5 May 1943; sponsored by Mrs.
		She sailed for the Schoutens 6 August for patrol and shore bombardment duty during cleanup operations against Japanese holdouts in the Biak area, returning to local operations off New Guinea 31 August.
		Returned to the United States at Yokosuka, Japan, she lay idle until loaned to Japan for service in the Japanese Maritime Self‑Defense Force in November 1953 as Shii (PF‑17).
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/l8/long_beach-ii.htm (361 words)

	Lockheed Martin Awarded $124 Million Contract for Japanese Sea-Based Missile Defense Capability
		The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and the U.S. Navy are jointly developing Aegis BMD as part of the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS).
		The Aegis Weapon System is the world's premier naval surface defense system and is the basis for Aegis BMD, the primary component of the sea-based element of the United States' Ballistic Missile Defense System.
		Lockheed Martin is a global leader in missile defense solutions and technologies designed to defend against attacks by ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, aircraft and other airborne threats.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/07-15-2005/0004068311&EDATE= (561 words)

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