1.   He commanded a submarine during World War II that was hunted and almost destroyed by Japanese destroyers.

2.   I spotted a Japanese destroyer, a chidori actually, a small, fast, lethal, nimble anti-sub ship.

3.   It was a Japanese destroyer.

4.   It was the Japanese destroyer Amagiri.

5.   Japanese destroyers were beached on nearby islands.

6.   Sadaaki Numata, the chief Foreign Ministry spokesman, said Wednesday that the Japanese destroyers could not have gone beyond warning shots.

7.   The citation noted that, after firing its torpedoes, the Seawolf was often the target of prolonged depth-charge attacks by Japanese destroyers.

8.   A Japanese destroyer accidentally shot down a U.S. attack bomber during joint military exercises off Hawaii.

9.   A Japanese destroyer mistakenly fired live ammunition into a residential area, and commanders waited four months to report it, Defense Agency officials said Friday.

10.   A Japanese destroyer accidentally shot down a U.S. attack bomber during military exercises off Hawaii.