Based on the nature and purpose of its navy, Japan is a maritime middle power, with an established professional force.

从他的海军队伍上看，日本有一只在世界范围中等力量级别的海上队伍。

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After months of debate, Japan became the latest country to announce the deployment of its navy to protect commercial ships from pirates off Somalia.

经过数月的激烈辩论，日本最终决定派遣海上自卫队在索马里海域打击海盗、为商船护航。

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Yoshi Ikeda, 34, works at the US Navy Base pool in Yokosuka, Japan.

34岁，在驻日美军在横须贺的海军基地里任职。

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In a concurrent response, U.S. Navy ships capable of shooting down ballistic missiles are being moved to the Sea of Japan, a Navy spokesman said Thursday.

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But when Japan unleashed its navy, it was sufficient to pull America into war.

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This socialisation for war made it only natural for Hirohito to accept (some would say welcome) the undermining of Japanese diplomacy by the army and later the navy that set Japan on its fateful course to launching co-ordinated attacks in 1941: the airborne assault on the American fleet in Pearl Harbour and the ground landing on Kota Bharu in British Malaya.

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