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    The Kure Naval Base (Japanese: 呉基地, Hepburn: Kure Kichi), also simply known as the JMSDF Kure Naval Base, is a group of ports and land facilities of the...
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  • The Sasebo Naval Base (Japanese: 佐世保基地, Hepburn: Sasebo Kichi), also simply known as the JMSDF Sasebo Naval Base, is a group of ports and land facilities...
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    the Training Squadron of the JMSDF Regional Kure District. July 1, 1889 — Kure Naval District established. 1895 — Kure naval shipyard established, initially...
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    Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF), the Fleet Air Force (Japanese: 航空集団, romanized: kōkū shūdan) is its naval aviation branch, responsible for both...
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    abbreviated JMSDF (海自, Kaiji), also simply known as the Japanese Navy, is the maritime warfare branch of the Japan Self-Defense Forces, tasked with the naval defense...
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    Etajima base (JMSDF Etajima Naval Base) in Etajima city, Hiroshima prefecture is in the Etajima-cho government building and is the base of the Japan Maritime...
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    TCG Kınalıada (category Ships built at Istanbul Naval Shipyard)
    by the Tuzla (Istanbul) Naval Shipyard as a part of the MILGEM project, she was laid down on October 8, 2015. Istanbul Naval Shipyard Command started...
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  • List of destroyers of Japan (category Japanese naval-related lists)
    1st class (steam) torpedo boats of Japan grouped by class or design. In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast and maneuverable yet long-endurance warship...
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    Air Base in Miyazaki Prefecture, Kyushu will host the F-35Bs. The base is located near the Southwest Islands, including Okinawa, and JMSDF's Kure Base in...
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    fighter jets. These are museums about the JSDF. JMSDF Kure Museum – about the JMSDF and includes the retired JMSDF Yūshio-class submarine Akishio (SS-579). JGSDF...
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    Force (JMSDF). The official classification of these ships is DDH (helicopter-carrying destroyer), which is accepted by the United States Naval Institute;...
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  • Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) called the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF). In 2015, the JMSDF was ranked by Credit Suisse as the fourth most powerful military...
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  • Imperial Japanese Navy bases and facilities (category Naval installations)
    Atsugi Naval Air Base - now Naval Air Facility Atsugi operated by the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) and the US Navy Kure Naval Base - now a...
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    Fleet Escort Force (category Naval history of Japan)
    Japan's maritime defense. On September 4, 2024, it is reported that the JMSDF will abolish the FEF with the MWF and replace it with the Fleet Surface...
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    Yokosuka Naval Base, now JMSDF Yokosuka Naval Base Sasebo Naval Base, was Sasebo Naval Arsenal now United States Fleet Activities Sasebo Naval Base Tateyama...
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    Imperial Japanese Navy (category Naval history of Japan)
    Japan's surrender in World War II. The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) was formed between 1952 and 1954 after the dissolution of the IJN. The...
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    Guard is not allowed to use force against foreign governments or naval vessels and the JMSDF is likewise constrained in its operations in support of the Japan...
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    August 2019 – via Facebook. "Submarine Activities: Threats to Submarines". JMSDF Kure Museum. Archived from the original on 12 August 2019. Retrieved 12 August...
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    Japanese submarines since World War II were named after ocean currents. The JMSDF changed its naming convention with the Sōryū, and submarines will now be...
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    It was incorporated into the 1st Submarine Flotilla and deployed at Kure Naval Base. Ōryū bears the distinction of being the first submarine launched with...
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    Nōmi (のうみ) is a minesweeper of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF), and the fourth ship of the Awaji class. She is named after Nomi Island of...
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    Range, Kure, Hiroshima Nagai Dependent Housing Area (Admiralty Heights), Yokosuka, Kanagawa Nagiridani Dependent Housing Area, Sasebo, Nagasaki Naval Air...
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    Kunisaki at Yokosuka on 20 March 2011. JS Ise at Kure Naval Base on 29 October 2011. JS Ise in Kure on 20 August 2014. JS Ise alongside JS Kirishima on...
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    the first to use a new high-power diesel engine and is deployed at the Kure base.]. Yahoo Japan News (in Japanese). Retrieved 8 March 2025. Wikimedia Commons...
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    Special Boarding Unit (category Naval special forces units and formations)
    would be responsible for making arrests. In 2012, restrictions for female JMSDF personnel to join the SBU were lifted. The SBU was deployed in 2016 at the...
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    Hanshin Base Corps, is one of the base corps under the Kure District Force of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force. The place was renamed from Osaka Base Corps...
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    Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF). It was the second class of first-generation general-purpose destroyers of the JMSDF. The JMSDF started construction of...
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  • Shimizugaoka High School in Kure, Hiroshima due to her father's transferring from JMSDF Kanoya Air Base to JMSDF Kure Naval Base while in the Japan Maritime...
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    Self-Defense Force (JMSDF). This is the first class of the second-generation, general-purpose destroyers of the JMSDF. Since fiscal year 1977, the JMSDF started construction...
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    Japanese battleship Mutsu (category Ships built by Yokosuka Naval Arsenal)
    1991. The rudder, an anchor and one propeller have been relocated to the JMSDF Kure Museum, directly across the street from the Yamato Museum. The left-side...
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