Japanese Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi says the Self-Defense Forces have completed their aid mission to Tonga, which was hit by tsunami waves and ash fall following a massive undersea volcanic eruption last month.
A transport vessel of Japan s Maritime Self-Defense Force departs for Tonga as part of Japan s continuing relief efforts to the Pacific islands nation, which was hit by an undersea volcanic eruption and a tsunami earlier in the month.
A C-130 transport plane dispatched by Japan s Air Self-Defense Force carrying drinking water arrives in Tonga after an undersea volcanic eruption and a tsunami hit the Pacific islands nation last weekend.
Japan will provide more than $1 million and relief supplies to disaster-hit Tonga after an undersea volcanic eruption over the weekend left at least three people dead and disrupted infrastructure, the government says.