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Japanese destroyers visit Vietnam’s Cam Ranh Bay | The Japan Times

CAM RANH, VIETNAM – Two Maritime Self-Defense Force warships made a historic port call Tuesday at Cam Ranh Bay in Vietnam. The visit by the guided-missile destroyers Ariake and Setogiri was the first of its kind, according to the Japanese Embassy in Hanoi. Cam Ranh Bay faces the South China Sea and in particular the…

CAM RANH, VIETNAM – Two Maritime Self-Defense Force warships made a historic port call Tuesday at Cam Ranh Bay in Vietnam.

The visit by the guided-missile destroyers Ariake and Setogiri was the first of its kind, according to the Japanese Embassy in Hanoi.

Cam Ranh Bay faces the South China Sea and in particular the Paracel and Spratly island chains, a source of dispute between Vietnam and China.

In Tokyo, Defense Minister Gen Nakatani told a news conference Tuesday he expects bilateral defense cooperation with Vietnam to grow.

via www.japantimes.co.jp

It's not surprising that nations in the region, seeing less than overwhelming US pushback against the Chinese claims to the SCS, are finding ways to cooperate as a counter.

Of course, this isn't *really* the first Japanese port visit to Cam Rahn Bay. Since they occupied the country during World War II.

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  1. SFC Dunlap 173d RVN

    Japanese occupied French Indochinanin WWII. At the end of the war Vietnam was restored to the French and it all kind of went from there. Oddly, there was a moment when Ho Chi Minh was working with OSS in an independence bid and he also used reputedly one or more of our founding documents as a template for an independent Vietnam. Ah the vagaries of history.

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