The Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force (JMSDF) has commissioned the fourth of its Awaji-class mine countermeasures (MCM) vessels in Yokohama City. Built as an improved variant of the three-vessel ...

Yet in the midst of war, Japanese authorities - keen ... to preserve two offshore piers above the mine shaft that extends more than 1km into the sea, and to collect documents and testimonies ...

Japan sent 10 Maritime Self-Defense Force personnel to a multinational mine-sweeping exercise in the Black Sea in September 2024 as part of its cooperation with Ukraine, Defense Minister Gen Nakatani ...