Ashigara
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Ashigara may refer to:
- Mount AshigaraMount AshigaraMount Ashigara , also known as Mount Kintoki , is the northernmost peak of the Hakone caldera, on the border of Kanagawa and Shizuoka prefectures, in the Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park in Japan...
in Kanagawa PrefectureKanagawa Prefectureis a prefecture located in the southern Kantō region of Japan. The capital is Yokohama. Kanagawa is part of the Greater Tokyo Area.-History:The prefecture has some archaeological sites going back to the Jōmon period...
, JapanJapanJapan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south... - AshigaraJapanese cruiser AshigaraAshigara was a Myōkō class heavy cruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy. The other ships of her class were Myōkō , Nachi , and Haguro...
, a cruiserCruiserA cruiser is a type of warship. The term has been in use for several hundreds of years, and has had different meanings throughout this period...
of the Imperial Japanese NavyImperial Japanese NavyThe Imperial Japanese Navy was the navy of the Empire of Japan from 1869 until 1947, when it was dissolved following Japan's constitutional renunciation of the use of force as a means of settling international disputes...
, named after the mountain. - An Atago class destroyerAtago class destroyerThe is an improved version of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force 's Kongō class destroyers. It is a Japanese variant of the United States Navy Arleigh Burke-class destroyer ....
of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force- JS Ashigara (DDG-178)JS Ashigara (DDG-178)JS Ashigara is an Atago class guided missile destroyer in the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force . Ashigara was named for Mount Ashigara, and is the first Japanese ship to bear the prefix JS instead of JDS .She was laid down by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in Nagasaki, Nagasaki on April 6, 2005,...
- JS Ashigara (DDG-178)