U.S. aircraft carrier to enter Hokkaido port with MSDF destroyer (Kyodo) _ The U.S. aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk, based in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, is to enter a Hokkaido port on Saturday accompanied by a Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer, MSDF officials said Friday. The 3,500-ton Yugiri will "strengthen friendship and goodwill" between the MSDF and the U.S. Navy by accompanying Kitty Hawk, and it will not be guarding the U.S. vessel, MSDF officials said, brushing off criticism by civic groups that the MSDF and the U.S. Navy are promoting their integration. The groups have said integration would amount to exercising...
