The U.S. Navy is striving to implement new measures for its guided-missile destroyer named USS Rafael Peralta (DDG 115), which belongs to the Arleigh Burke class, to make its port call at Ishigaki Island from March 11–14, per an official in Ishigaki City.
If everything follows the thought-out strategy, this one will be the first-ever visit by a U.S. Navy destroyer to the politically turbulent island of southwestern Nansei Island chain of Japan, spanning approximately 1,200 km, extending from...