Japan Coast Guard Museum Yokohama

The is a museum in Naka-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, dedicated to maritime security and the Japan Coast Guard. It opened on 10 December 2004.

Exhibits

The centrepiece of the museum is a North Korean spy vessel, which was sunk by the Japan Coast Guard in December 2001 following a firefight in the East China Sea near the island of Amami-Ōshima. (See Battle of Amami-Ōshima.)

See also

• NYK Maritime Museum, in Yokohama
• Japan Coast Guard Museum, in Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture

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