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[Breaking News]Mountain fire caused after MSDF training

ETAJIMA, Japan, Jan. 17 Kyodo - Video taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a mountain fire near a Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force shooting range in Etajima in the western Japan prefecture of Hiroshima on Jan. 17, 2025. A fire occurred at the shooting range earlier in the day as MSDF personnel conducted underwater mine-disposing training using an explosive, spreading to the mountain side. (Kyodo)

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Mountain fire caused after MSDF training

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a mountain fire near a Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force shooting range in Etajima in the western Japan prefecture of Hiroshima on Jan. 17, 2025. A fire occurred at the shooting range earlier in the day as MSDF personnel conducted underwater mine-disposing training using an explosive, spreading to the mountain side.

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Mountain fire caused after MSDF training

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a mountain fire near a Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force shooting range (bottom) in Etajima in the western Japan prefecture of Hiroshima on Jan. 17, 2025. A fire occurred at the shooting range earlier in the day as MSDF personnel conducted underwater mine-disposing training using an explosive, spreading to the mountain side.

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Mountain fire caused after MSDF training

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a mountain fire near a Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force shooting range (lower R) in Etajima in the western Japan prefecture of Hiroshima on Jan. 17, 2025. A fire occurred at the shooting range earlier in the day as MSDF personnel conducted underwater mine-disposing training using an explosive, spreading to the mountain side.

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MSDF's training vessel Kashima in London

Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force training ship Kashima passes London's Tower Bridge over the River Thames on Sept. 5, 2024.

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MSDF's training vessel Kashima in London

Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force training ship Kashima passes London's Tower Bridge over the River Thames on Sept. 5, 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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Japan's MSDF conducts Tomahawk training ahead of delivery

Photo taken on March 28, 2024, shows a launch pad for land-based Tomahawk cruise missiles on the U.S. Navy's McCampbell destroyer anchored at its naval base in Yokosuka near Tokyo. Training by Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force personnel aboard the U.S. destroyer is shown to the media the same day, with Japan planning to buy 400 land-based Tomahawk cruise missiles from the United States for their deployment on the MSDF Aegis destroyers in fiscal 2025.

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Japan's MSDF conducts Tomahawk training ahead of delivery

Photo taken on March 28, 2024, shows a launch pad for land-based Tomahawk cruise missiles on the U.S. Navy's McCampbell destroyer anchored at its naval base in Yokosuka near Tokyo. Training by Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force personnel aboard the U.S. destroyer is shown to the media the same day, with Japan planning to buy 400 land-based Tomahawk cruise missiles from the United States for their deployment on the MSDF Aegis destroyers in fiscal 2025.

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Japan's MSDF conducts Tomahawk training ahead of delivery

U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel meets the press at the U.S. Navy's Yokosuka base near Tokyo on March 28, 2024, after training by Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force personnel aboard the U.S. Navy's McCampbell destroyer is shown to the media, with Japan planning to buy 400 land-based Tomahawk cruise missiles from the United States for their deployment on the MSDF Aegis destroyers in fiscal 2025.

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Japan's MSDF conducts Tomahawk training ahead of delivery

Training by Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force personnel aboard the U.S. Navy's McCampbell destroyer is shown to the media at the U.S. naval base in Yokosuka near Tokyo on March 28, 2024, as Japan plans to buy 400 land-based Tomahawk cruise missiles from the United States for their deployment on the MSDF Aegis destroyers in fiscal 2025.

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Japan's MSDF conducts Tomahawk training ahead of delivery

Training by Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force personnel aboard the U.S. Navy's McCampbell destroyer is shown to the media at the U.S. naval base in Yokosuka near Tokyo on March 28, 2024, as Japan plans to buy 400 land-based Tomahawk cruise missiles from the United States for their deployment on the MSDF Aegis destroyers in fiscal 2025.

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Japan MSDF vessels in Cambodia

The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Suzunami (front) and the training vessel Shimakaze make a port call in Sihanoukville, Cambodia, on Feb. 22, 2024.

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MSDF repatriate remains of Japanese war dead from Pacific

TOKYO, Japan - The Maritime Self-Defense Force hands over the remains of 137 Japanese war dead repatriated from the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific to officials from the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare upon the MSDF training vessel Kashima's arrival at Harumi Pier in Tokyo on Oct. 24, 2014. It was the first time an MSDF vessel has transported the remains of Japanese war dead.

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MSDF recovers remains of Japan war dead from Pacific isles

TOKYO, Japan - Maritime Self-Defense Force personnel carry boxes wrapped in white cloth, containing the remains of 137 Japanese war dead retrieved on the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific, upon arrival on an MSDF training vessel in Tokyo on Oct. 24, 2014. It was the first time ever an MSDF vessel has been involved in transporting the remains of Japanese war dead.

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Japan maritime force vessels

YANGON, Myanmar - Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force training vessels on a round-the-world voyage arrive at Thilawa port, about 25 kilometers south of Yangon, in Myanmar on Sept. 30, 2013, for a five-day mission, marking the first-ever port call by an MSDF vessel to the country.

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Live-fire drill for defending remote isles

GOTEMBA, Japan - Japan's Ground, Maritime and Air Self-Defense Forces conduct Aug. 26, 2012, a major annual artillery live-fire drill in Shizuoka Prefecture. The GSDF's fire power exercise at the East Fuji training area, which was open to the public for viewing, mobilized troops from the MSDF and ASDF working together in an integrated operation that for the first time featured a scenario -- driving out enemy troops from a remote island that has come under attack.

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Live-fire drill for defending remote isles

GOTEMBA, Japan - Japan's Ground, Maritime and Air Self-Defense Forces conduct Aug. 26, 2012, a major annual artillery live-fire drill in Shizuoka Prefecture. The GSDF's fire power exercise at the East Fuji training area, which was open to the public for viewing, mobilized troops from the MSDF and ASDF working together in an integrated operation that for the first time featured a scenario -- driving out enemy troops from a remote island that has come under attack.

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Live-fire drill for defending remote isles

GOTEMBA, Japan - Japan's Ground, Maritime and Air Self-Defense Forces conduct Aug. 26, 2012, a major annual artillery live-fire drill in Shizuoka Prefecture. The GSDF's fire power exercise at the East Fuji training area, which was open to the public for viewing, mobilized troops from the MSDF and ASDF working together in an integrated operation that for the first time featured a scenario -- driving out enemy troops from a remote island that has come under attack.

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Live-fire drill for defending remote isles

GOTEMBA, Japan - Japan's Ground, Maritime and Air Self-Defense Forces conduct Aug. 26, 2012, a major annual artillery live-fire drill in Shizuoka Prefecture. The GSDF's fire power exercise at the East Fuji training area, which was open to the public for viewing, mobilized troops from the MSDF and ASDF working together in an integrated operation that for the first time featured a scenario -- driving out enemy troops from a remote island that has come under attack.

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MSDF training fleet returns to Japan

TOKYO, Japan - A Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force fleet -- the training ships Kashima (L) and Yamagiri, as well as the destroyer Sawayuki (R) -- returns to Tokyo on Oct. 28, 2010, wrapping up a five-month around-the-world training voyage. The fleet visited 11 countries but canceled a port call to Qingdao, China, as bilateral ties were strained due to a territorial dispute in the East China Sea.

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Defense minister speaks about report on death of MSDF member

TOKYO, Japan - Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada answers questions by reporters at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on Oct. 22 as the ministry issued an interim report on the death of a Maritime Self-Defense Force member last month in a group combat ''training'' rite.

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Japanese MSDF vessels arrive in Cambodian port

SIHANOUKVILLE, Cambodia - Members of the Cambodian Navy greet the arrival of three Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force vessels the southwestern port of Sihanoukville, the last destination in the training squadron's 155-day cruise around the world, on Sept. 6. The vessels Kashima, Murasame and Yugiri carry about 750 officers and crew, including approximately 180 newly commissioned officers.

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Classified e-warfare manual missing from MSDF ship

TOKYO, Japan - A classified electronic warfare manual is missing from the training ship Aokumo (shown in the photo taken in November 1989) of the Maritime Self-Defense Force at a naval base in Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture, Defense Agency officials said Sept. 5.

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U.S. Navy abandons search for last Ehime Maru victim

HONOLULU, United States - The Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) submarine salvage ship Chihaya sails off Honolulu International Airport on Nov. 7, 2001. About 30 divers from the ship will conduct a final inspection of the Japanese fisheries training ship Ehime Maru. U.S. Navy divers have abandoned hopes of finding the remains of the ninth and final victim aboard the Ehime Maru.

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Japanese MSDF divers in Ehime Maru salvage meet press

HONOLULU, United States - Two Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) divers are helped by their fellows onto a staging lift before they are lowered into water in a demonstration for the media at the U.S. naval base in Honolulu, Hawaii, on Sept. 4. The divers are attached to the submarine rescue ship Chihaya that will assist the U.S. Navy in salvaging the Japanese fisheries training vessel Ehime Maru.

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Divers to recover Ehime Maru's missing crew members

HONOLULU, United States - The U.S. Navy makes public to reporters their divers' training at the naval base in Oahu Island in Hawaii on Aug. 15. Sixty-six U.S. Navy divers, as well as 30 Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) divers, will participate in recovering the bodies of crew members who went down with Japanese fisheries training vessel the Ehime Maru after it collided with a U.S. submarine in February. They will continue their training until Aug. 17.

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Japanese sub rescue ship heads for Hawaii

KURE, Japan - The submarine rescue ship Chihaya leaves the Maritime Self-Defense Force base in Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture, for Hawaii on Aug. 10 to take part in salvaging the Japanese fisheries training ship Ehime Maru, which sank in waters off Hawaii in February after colliding with a surfacing U.S. submarine. The ship carries 130 MSDF personnel.

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Japan MSDF vessel

Photo taken by a Kyodo News reporter on board a Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force helicopter shows the MSDF training vessel Shimakaze taking part in an international fleet review in Sagami Bay off Kanagawa Prefecture near Tokyo on Nov. 6, 2022.

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Search continues for missing fighter jet crew in Sea of Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News plane on Feb. 1, 2022, shows a Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer searching for an Air Self-Defense Force F-15 fighter jet that disappeared from radar the previous day over the Sea of Japan after taking off for training with two crew from its base in Komatsu, Ishikawa Prefecture. An MSDF helicopter can be seen in the foreground.

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Search continues for missing fighter jet crew in Sea of Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News plane on Feb. 1, 2022, shows a Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer searching for an Air Self-Defense Force F-15 fighter jet that disappeared from radar the previous day over the Sea of Japan after taking off for training with two crew from its base in Komatsu, Ishikawa Prefecture. An MSDF helicopter can be seen in the foreground.

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Classified e-warfare manual missing from MSDF ship

TOKYO, Japan - A classified electronic warfare manual is missing from the training ship Aokumo (shown in the photo taken in November 1989) of the Maritime Self-Defense Force at a naval base in Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture, Defense Agency officials said Sept. 5. (Kyodo)

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U.S. Navy abandons search for last Ehime Maru victim

HONOLULU, United States - The Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) submarine salvage ship Chihaya sails off Honolulu International Airport on Nov. 7, 2001. About 30 divers from the ship will conduct a final inspection of the Japanese fisheries training ship Ehime Maru. U.S. Navy divers have abandoned hopes of finding the remains of the ninth and final victim aboard the Ehime Maru.

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Divers to recover Ehime Maru's missing crew members

HONOLULU, United States - The U.S. Navy makes public to reporters their divers' training at the naval base in Oahu Island in Hawaii on Aug. 15. Sixty-six U.S. Navy divers, as well as 30 Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) divers, will participate in recovering the bodies of crew members who went down with Japanese fisheries training vessel the Ehime Maru after it collided with a U.S. submarine in February. They will continue their training until Aug. 17.

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Japan, Philippines agree on lease of MSDF training aircraft

Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani meets with reporters at the ministry in Tokyo on May 2, 2016, following telephone talks with Philippine Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin. They agreed on the leasing of Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force TC-90 training aircraft to the Philippines amid China's growing assertiveness in the South China Sea. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan defense vessels make port call in Philippines

The Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force training submarine Oyashio and guided-missile destroyer Ariake (R in back) make a port call at Subic Bay on the Philippines' main island of Luzon on April 3, 2016. The Oyashio and Ariake as well as a third MSDF vessel left Japan last month on a voyage aimed at training officers and fostering goodwill with the Philippines. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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MSDF P-3C lands at Philippine airport

A P-3C patrol aircraft of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force lands at an airport in Puerto Princesa on the Philippine island of Palawan on June 23, 2015, with the U.S. Navy's P-3C seen in the foreground. The MSDF and the Philippine military conducted their first-ever joint training off the island near the disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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MSDF ships make port call at Da Nang port, Vietnam

Members of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force and the Vietnamese Navy pose before the MSDF destroyer Kirisame at Da Nang port, Vietnam, on April 16, 2015. The crew of the MSDF destroyers Kirisame and Asayuki, arriving at the port the same day, will take part in training with the Vietnamese Navy and exchange events during the ships' port call through April 19. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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MSDF recovers remains of Japan war dead from Pacific isles

TOKYO, Japan - Maritime Self-Defense Force personnel carry boxes wrapped in white cloth, containing the remains of 137 Japanese war dead retrieved on the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific, upon arrival on an MSDF training vessel in Tokyo on Oct. 24, 2014. It was the first time ever an MSDF vessel has been involved in transporting the remains of Japanese war dead. (Kyodo)

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MSDF training fleet returns to Japan

TOKYO, Japan - A Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force fleet -- the training ships Kashima (L) and Yamagiri, as well as the destroyer Sawayuki (R) -- returns to Tokyo on Oct. 28, 2010, wrapping up a five-month around-the-world training voyage. The fleet visited 11 countries but canceled a port call to Qingdao, China, as bilateral ties were strained due to a territorial dispute in the East China Sea. (Kyodo)

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Japan Foreign Minister Kono in Brunei

Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono (L) addresses members of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force at Muara port in Brunei on Feb. 11, 2018. The MSDF crew visited the Southeast Asian country as part of a training voyage. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese MSDF divers in Ehime Maru salvage meet press

HONOLULU, United States - Two Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) divers are helped by their fellows onto a staging lift before they are lowered into water in a demonstration for the media at the U.S. naval base in Honolulu, Hawaii, on Sept. 4. The divers are attached to the submarine rescue ship Chihaya that will assist the U.S. Navy in salvaging the Japanese fisheries training vessel Ehime Maru.

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Japanese sub rescue ship heads for Hawaii

KURE, Japan - The submarine rescue ship Chihaya leaves the Maritime Self-Defense Force base in Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture, for Hawaii on Aug. 10 to take part in salvaging the Japanese fisheries training ship Ehime Maru, which sank in waters off Hawaii in February after colliding with a surfacing U.S. submarine. The ship carries 130 MSDF personnel.