Destroyer joins Japanese mission to protect U.S. Navy ship

Destroyer joins Japanese mission to protect U.S. Navy ship

File photo taken in June 2009 shows the Sazanami, a Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer, in the Gulf of Aden. The Sazanami has joined the Izumo helicopter carrier escorting a U.S. Navy ship in the first-ever protection mission enabled by Japan's new security legislation, government and other sources said on May 3, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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