The is a museum in

Naka-ku, Yokohama is one of the 18 wards of the city of Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. In 2010, the ward had an estimated population of 146,563 and a population density of 7,080 persons per km². The total area was 20.86 km². Geography Naka Ward i ...

Kanagawa Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Kanagawa Prefecture is the second-most populous prefecture of Japan at 9,221,129 (1 April 2022) and third-densest at . Its geographic area of makes it fifth-smallest. Kana ...

, Japan, dedicated to maritime security and the

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. It opened on 10 December 2004.

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The centrepiece of the museum is a North Korean spy vessel, which was sunk by the

in December 2001 following a firefight in the

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near the island of Amami-Ōshima. (See

Battle of Amami-Ōshima The , was a six-hour confrontation between the Japan Coast Guard and an armed North Korean vessel on 22 December 2001, taking place near the Japanese island of Amami Ōshima, in the East China Sea. The encounter ended in the sinking of the North ...

.) File:North-Korean spy-vessel front viwe.JPG, North Korean spy vessel housed inside the museum

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