Japanese patrol vessel Akitsushima

"Akitsushima" (PLH-32) is a "Akitsushima"-class patrol vessel currently operated by the Japanese Coast Guard.
Design.
"Akitsushima"-class patrol vessels have surface-search and navigation radars and a single-mounted Oerlikon 35 mm or 40 mm autocanon. And as a secondary weapon, two JM61 20 mm gun systems were set up. This system adopts the same rotary cannon as the conventional JM61-M, but it is remotely controlled with an optical director as opposed to JM61-M being manually trained and elevated. It derived from one of the PG-821-class guided-missile patrol boats of the JMSDF, and later, added as a standard equipment of the JCG as the JM61-RFS.
Aviation facilities have also been enhanced. Two Eurocopter AS332 or EC225LP Super Puma helicopters were deployed as the shipboard helicopters, whereas the conventional PLHs are equipped with smaller Bell 212.
Construction and career.
"Akitsushima" was laid down on 10 May 2011 and launched on 4 July 2012 by IHI, Tokyo. She was commissioned on 28 November 2013.
In 2015, during the Emperor's and to Palau, "Akitsushima" was used as an accommodation ship. Slopes and handrails were set up so that both elderly Majesties could get on board comfortably.