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The Yokosuka Naval Base (Japanese: 横須賀基地, Hepburn: Yokosuka Kichi), also simply known as the JMSDF Yokosuka Naval Base, is a group of ports and land facilities of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF), which are scattered in multiple districts of Yokosuka City, Kanagawa Prefecture, and where the Yokosuka District Force [], etc. are located.
When Commodore Matthew Perry arrived in Japan in 1853, using naval pressure to open up Japan to foreign trade, Yokosuka was a quaint, native fishing village. In 1860, Lord Oguri Kozukenosuke, Minister of Finance to the Tokugawa Shogunate Government, decided that "If Japan is to assume an active role in world trade, she must have proper facilities to build and maintain large seagoing vessels."
Maizuru Naval Base Maizuru Naval District - now a Japan Self-Defense Forces facility and museum; Hiroshima Naval Base; Oroku Aerodrome/Oroku Naval Air Base - now the Naha Airport/Naha Air Base (JSADF, but the MSDF also has a presence) Kōchi Airfield - now Kōchi Ryōma Airport; Truk Islands naval base; Tokushima naval base with seaplane base ...
Yokosuka Naval District was the home port of the IJN 1st Fleet. [citation needed] The Great Kantō earthquake of 1923 caused severe damage to Yokosuka, including the naval base which lost two years' operations of oil supplies. The city continued to expand in 1933 with the annexation of neighboring Kinugasa Village and Taura Town in 1933 and ...
The Yokosuka Naval District was established at Yokosuka, Kanagawa, in 1884, as the first of the naval districts responsible for the defense of the Japanese home islands, and the Yokosuka Shipyards was renamed the Yokosuka Naval Arsenal in 1903. Japan had purchased five submarines from the American Electric Boat Company during the Russo-Japanese ...
United States Naval Hospital Yokosuka Japan with its eight branch clinics are US Navy medical treatment facilities catering to the medical needs of eligible Sailors, Marines, Soldiers, Airmen, family members, U.S. government employees, retired military service members and other eligible beneficiaries of the Forward Deployed Naval Forces on mainland Japan, Korea and Diego Garcia.
Yokosuka Naval Base may refer to: . United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka, the present United States naval base located next to the city, beginning in 1945; JMSDF Yokosuka Naval Base (横須賀基地_(海上自衛隊)), which hosts the headquarters of the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force as well as several major units assigned to the District Force.
NAVCOMTELSTA Far East was originally designated as Naval Communications Facility, Yokosuka Japan; it was commissioned on 8 January 1951, after the outbreak of the Korean War. In December 1952 U.S. Naval Radio Receiving Facility Kami Seya, Japan was completed, and the Security Group Department and general-service receivers were moved to Kami Seya.