JS ''Takashio'' (SS-597) is the eighth boat of the s. She was commissioned on 9 March 2005.

Construction and career

''Takashio'' was

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Shipyard on 30 January 2001 and launched on 1 October 2003. She was commissioned on 9 March 2005 and deployed to

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. On 10 October 2012, she headed for

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via

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for training in the

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, and was dispatched until 23 January 2013. From 22 July to 21 October 2016, she participated in the US dispatch training and conducted offshore training and facility use training in the

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area.https://www.mod.go.jp/msdf/formal/info/news/201607/20160719-01.pdf

Gallery

File:JS Takashio (SS-597) at Yokosuka, -1 Aug. 2009 d.jpg, JS ''Takashio'' at

Yokosuka is a city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. , the city has a population of 409,478, and a population density of . The total area is . Yokosuka is the 11th most populous city in the Greater Tokyo Area, and the 12th in the Kantō region. The city ...

on 1 August 2009. File:JS Takashio (SS-597) at Yokosuka, -1 Aug. 2009 a.jpg, JS ''Takashio'' at Yokosuka on 1 August 2009. File:JS Takashio (SS-597) at Yokosuka, -1 Aug. 2009 b.jpg, JS ''Takashio'' at Yokosuka on 1 August 2009. File:JS Takashio at Yokosuka Summer Festa 2009 c.jpg, JS ''Takashio'' at Yokosuka in 2009. File:JS Takashio (SS-597) at Yokosuka, -6 Aug. 2011 a.jpg, JS ''Takashio'' at Yokosuka on 6 August 2011. File:JS Takashio's periscope -6 Aug. 2011.ogv, JS ''Takashios periscope on 6 August 2011. File:JS Takashio (SS-597) pulls into the submarine piers at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam for a port visit, -Oct. 2012 (DB801-033).jpg, JS ''Takashio'' at

Pearl Harbor Pearl Harbor is an American lagoon harbor on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, west of Honolulu. It was often visited by the Naval fleet of the United States, before it was acquired from the Hawaiian Kingdom by the U.S. with the signing of the Re ...

on 31 October 2012. File:JS Takashio (SS-597) pulls into the submarine piers at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam for a port visit, -Oct. 2012 (DB801-035).jpg, JS ''Takashio'' at Pearl Harbor on 31 October 2012. File:JS Takashio (SS-597) pulls into the submarine piers at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam for a port visit, -Oct. 2012 (DB801-037).jpg, JS ''Takashio'' at Pearl Harbor on 31 October 2012.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Takashio (SS-597) 2003 ships Oyashio-class submarines Ships built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries