Despite the successes of the I-19 in the war, Japan was never able to connect these victories with a larger strategy for ...

Designers of the Yamato intended for this monster battleship to defeat any counterpart from the United States Navy. But the advent of aircraft carriers ensured that no such battle would ever occur.

The ship sank off Cape Bonomisaki on Kagoshima's Satsuma Peninsula at 2:23 p.m. on April 7, 1945, with only 276 of the 3,332 ...

Nicknamed the “Tokyo Express” by their opponents, the Japanese “tin cans” acquired the grudging respect of the Americans for ...

MIYAZAKI—Dangerous reminders of Miyazaki Airport's past as a former Imperial Japanese Navy air base during World War II continue to resurface in the unexploded ordnance that remains beneath the ...

China seems to be taking the same careful approach to its carrier program as Japan took during the interwar period. If the Battle of the Philippine Sea had played out differently, Japan's navy ...

A boat sitting in a river in Tokyo’s Chuo Ward that looks like any other watercraft has been causing waves online as it may have once been part of the Imperial Japanese Navy. There is a high ...

Operation Barney was conceptualized by Vice Admiral Lockwood to avenge the loss of the USS Wahoo and her intrepid crew. One of the biggest factors in America’s defeat of Imperial Japan in the ...