[1][2] 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.

[3] She was laid down on 26 January 1984 and launched on 3 July 1985 at Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding shipyard in Tamano.