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5 unusual facts about Japan Coast Guard


Haijian 75

Through radio, personnel on Haijian 75 ordered nearby JCG ships to leave and collected evidence of JCG ships' presence.

Japan Coast Guard Museum Yokohama

The centrepiece of the museum is a North Korean spy vessel, which was sunk by the Japan Coast Guard in December 2001 following a firefight in the East China Sea near the island of Amami-Ōshima.

Miho-Yonago Airport

The Japan Coast Guard established a base at Miho in 1978 and has operated Bell 212, Bell 412 (1996) and AgustaWestland AW139 (2009) helicopters and Bombardier DHC-8 (2011) fixed-wing aircraft there.

It is controlled by the Japan Air Self-Defense Force and is jointly used by civil aviation, the JASDF and the Japan Coast Guard.

Shōkai Maru-class high-powered tugboat

Policy and Legal Affairs Division-Japan Maritime Safety Agency (JMSA), 30 year History of Japan Maritime Safety Agency, Japan Maritime Safety Agency, May 1979


Marine weather forecasting

These stations observe ocean waves, tide levels, sea surface temperature and ocean current etc. in the Northwestern Pacific basin, as well as the Sea of Japan and the Sea of Okhotsk basin, and provide marine meteorological forecasts resulted from them, in cooperation with the Hydrographic and Oceanographic Department, Japan Coast Guard.

Tokyo Magnitude 8.0

The series features the efforts of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, Japan Coast Guard, Tokyo Fire Department and Tokyo Disaster Medical Assistance Team in assisting recovery efforts after the initial earthquake and its recurring aftershocks.


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UNGERIN

The Japan Coast Guard deployed the PLH22 YASHIMA 5,000 tons patrol vessel to Langkawi for this mock exercise.