MSDF ship returns home after Indian Ocean antiterrorism mission

MSDF ship returns home after Indian Ocean antiterrorism mission

SASEBO, Japan - A Maritime Self-Defense Force personnel (R) is reunited with his family on a pier at the MSDF base in Sasebo Port in Nagasaki Prefecture on Aug. 26 upon returning to the port aboard the 8,150-ton Hamana after having ended a mission to refuel vessels undertaking U.S.-led antiterrorism operations in the Indian Ocean. (Kyodo)

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