The commissioning of the JS Natori brings the JMSDF’s strength up to nine of the frigates—with at least three more planned, ...

Mogami was built to push treaty limits, engineered for speed and heavy firepower, then repeatedly punished by design problems and wartime chaos. She entered combat during the Battle of Sunda Strait, ...

Tokyo is rapidly acquiring missile-laden combat frigates to counter China and Russia in the East China Sea and the broader Indo-Pacific theater. MHI launched Nagara, the tenth Mogami-class frigate on ...