- Security domain
- Sea
- What it is
- self-defense force · service (level 3)
- Founded
- 1954
- Acknowledged by
- Official website (official site)
- Active headcount
- 50,800 (2026) estimated, medium confidence
- Headcount source
- Wikipedia infobox, Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
- Website
- www.mod.go.jp/msdf
- Identifiers
- factbase.org/org/G1XHK1HC76 · Q731647
Beneath it
- Self Defense Fleet24,000