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Despite its “pacifist” consitution, which the current government wants to swap for a new belligerant model, the Japanese have quite a flotilla of naval weapons.
ABOARD THE CARRIER KITTY HAWK — The United States and Japan began Friday their biggest joint naval exercise of the year, sending a flotilla of warships off Japan’s southern coast for a week of war games.
The maneuvers, called Annualex 18G, feature the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk and its battle group. The group was joined Friday by an array of Japanese warships, from destroyers to submarines, off the southern Japan island of Kyushu.
Some 95 ships and more than 10,000 sailors are to participate in the exercises, which end Nov. 16.