diff --git a/icu4j/main/classes/charset/src/com/ibm/icu/charset/CharsetEncoderICU.java b/icu4j/main/classes/charset/src/com/ibm/icu/charset/CharsetEncoderICU.java
index 9ad9b25cd51..2d6348b4c7a 100644
--- a/icu4j/main/classes/charset/src/com/ibm/icu/charset/CharsetEncoderICU.java
+++ b/icu4j/main/classes/charset/src/com/ibm/icu/charset/CharsetEncoderICU.java
@@ -853,7 +853,6 @@ public abstract class CharsetEncoderICU extends CharsetEncoder {
      *         <code>CoderResult.UNDERFLOW</code> if there is a problem, or
      *         <code>null</code> if there isn't.
      * @see #handleSurrogates(CharBuffer, char)
-     * @see #handleSurrogates(CharBuffer, int, char)
      * @see #handleSurrogates(char[], int, int, char)
      */
     final CoderResult handleSurrogates(CharBuffer source, char lead) {
@@ -895,7 +894,6 @@ public abstract class CharsetEncoderICU extends CharsetEncoder {
      *         <code>CoderResult.UNDERFLOW</code> if there is a problem, or <code>null</code> if
      *         there isn't.
      * @see #handleSurrogates(CharBuffer, char)
-     * @see #handleSurrogates(CharBuffer, int, char)
      * @see #handleSurrogates(char[], int, int, char)
      */
     final CoderResult handleSurrogates(char[] sourceArray, int sourceIndex,
diff --git a/icu4j/main/classes/collate/src/com/ibm/icu/text/AlphabeticIndex.java b/icu4j/main/classes/collate/src/com/ibm/icu/text/AlphabeticIndex.java
index e34eb483bf8..8a70aca58a5 100644
--- a/icu4j/main/classes/collate/src/com/ibm/icu/text/AlphabeticIndex.java
+++ b/icu4j/main/classes/collate/src/com/ibm/icu/text/AlphabeticIndex.java
@@ -390,7 +390,6 @@ public final class AlphabeticIndex<V> implements Iterable<Bucket<V>> {
     /**
      * Determine the best labels to use. This is based on the exemplars, but we also process to make sure that they are unique,
      * and sort differently, and that the overall list is small enough.
-     * @return 
      */
     private ArrayList<String> initLabels() {
         UnicodeSet exemplars = new UnicodeSet(initialLabels);
@@ -455,7 +454,6 @@ public final class AlphabeticIndex<V> implements Iterable<Bucket<V>> {
      * This method is called to get the index exemplars. Normally these come from the locale directly,
      * but if they aren't available, we have to synthesize them.
      * @param locale
-     * @return
      */
     private UnicodeSet getIndexExemplars(ULocale locale) {
         UnicodeSet exemplars;
diff --git a/icu4j/main/classes/core/src/com/ibm/icu/text/DateTimePatternGenerator.java b/icu4j/main/classes/core/src/com/ibm/icu/text/DateTimePatternGenerator.java
index bf8154081b8..b2a834d8ff9 100644
--- a/icu4j/main/classes/core/src/com/ibm/icu/text/DateTimePatternGenerator.java
+++ b/icu4j/main/classes/core/src/com/ibm/icu/text/DateTimePatternGenerator.java
@@ -1635,13 +1635,12 @@ public class DateTimePatternGenerator implements Freezable<DateTimePatternGenera
 
     /**
      * @param foundMask
-     * @return
      */
     private int getTopBitNumber(int foundMask) {
         int i = 0;
         while (foundMask != 0) {
             foundMask >>>= 1;
-    ++i;
+            ++i;
         }
         return i-1;
     }
@@ -1878,7 +1877,6 @@ public class DateTimePatternGenerator implements Freezable<DateTimePatternGenera
      * Get the canonical index, or return -1 if illegal.
      * @param s
      * @param strict TODO
-     * @return
      */
     private static int getCanonicalIndex(String s, boolean strict) {
         int len = s.length();
diff --git a/icu4j/main/classes/core/src/com/ibm/icu/text/MessageFormat.java b/icu4j/main/classes/core/src/com/ibm/icu/text/MessageFormat.java
index 167e043cf75..7a46971fee9 100644
--- a/icu4j/main/classes/core/src/com/ibm/icu/text/MessageFormat.java
+++ b/icu4j/main/classes/core/src/com/ibm/icu/text/MessageFormat.java
@@ -525,7 +525,6 @@ public class MessageFormat extends UFormat {
     /**
      * Returns the part index of the next ARG_START after partIndex, or -1 if there is none more.
      * @param partIndex Part index of the previous ARG_START (initially 0).
-     * @return
      */
     private int nextTopLevelArgStart(int partIndex) {
         if (partIndex != 0) {