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Tokara

Region
Japan
Category
Marine
Twenty Tokara-class OPVs are in service with the Japan Coast Guard, and the most recent entered service in 2012. A key role for the vessels is EEZ patrol and maritime border enforcement. It is reported that a Tokara OPV was to be deployed into disputed waters around Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands in the South China
Sea.