Sasebo
Americannoun
noun
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Some came within 150 miles of the Japanese city of Sasebo, home to a core U.S. naval base, according to ship-tracking data provided by geospatial analysis firm ingeniSPACE and verified by The Wall Street Journal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
Leona Woods Marshall Libby: My brother-in-law was a captain of the first bombs’ minesweeper scheduled into Sasebo harbor.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 20, 2023
“We have concluded our damage reports and it’s the usual downed trees, some bent fence posts, just some minor damage to the base,” Sasebo spokesman Aki Nichols told the military newspaper.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 19, 2022
This Yamagami joined a training unit in Sasebo, a major navy base in the southwest, and was assigned to a destroyer artillery section, the spokesperson said.
From Reuters ● Jul. 9, 2022
And so, if Admiral Sasebo was at sea, and on the loose again, it could well mean a lot of trouble, and then some.
From Dave Dawson on Guadalcanal by Bowen, Robert Sydney
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