Japan's largest 'helicopter carrier' commissioned amid concerns

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Women personnel board the Hyuga, the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force's largest helicopter-carrying destroyer, in a ceremony for the vessel to be commissioned at a shipyard in Yokohama March 18. The Hyuga has women officers and sailors on board a destroyer for the first time since the establishment of the Self-Defense Forces in 1954. (Kyodo)

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