Defense Efforts and Activities
Major Exercises
Integrated Air and Missile Defense
Government's Efforts to Ensure the Safety of Japan-Related Vessels in the Middle East
Government's Efforts to Ensure the Effective Implementation of UN Security Council Resolutions (Response to Illicit Maritime Activities)
- Monitoring and surveillance activities by partner countries against illicit maritime activities including ship-to-ship transfers
- Suspicion of illegal ship-to-ship transfers of goods by Rye Song Gang 1, North Korean flagged tanker, and Yuk Tung, Dominican-flagged tanker (January 20, 2018)