Japan destroyers leave for antipiracy mission off Somalia

KURE, Japan - Relatives see off family members standing in line on the deck of the Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Sazanami at the MSDF base in Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture, on March 14. The Sazanami and the destroyer Samidare left the base for an antipiracy mission off Somalia.

Sample
PDF Preview

Product Code
ILEA001132564

Registered date
2009/3/14 00:00:00

Credit
Kyodo / Kyodo News Images

Media source
2009 Kyodo News

Media size
2688 × 1889 pixel

Resolution
240 dpi

Deployment size
957.78(KB)*

Special instruction

*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.

Similar Images & Videos

Blue Impulse aerobatic team flies over ASDF base in northeastern Japan

The Japan Air Self-Defense Force's Blue Impulse aerobatic team flies during an aviation festival at the ASDF base in Higashimatsushima in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Aug. 25, 2024.

Maritime Self-Defense Force fleet review

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda speaks during a fleet review of the Maritime Self-Defense Force aboard the escort ship Kurama in Sagami Bay off Kanagawa Prefecture on Oct. 14, 2012. Japanese Defense Minister Satoshi Morimoto is standing nearby (3rd from L).

Maritime Self-Defense Force fleet review

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows Maritime Self-Defense Force vessels parading during a fleet review in Sagami Bay off Kanagawa Prefecture on Oct. 14, 2012.

Maritime Self-Defense Force fleet review

TOKYO, Japan - Maritime Self-Defense Force vessels parade during a fleet review in Sagami Bay off Kanagawa Prefecture on Oct. 14, 2012.

Maritime Self-Defense Force fleet review

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda reviews a parade of Maritime Self-Defense Force vessels from aboard the escort ship Kurama in Sagami Bay off Kanagawa Prefecture on Oct. 14, 2012.

Noda expresses intention to send SDF unit to S. Sudan

OMITAMA, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (front L) and Defense Minister Yasuo Ichikawa (2nd from L) attend an inspection ceremony at the Air Self-Defense Force's Hyakuri base in Omitama, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Oct. 16, 2011. Noda indicated at the ceremony that his government will send a Ground Self-Defense Force engineering unit to South Sudan in early 2012 to join U.N. peacekeeping operations.

SDF sailors acquitted over fatal destroyer collision

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Mitsuo Kichisei, a younger brother of a fisherman who died in a maritime collision, weeps at a press conference in Yokohama on May 11, 2011. The Yokohama District Court in Kanagawa Prefecture on the same day acquitted two Maritime Self-Defense Force members of charges including professional negligence resulting in death over the 2008 collision between an MSDF destroyer and a fishing boat off Chiba Prefecture that killed two fishermen.

SDF sailors acquitted over fatal destroyer collision

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in February 2008 shows the fishing boat Seitoku Maru (front) after it collided with the Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Atago (back), with a Japan Coast Guard patrol boat in between the two vessels, in the Pacific Ocean off Chiba Prefecture. Two MSDF officers were acquitted by the Yokohama District Court on May 11, 2011, over the collision that killed two fishermen.

Children lost in tsunami

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Members of the Self-Defense Forces observe a moment of silence in front of Okawa Elementary School, of which 74 out of 108 students are dead or missing since the March 11 tsunami, in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 21, 2011. Okawa reopened for a new school year the same day in a rented space in a nearby elementary school, as its facility has been damaged by the disaster.

Search efforts in tsunami-hit Rikuzentakata

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - A Ground Self-Defense Force member cleans up debris from buildings destroyed by the March 11, 2011, quake and tsunami in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on April 18.