JDS Ojika at sea alongside 2 of her sister.
History
Japan
Name	Ojika (おじか)
Namesake	Ojika
Builder	Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries
Laid down	10 June 1974
Launched	2 September 1975
Commissioned	22 March 1976
Decommissioned	10 August 2001
Homeport	Yokosuka
Identification	LST-4152
Status	Decommissioned
General characteristics
Class and type	Miura-class tank landing ship
Displacement	2,000 t (2,000 long tons) standard 3,300 t (3,200 long tons) full load
Length	94 m (308 ft 5 in) pp 98 m (321 ft 6 in) oa
Beam	14 m (45 ft 11 in)
Draft	3 m (9 ft 10 in)
Propulsion	2 × Kawasaki-MAN V8V 22/30 AMTL diesel engines 2 shafts propulsion 3,300 kW (4,400 bhp)
Speed	14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph)
Range	4,300 nmi (8,000 km; 4,900 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Boats & landing craft carried	2 × LCVPs 2 × LCMs
Complement	118
Sensors and processing systems	OPS-14 radar OPS-16 radar
Armament	1 × twin 76 mm (3 in)/50 guns 1 × twin 40 mm (1.6 in) guns

JDS Ojika (LST-4152) was the second ship of the Miura-class landing ship tanks of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force. She was commissioned on 22 March 1976.

The Maritime Self-Defense Force's transport and landing craft unit set up a fleet in 1955 with six general-purpose landing craft (LCUs) and 29 mobile landing craft (LCMs) provided by the U.S. Navy under the MSA Agreement. And. Subsequently, in 1961, based on the MSA agreement, three LST-542-class tank landing ships (LST-1 class final type) retired by the U.S. Navy were donated and started operation as Osumi type transport ships.^[1]

The three ships of the same type formed the first transport corps under the control of the Yokosuka District Force, but on May 1, 1962, they were reassigned under the direct control of the Self-Defense Fleet and engaged in maritime transport and maritime operation transport. It was an extremely practical landing ship except for the lack of speed, but all of them were built from 1944 to 1945, and since they will reach the end of their useful life in the 40's of the Showa era, an alternative ship is needed. Was there. For this reason, the design of the 1,500-ton type (45LST), which had been built for the district corps a little earlier, was expanded, and it was built as a 2,000-ton type transport ship for agile operation under the SDF fleet.^[2][3][4]

She was laid down on June 10, 1974 at Ishikawajima Harima Tokyo No. 2 Factory as the 1973 planned transport ship No. 4152 based on the 4th Defense Force Development Plan, and launched on September 4, 1975, 1976. Commissioned on March 22, 2014, it was incorporated into the 1st Transport Corps under the direct control of the Self-Defense Fleet and deployed in Yokosuka.

In 1992, a Cambodian dispatched maritime transport supply unit was formed to dispatch the Self-Defense Forces to Cambodia, loaded with personnel and vehicles, and departed Yokosuka with JDS Miura on September 17, 1992. They joined and arrived at the port of Sihanukville in Cambodia on October 2. Returned to Yokosuka on December 26.

She was decommissioned on August 10, 2001. The total itinerary during commissioning reached 387,699 nautical miles, 18 laps of the earth.^[5]