日媒：缅甸背叛中国迎日本舰队

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BBC Chinese, Oct 2, 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/si ... 2_burma_japan.shtml

Note:
(a) “目前正停靠在缅甸首都仰光郊外迪拉瓦港的日本海上自卫队的舰队包括练习舰’鹿岛、’ ‘白雪’和护卫舰’矶雪’3艘军舰，共搭载包括170名海上自卫队见习军官在内约730人。”
(i) 迪拉瓦港  
Thilawa Port
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thilawa_Port
(a deep sea port 25 km south of Yangoon; fully owned by Hutchison Port Holdings)
(ii) JDS Kashima (TV-3508)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JDS_Kashima_(TV-3508)
(1995-present; flagship of the JMSDF Training Fleet; The name Kashima comes from the famous Shinto Kashima Shrine 鹿島 神宮 in [City of Kashima 鹿嶋市,] Ibaraki prefecture 茨城県, located to the northeast of Tokyo)

TV = training vessel
(iii)
(A) There is no Wiki page for the CURRENT Shirayuki 白雪 vessel. Historically there were two Shirayuki destroyers 駆逐艦 (1906-1924 and 1928-1943): named after  昭和天皇の乗馬
(B) Shirayuki
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirayuki

From French Wikipedia, in French language. View the photo only.
(iv) Isoyuki 磯雪 (1985-present)
(v)  海上自衛隊 Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF), “the naval branch of the Japan Self-Defense Forces.” Wikipedia

Japan does not have marines yet.

(b) Japanese-English dictionary:
* ibara 茨; 荊; 棘 【いばら】 (n): “thorny shrub”
* iso 磯 【いそ】 (n): “(rocky) beach; seashore”

(c) Harumi passenger terminal 晴海 客船 ターミナル (pronounced “ta-minaru”) at Port of Tokyo

Harumi is a neighborhood name in Tokyo. See 晴海 (東京都中央区)
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%99%B4%E6%B5%B7_(%E6%9D%B1%E4%BA%AC%E9%83%BD%E4%B8%AD%E5%A4%AE%E5%8C%BA)
(reclaimed from Tokyo Bay in 1929; adopted the current name in 1937)