First two days of March (Lunar New Year), April 7, 2008, the U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier leave stationed in Japan to fulfill defense commitments. the


planned deployment base in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, the U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier "George Washington" and leave the U.S. East Coast base in Norfolk, Virginia, in the morning, local time, plan 8 month arrived in Yokosuka. Suffered from Japan after the atomic bomb attack, it will be the first ship of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier stationed in Japan. The U.S. Department of Defense said that the security of the Western Pacific area, and need the most advanced warship deployment in the United States to play a deterrent effect.