Adopting Japan's first all-gas turbine engine (COGOG), equipped with well-balanced weapons such as helicopters, C4I systems, and various missiles, it is inferior to Western frigate at that time.

This is the first destroyer class in the JMSDF equipped with the Sea Sparrow Improved basic point defense missile system.

The IBPDMS of this class uses FCS-2 fire-control systems of Japanese make and one octuple launcher at the afterdeck.

And in the JMSDF, OTO Melara 76 mm compact gun and Boeing Harpoon surface-to-surface missile are adopted from the ship of FY1977 including this class.

[1] She was commissioned into the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force in 1982 and was decommissioned in 2010 with 28 years of active service.