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  2. Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force - Wikipedia

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    In 2019, the National Diet of Japan approved the order of 42 STOVL Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II aircraft in addition to 135 F-35A model conventional takeoff and landing fighters for the Japan Air Self-Defense Force to operate from their land bases; the F-35B is same model aircraft that the US Marines operate from US Navy aircraft carriers ...

  3. List of active Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force ships

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    A JMU representative told Jane's 360 that while the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force did not have a current requirement for an LHD-type amphibious assault ship of any kind to join the JMSDF's Self Defense Fleet, the Japan Marine United Corporation still expected the JMSDF to eventually issue such a requirement in the near future, with the JMU ...

  4. Japanese Marines - Wikipedia

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    Imperial Japanese Navy Forces under the aegis of the Imperial Japanese Navy land forces , particularly: Special Naval Landing Forces (SNLF), the professional marines of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN); While the IJN did not explicitly refer to SNLF personnel as "marines," Allied troops generally referred to them as such.

  5. List of marines and similar forces - Wikipedia

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    Many countries around the world maintain marines and naval infantry military units. Even if only a few nations have the capabilities to launch major amphibious assault operations, most marines and naval infantry forces are able to carry out limited amphibious landings, riverine and coastal warfare tasks.

  6. Special Naval Landing Forces - Wikipedia

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    Imperial Japanese Army and Navy Uniforms and Equipment by Tadao Nakata and Thomas B. Nelson; Imperial Japanese Army and Navy Uniforms and Equipments by Lionel Leventhal Limited; United States Army's TM-E 30-480 Handbook On Japanese Military Forces; Zaloga, Steven J. (2007). Japanese Tanks 1939–45. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-8460-3091-8.

  7. The female marines Japan is training for war - AOL

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    Hikari Maruyama, Runa Kurosawa and Sawaka Nakano are part of an elite force: Japan's Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade (ARDB), meant to lead assaults from the sea in a possible future war.

  8. Imperial Japanese Navy land forces - Wikipedia

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    Japanese naval infantry operating a Type 93 13 mm anti-aircraft machine gun. The Imperial Japanese Navy land forces were a variety of land-based units of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) organized for offensive operations, the defense of Japanese naval and shore-based facilities, military policing tasks, construction and engineering, training, and shore-based anti-aircraft roles; both overseas ...

  9. Japan Self-Defense Forces - Wikipedia

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    Japan's first submarine powered by lithium-ion batteries, it was developed by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force used it for the first time in March 2020. [55] The Japanese government approved the first-ever JGSDF dispatch to a peacekeeping operation that was not led by the United Nations.