Off the southwest coast of Japan, a Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force minesweeper sank after catching fire the day before.

When the proposal was raised to send a Japan Coast Guard cutter to the Persian Gulf, Chief Cabinet Secretary Masaharu Gotoda opposed the move as he did the minesweeper dispatch on the grounds that ...

MUNAKATA, Fukuoka Prefecture--Search efforts are under way after a crew member of a Maritime Self-Defense Force minesweeper went missing when the vessel caught fire and sank during a training ...