The US & Japan to research a high speed troop transport/minesweeper based on the LCS-2?

Thanks to John Doe for the link...

via JiJi.com

　The 4th, The Governments of Japan and the United States agreed on the basis of (MDA) Japan-US Mutual Defense Assistance Agreement, to carry out joint development of small high-speed ship capable helicopter. Shore fields statement male same day, Kennedy Ambassador and Foreign Minister replaced the letter. U.S. Department of Defense and the Ministry of Defense hits the research jointly.
　Ministry of Defense think you want to develop and deploy a minesweeper ship and transport of thousand several hundred tons the amount of drainage class helicopter can be installed, can navigate at high speed. U.S. Navy owns combine the conditions of these "Littoral combat ship", to promote the research based on this design technology. (2014/03/04-21: 14)

I seriously wonder why Google Translate is able to do such a good job handling Mandarin but just drops the ball completely with almost every other language?

Quite honestly I'm trusting John Doe on his take on the article.  He seems to think that this indicates that the US and Japan are going to research a high speed troop transport, helicopter capable, mine sweeping ship...based on the LCS-2.

The article is here is you want to try your own translation tool on it.