12/07/2025
Rear Adm. Touri Sasaki, Japan Self Defense Force Deputy Director General for Project Management, Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics Agency, Vice Adm. Fred Kacher, Commander U.S. Seventh Fleet, Michio Ito, Director of the Yokosuka Defense Office, and Capt. Dan Lannamann, Commander of U.S. Naval Ship Repair Facility and Japan Regional Maintenance Center (SRF-JRMC) strike the sake barrel's top with wooden mallets, in a traditional Japanese "Kagami Biraki" ceremony during SRF-JRMC’s 2025 New Year celebration on Jan. 17. For over 75-years, SRF-JRMC has been the linchpin of U.S. naval operations in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region by providing intermediate-level and depot level repair for the ships of the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Seventh Fleet.