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Japan's helicopter carrier JS Izumo, top, escorts a U.S. supply ship in the waters off Kozu Island, southwest of Tokyo, in the Pacific Ocean Monday, May 1, 2017. Japan's navy has dispatched its largest destroyer reportedly tasked with escorting U.S. military ships off the Japanese coast, a first-time mission under new security legislation that allows Japan’s military a greater role overseas, amid heightened tension on the Korean Peninsula. The Izumo, that left Yokosuka port Monday morning, started to escort the U.S. supply ship after the two vessels met up in the waters off the Boso Peninsula, south of Tokyo, later in the day. (Ren Onuma/Kyodo News via AP)

Japan's helicopter carrier JS Izumo, top, escorts a U.S. supply ship in the waters off Kozu Island, southwest of Tokyo, in the Pacific Ocean Monday, May 1, 2017. Japan's navy has dispatched its largest destroyer reportedly tasked with escorting U.S. military ships off the Japanese coast, a first-time mission under new security legislation that allows Japan’s military a greater role overseas, amid heightened tension on the Korean Peninsula. The Izumo, that left Yokosuka port Monday morning, started to escort the U.S. supply ship after the two vessels met up in the waters off the Boso Peninsula, south of Tokyo, later in the day. (Ren Onuma/Kyodo News via AP)

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