American F-35B lands on a Japanese destroyer for first time: US Navy

Good news! A deepening military cooperation and interoperability between these two countries.

"The US Navy for the first time landed an F-35B onboard Japan’s largest ship, the destroyer JS Kaga (DDH-184), during sea trials off the coast of southern California ...

The Kaga underwent several changes to allow for F-35B, the US Marine Corps’ short-take-off-and-vertical-landing variant, to land on the ship, including painting the flight deck with a heat-resistant material, installing lights for nighttime operations and reshaping the flight deck’s bow from a trapezoid to a rectangle, according to the US Navy statement.  ..."

American F-35B lands on a Japanese destroyer for first time: US Navy - Breaking Defense "The testing taking place off the coast of California comes as the White House has made several attempts to bolster the US-Japan security relationship."