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Japan defense chief at MSDF's Yokosuka base

Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani (C) meets the press at the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force's base in Yokosuka, near Tokyo, on Nov. 7, 2024.

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Japan defense chief at MSDF's Yokosuka base

Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani (front, L) visits the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force's destroyer Mogami at the MSDF's base in Yokosuka, near Tokyo, on Nov. 7, 2024.

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MSDF ship sails through Taiwan Strait for 1st time

Gen. Yoshihide Yoshida, chief of the Japan Self-Defense Forces Joint Staff, holds a press conference at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 26, 2024, a day after a Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer sailed through the Taiwan Strait for the first time at Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's direction.

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MSDF ship sails through Taiwan Strait for 1st time

Gen. Yoshihide Yoshida, chief of the Japan Self-Defense Forces Joint Staff, holds a press conference at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 26, 2024, a day after a Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer sailed through the Taiwan Strait for the first time at Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's direction.

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MSDF ship sails through Taiwan Strait for 1st time

Gen. Yoshihide Yoshida, chief of the Japan Self-Defense Forces Joint Staff, holds a press conference at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 26, 2024, a day after a Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer sailed through the Taiwan Strait for the first time at Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's direction.

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MSDF ship sails through Taiwan Strait for 1st time

Gen. Yoshihide Yoshida, chief of the Japan Self-Defense Forces Joint Staff, holds a press conference at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 26, 2024, a day after a Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer sailed through the Taiwan Strait for the first time at Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's direction.

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[Breaking News]New Japan MSDF chief of staff Saito

TOKYO, Japan, July 23 Kyodo -New Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force chief of staff Adm. Akira Saito holds a press conference at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on July 23, 2024.

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New Japan MSDF chief of staff Saito

New Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force chief of staff Adm. Akira Saito holds a press conference at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on July 23, 2024.

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New Japan MSDF chief of staff Saito

New Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force chief of staff Adm. Akira Saito holds a press conference at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on July 23, 2024.

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New Japan MSDF chief of staff Saito

New Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force chief of staff Adm. Akira Saito holds a press conference at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on July 23, 2024.

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New Japan MSDF chief of staff Saito

New Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force chief of staff Adm. Akira Saito (front C) attends his inauguration ceremony at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on July 19, 2024.

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New Japan MSDF chief of staff Saito

New Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force chief of staff Adm. Akira Saito (front C) attends his inauguration ceremony at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on July 19, 2024.

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New Japan MSDF chief of staff Saito

New Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force chief of staff Adm. Akira Saito (front C) attends his inauguration ceremony at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on July 19, 2024.

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New Japan MSDF chief of staff Saito

New Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force chief of staff Adm. Akira Saito (front) attends his inauguration ceremony at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on July 19, 2024.

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New Japan MSDF chief of staff Saito

New Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force chief of staff Adm. Akira Saito (R) shakes hands with his predecessor Ryo Sakai following his inauguration ceremony at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on July 19, 2024.

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MSDF chief on scandal involving members

TOKYO, Japan, July 9 Kyodo - Adm. Ryo Sakai, chief of staff of Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, holds a press conference in Tokyo on July 9, 2024, after MSDF members were suspected of fraudulently receiving allowances for diving training and duty. (Kyodo)

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MSDF chief on scandal involving members

Adm. Ryo Sakai, chief of staff of Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, holds a press conference in Tokyo on July 9, 2024, after MSDF members were suspected of fraudulently receiving allowances for diving training and duty.

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MSDF chief on scandal involving members

Adm. Ryo Sakai, chief of staff of Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, holds a press conference in Tokyo on July 9, 2024, after MSDF members were suspected of fraudulently receiving allowances for diving training and duty.

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MSDF chief on scandal involving members

Adm. Ryo Sakai, chief of staff of Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, holds a press conference in Tokyo on July 9, 2024, after MSDF members were suspected of fraudulently receiving allowances for diving training and duty.

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MSDF chief on scandal involving members

Adm. Ryo Sakai, chief of staff of Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force, holds a press conference in Tokyo on July 9, 2024, after MSDF members were suspected of fraudulently receiving allowances for diving training and duty.

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MSDF chief of staff Sakai

Adm. Ryo Sakai, chief of staff of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, holds a press conference in Tokyo on June 11, 2024, after the Defense Ministry declared dead seven crewmen listed as missing following a collision between two Japanese MSDF patrol helicopters during a night drill in the Pacific Ocean in April.

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2 Japan MSDF choppers crash in Pacific

TOKYO, Japan, April 23 Kyodo - Adm. Ryo Sakai, chief of staff of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, holds a press conference at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on April 23, 2024, after two MSDF helicopters crashed during a drill in the Pacific on April 20. (Kyodo)

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2 Japan MSDF choppers crash in Pacific

Adm. Ryo Sakai, chief of staff of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, holds a press conference at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on April 23, 2024, after two MSDF helicopters crashed during a drill in the Pacific on April 20.

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2 Japan MSDF choppers crash in Pacific

Adm. Ryo Sakai, chief of staff of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, holds a press conference in Tokyo on April 21, 2024, after two MSDF helicopters crashed during a drill in the Pacific the night before, leaving at least one of the eight crew members dead, with the other seven missing.

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2 Japan MSDF choppers crash in Pacific

Adm. Ryo Sakai, chief of staff of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, holds a press conference in Tokyo on April 21, 2024, after two MSDF helicopters crashed during a drill in the Pacific the night before, leaving at least one of the eight crew members dead, with the other seven missing.

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2 Japan MSDF choppers crash in Pacific

Adm. Ryo Sakai, chief of staff of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, holds a press conference in Tokyo on April 21, 2024, after two MSDF helicopters crashed during a drill in the Pacific the night before, leaving at least one of the eight crew members dead, with the other seven missing.

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Japan sacks MSDF captain over alleged state secret leak

Japan's Defense Ministry on Monday dismissed a Maritime Self-Defense Force captain over the alleged leak of state secrets to someone without security clearance, making it the first case of the secrecy law being enforced since it came into effect in 2014. A Self-Defense Force criminal investigation unit referred the captain, Takashi Inoue, 54, to prosecutors for allegedly giving classified information to a former MSDF admiral who had already retired from the force, according to the ministry. Adm. Ryo Sakai, chief of staff of the MSDF, apologized for the incident at a press conference, saying it could "undermine the public's and other nations' confidence in the MSDF," and vowed to take preventive measures.

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Japan sacks MSDF captain over alleged state secrets leak

Adm. Ryo Sakai, chief of staff of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, meets the press at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on Dec. 26, 2022, following the ministry's dismissal of an MSDF captain over the alleged leak of state secrets to an outsider.

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Japan sacks MSDF captain over alleged state secrets leak

Adm. Ryo Sakai, chief of staff of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, bows at a press conference at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on Dec. 26, 2022, following the ministry's dismissal of an MSDF captain over the alleged leak of state secrets to an outsider.

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Japan sacks MSDF captain over alleged state secrets leak

Adm. Ryo Sakai, chief of staff of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, meets the press at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on Dec. 26, 2022, following the ministry's dismissal of an MSDF captain over the alleged leak of state secrets to an outsider.

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Chinese defense minister visits MSDF Yokosuka base

YOKOSUKA, Japan - China's Defense Minister Cao Gangchuan (L) is officially welcomed by Maritime Self-Defense Force officers during a visit to the MSDF base in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture on Aug. 31. Cao, the first Chinese defense chief to visit Japan since February 1998, is on a five-day trip to Japan through Sept. 2.

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MSDF, 3 western Japan utilities sign alliance

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Kansai Electric Power Co. President Makoto Yagi (L) and Maritime Self-Defense Force Vice Adm. Shinsuke Miki, chief of the MSDF Kure District Headquarters, pose for photos in Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture, on July 9, 2014, after signing an agreement to cooperate in dealing with disasters.

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MSDF, 3 western Japan utilities sign alliance

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Chugoku Electric Power Co. President Tomohide Karita (L) and Maritime Self-Defense Force Vice Adm. Shinsuke Miki, chief of the MSDF Kure District Headquarters, pose for photos in Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture, on July 9, 2014, after signing an agreement to cooperate in dealing with disasters.

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MSDF vessel sinks fishing boat

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga apologizes at a press conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Jan. 15, 2014, over the collision between the Osumi, a transport vessel of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, and a leisure fishing boat in the Seto Inland Sea off Otake, Hiroshima Prefecture that occurred earlier that day. The boat capsized after colliding with the MSDF vessel, leaving two of the four on board the fishing boat in critical condition, the Defense Ministry and the Japan Coast Guard said.

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Pakistan defense chief calls for Japan to continue MSDF mission

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistani Defense Minister Ahmad Mukhtar speaks during an interview with Kyodo News on Jan. 8, 2010, in Islamabad, Pakistan. In the interview, Mukhtar called on the Japanese government to review its decision to terminate the Maritime Self-Defense Force's refueling mission in the Indian Ocean from Jan. 15.

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Japan, China agree to step up bilateral defense exchanges

BEIJING, China - Chinese Defense Minister Liang Guanglie (R) and Adm. Keiji Akahoshi, chief of staff of Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force, shake hands before their talks at China's National Defense Ministry in Beijing on July 14. Akahoshi is the first top MSDF officer to visit China.

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Ishiba sacks MSDF chief, punishes 88 over collision, scandals

TOKYO, Japan - Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on March 21 on the shakeup of the leadership of the Maritime Self-Defense Force. Ishiba effectively sacked MSDF chief Adm. Eiji Yoshikawa and punished 88 people for a series of MSDF-related fiascos since last year as part of his efforts to restore public confidence

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Ishiba to sack MSDF chief over ship collision

TOKYO, Japan - File photo of Eiji Yoshikawa, chief of staff of the Maritime Self-Defense Force. Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba has decided to sack Yoshikawa for his failure to immediately distribute information concerning the collision between an MSDF destroyer and a fishing boat, ministry sources said Feb. 22.

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(2)Upper house panel passes antiterrorism bill

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda (L), Defense Agency Director General Shigeru Ishiba (C) and Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi (R) bow in appreciation as a House of Councillors committee passes a bill for extension of a special law, which will allow continued deployment of Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) vessels in the Indian Ocean until 2005 to help U.S.-led antiterrorism operations.

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MSDF official admits systematic data gathering

TOKYO, Japan - Defense Agency chief Gen Nakatani offers his apology at a Diet panel meeting May 29 over a case in which a senior official at the Maritime Self-Defense Force's Maritime Staff Office has systematically collected data on individuals who requested information from the Defense Agency under the information-disclosure law.

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Defense chief Torashima faces reporters over alleged espionage

TOKYO, Japan - Defense Agency chief Kazuo Torashima looks grim at a Sept. 8 news conference at the Diet in Tokyo where he explained the alleged passing of Japanese defense secrets to Russia by a senior officer in the Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF). The officer is accused of giving secrets to a Russian military attache in Tokyo on about 10 occasions. Torashima said the agency will set up a special team to investigate the case.

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Chinese defense minister visits MSDF Yokosuka base

YOKOSUKA, Japan - China's Defense Minister Cao Gangchuan (L) is officially welcomed by Maritime Self-Defense Force officers during a visit to the MSDF base in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture on Aug. 31. Cao, the first Chinese defense chief to visit Japan since February 1998, is on a five-day trip to Japan through Sept. 2. (Kyodo)

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Ishiba to sack MSDF chief over ship collision

TOKYO, Japan - File photo of Eiji Yoshikawa, chief of staff of the Maritime Self-Defense Force. Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba has decided to sack Yoshikawa for his failure to immediately distribute information concerning the collision between an MSDF destroyer and a fishing boat, ministry sources said Feb. 22. (Kyodo)

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Ishiba sacks MSDF chief, punishes 88 over collision, scandals

TOKYO, Japan - Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on March 21 on the shakeup of the leadership of the Maritime Self-Defense Force. Ishiba effectively sacked MSDF chief Adm. Eiji Yoshikawa and punished 88 people for a series of MSDF-related fiascos since last year as part of his efforts to restore public confidence (Kyodo)

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Japan submarine collides with commercial ship off Shikoku

Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force Chief of Staff Hiroshi Yamamura speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 9, 2021, held after an MSDF submarine collided with a commercial vessel in the Pacific Ocean off the western Japan main island of Shikoku the previous day, leaving three crew members slightly injured and damaging a fin on the starboard side of the submarine.

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Japan submarine collides with commercial ship off Shikoku

Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force Chief of Staff Hiroshi Yamamura speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 9, 2021, held after an MSDF submarine collided with a commercial vessel in the Pacific Ocean off the western Japan main island of Shikoku the previous day, leaving three crew members slightly injured and damaging a fin on the starboard side of the submarine.

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Japan submarine collides with commercial ship off Shikoku

Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force Chief of Staff Hiroshi Yamamura speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 9, 2021, held after an MSDF submarine collided with a commercial vessel in the Pacific Ocean off the western Japan main island of Shikoku the previous day, leaving three crew members slightly injured and damaging a fin on the starboard side of the submarine.

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Japan submarine collides with commercial ship off Shikoku

Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force Chief of Staff Hiroshi Yamamura apologizes during a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 9, 2021, after an MSDF submarine collided with a commercial vessel in the Pacific Ocean off the western Japan main island of Shikoku the previous day, leaving three crew members slightly injured and damaging a fin on the starboard side of the submarine.

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MSDF, 3 western Japan utilities sign alliance

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Chugoku Electric Power Co. President Tomohide Karita (L) and Maritime Self-Defense Force Vice Adm. Shinsuke Miki, chief of the MSDF Kure District Headquarters, pose for photos in Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture, on July 9, 2014, after signing an agreement to cooperate in dealing with disasters. (Kyodo)

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Pakistan defense chief calls for Japan to continue MSDF mission

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistani Defense Minister Ahmad Mukhtar speaks during an interview with Kyodo News on Jan. 8, 2010, in Islamabad, Pakistan. In the interview, Mukhtar called on the Japanese government to review its decision to terminate the Maritime Self-Defense Force's refueling mission in the Indian Ocean from Jan. 15. (Kyodo)