A officer from the Philippine Navy disclosed that the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force helicopter destroyer JS Izumo will make a stop in the country this June.
By Kaijō Jieitai （海上自衛隊 / Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force） (http://www.mod.go.jp/msdf/formal/jmp/201612.html) [CC BY 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons
“We’re looking forward to that visit… We are still planning whatever activities that we are going to have with them, but definitely they are going to allow the visit by some of our troops to have an idea of that particular vessel,” Vice Admiral Ronald Joseph Mercado was quoted as saying.