KOCHI (PTI): Two ships of Japanese Maritime Self Defence Force (JMSDF) arrived here Thursday for a brief fuelling stopover on their way for anti-piracy deployment in the Gulf of Eden.
JDS Sazanami and JDS Inazuma, part of Escort Division Eight of JMSDF, would be away from their base port of Kure in Hiroshima prefecture for about 5 months, a defence press release said.
Captain Yoshikiyo Yamamoto, commander Escort Division Eight is the senior officer onboard JDS Sazanami.
