It also announced the conversion of the two Izumo-class helicopter carriers into ... what's needed for the future. Earlier this month, China expressed concerns about Japan's partnerships and ...

Indeed, Japan’s inability to provide sufficient pilots and escort carriers made it extremely ... seem likely to hold for the foreseeable future, carrier captains and sub skippers will still ...

At the end of 2018, the defense program outline and midterm defense program included plans to convert Izumo-type destroyers into virtual aircraft carriers to strengthen air defense on Japan’s ...