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After two years of repairs, guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald prepares to depart a shipyard in the U.S. state of Mississippi on June 13 to return to its home port in California. (Photo courtesy of the U.S. Navy)

KEN MORIYASU, Nikkei Asian Review chief desk editor

NEW YORK -- The U.S. Navy's guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald, which collided with a container ship off Japan in 2017, concluded a two-year repair and left Pascagoula shipyard in the state of Mississippi Saturday.

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