Kaijō Hoan-chō
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Japanese Coast Guard |
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 Japanese Coast Guard emblem |
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| Lineup | 1948 |
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 Japan
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| Type | Coast guard |
| Insinuation | Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism |
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| Flag of the JCG |
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The Kaijō Hoan-chō ( Japanese about "Authority for Safety at Sea"; written 海上 保安 庁 , abbreviated 海 保 kaiho or historically ambiguous 保安 庁 hoanchō ; English before 2000: Maritime Safety Agency of Japan , abbreviated MSA or JMSA, since 2000 : Japan Coast Guard , abbreviated JCG) is the coast guard of the state of Japan .
General
The authority is an independent office ( gaikyoku ) of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism with headquarters in Central Government Building No. 3 in Tokyo 's Kasumigaseki district in Chiyoda , Tokyo Prefecture and has around 12,000 employees. Their tasks are the protection and monitoring of coastal waters, the safety of shipping, sea rescue and disaster control.
The Kaijō Hoan-chō was set up under the Ashida cabinet in 1948 during the occupation of the then Ministry of Transport . In 1952, part of the Kaiho was spun off into the new security authority , from which two years later the defense authority and the self- defense forces emerged .
The head of authority ( chōkan , English Commandant ) is in principle subordinate to the Minister for Land, Infrastructure and Transport, for tasks that fall within the competence of other ministries, also to other ministers, on instructions from the Prime Minister or the Minister of Defense in exceptional cases or to the US - Model of the Ministry of Defense. Subordinate to him is a deputy ( jichō , Vice Commandant ), the keibi-kyūnan-kan (dt. About "Head of [Operations for] Defense and Rescue", Vice Commandant for Operations ), six departments of the central authority, the Academy of Authority ( kaijō -hoan-daigakkō ) in Kure and the school of authority ( kaijō-hoan-gakkō ) in Maizuru . More than 60 bases and field offices are organized in eleven regional headquarters ( kan-ku kaijō hoan hombu ). The Kaiho has a total of around 450 ships and boats as well as 27 aircraft and 46 helicopters.
Web links
- Official website (Japanese, English, navigation information also Chinese, Korean, Russian)
- e-Gov ( ī-gabu ), legal database : kaijō-hoan-chō-hō of April 27, 1948 (Japanese)
Coordinates: 35 ° 40 ′ 32.7 ″ N , 139 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ E