[impatient]

The older carrier is Kitty Hawk. Does anyone know which Nimitz is going there?

According to this:

The Navy has 10 nuclear-powered carriers. The Pentagon press release did not name the nuclear carrier that would be transferred from a U.S. port to Yokosuka.

That count includes the George H. W. Bush (CVN-77) still under construction. Is it more likely to be one whose homeport is the Pacific, or does that not matter ?

[neodad]

The way it always seemed to work was that one of the oldest carriers was in Yoko. Coral Sea, then Independence, then Kitty Hawk. But it seems to me that with the proximity to the Indian Ocean, China, North Korea, etc. the Navy may want to put a top of the line CVN there.