TOKYO, Japan (CNN)-- Two Japanese destroyers set sail Saturday ... more latitude against pirates. It would allow the MSDF to fire on boats that close in on commercial ships after repeated warnings ...

A cruise ship sailing from Darwin ... “If a cruise or passenger vessel was attacked by pirates, the response from naval vessels would be swift and sudden, moreso than if it was a regular ...

I had heard of “kitamaebune” ships on the Sea of Japan that headed north ... However, the legacy of the kitamaebune continues to sail on with today’s generation of adventurous start-ups.

As part of the joint naval maneuvers in the Arabian Sea, the Russian Navy guard ship and the Japanese destroyer conducted an operation to free a vessel notionally seized by pirates, the Baltic ...