Activities in the Indian Ocean and elsewhere(JMSDF[Japan Navy])

In view of the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001, the Japanese government enacted the Anti-Terrorism Special Measures Law to provide all the assistance and cooperation possible with in Constitutional limits.

In accordance with the law, the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force has been conducting cooperation and support activities since November 2001. The activities have primarily involved supplying fuel to the U.S. naval vessels and other nations’ vessels participating in maritime interdiction operations in the Indian Ocean. These activities continue to the present day.

It is worth noting that the U.S. naval vessels to which we have supplied fuel in the Indian Ocean have achievedsignificant success with their maritime interdiction operations in the Persian Gulf and other locations. To cite just one example, since December 2003
these ships have confiscated more than nine tons of narcotics from suspicious vessels and discovered large quantities of small arms and portable anti-tank rockets.

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