Japanese Navy Ships Visit Homer Alaska!
Japanese navy ships visited Homer, on the way to Anchorage and other distant ports on a 5 month training mission.
The ships formed one squadron with 3 vessels: The JDS Kashima, JDS Asagiri and JDS Mineyuki.
700 crew members and 175 officer cadets were all Aboard as Part of a good-will and training mission to Anchorage, as the official stop of 14 ports in six countries the navy ships were to visit. Cadets aboard are recent graduates.
The Japanese Navy is formally known as the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force
The three ships are older antisubmarine frigate and destroyer type ships that have been converted into training vessels.
The Asagiri carries the name of a famous Japanese Destroyer from World War II. The name means "Morning Fog."
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The Kashuri was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy. The name Kashima comes from a famous Kashima Shinto Shrine in Ibaraki.
The Mineyuki is a fairly modern general purpose destroyer built in the mid-1980s.
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