The JMSDF is a large fleet, largely consisting of destroyers, and has significant blue-water operating capabilities.
The JMSDF has an official strength of 46,000 personnel (currently around 45,800 personnel), operating 119 major warships, including twenty submarines, fifty-three destroyers and frigates, twenty-nine mine warfare ships, nine patrol craft and nine amphibious ships (total displacement of approx. 432,000 tons)[
Hiroaki Abe
Bakuryou-chou taru kaishou Nato Code OF-9
tenno heika banzai
Subject: Kaijō Jieitai or JMSDF 
Tue Oct 14, 2008 9:29 pm
