Japan Air Self-Defense Force Gen. Shigeru Iwasaki, second from left, the chief of joint staff for the Japan Self-Defense Forces, prepares to board a U.S. Marine Corps MV-22B Osprey tiltrotor aircraft attached to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 265, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, III Marine Expeditionary Force, assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit to return to Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, Japan, aboard the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) helicopter destroyer JDS Ise (DDH 182) Nov. 12, 2013. It was the first time an Osprey landed on a JMSDF ship in the Asia-Pacific region.