Japan’s Indian Ocean Deployment

Milestone for deeper naval cooperation

By: Andy Wong Ming Jun

Hello Samidare

In the last week of July and first week of August, the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force deployed its destroyer JS Samidare into the Indian Ocean, marking two milestones. The first was the Aegis missile-equipped destroyer’s five-day berthing at the Colombo Shipyard in Sri Lanka, described as the first time a Japane…