This is a continuing post in a series of what people with no life what-so-ever do on vacation to try and feed on past glory. If you're on Oahu and the weather sucks, what else can you do but look up old friends and screw around with them? In this entry, you will see that the JMSDF is in port for RimPac, affording me the opportunity to slink around the Japanese Armada. (I'm not in Hawaii now -- this series of photos that you'll see over the next two days are from a couple of years of vacations)
The JMSDF
Atago (DDG 177) (
Atago class destroyer) is an upgraded version of their
Kongo class destroyers. The
Kongo class is roughly comparable to the US
Arleigh Burke class (Flight 1)
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| JMSDF 177 Atago |
I took a little heat for calling
Atago a "Nip Ship" -- being tagged as using politically incorrect language.
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| Rising Sun |
My father never returned to Hawaii or the Pacific after World War 2. I'm sure that he would have chafed at the thought of a Japanese flag or a Japanese ship in Pearl Harbor--- but times change and the Japanese are faithful allies.
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JMSDF Akebono DD 108 (right) (akebono means "daybreak")
JMSDF Atago (DDG 177 (left) (atago means "success") |
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| SH-60 on Atago |
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| Wardroom keepsake |
