MSDF, coast guard conduct joint antipiracy exercise in Hiroshima

MSDF, coast guard conduct joint antipiracy exercise in Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Maritime Self-Defense Force personnel transport ''pirates'' (in gray clothes) in a drill off Hiroshima Prefecture on Feb. 20. Japan's MSDF and the Japan Coast Guard started a joint antipiracy exercise the same day at the MSDF's Kure base in the prefecture to prepare for a mission off Somalia to protect Japan-linked ships from pirates.

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