Vox Populi, Vox Dei is a daily column that runs on Page 1 of The Asahi Shimbun. So read the front-page headline of The ...
During the night of February 19/20, 1942, the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command (ABDA) sent a squadron towards the ...
Step back to the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, and then forward to a U.S. Navy whose heritage remains true to that infamous day.
Kaga began life as a battleship hull before the Washington Naval Treaty pushed Japan to convert her into an aircraft carrier, ...
Gauging an untested opponent: U.S. perceptions of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1918-1941 -- Dismantling the "lesser foe" and the "superior enemy" images, December 1941 to early 1943 -- The elusive ...
TOKYO — A Japanese fighter that crashed during World War II has been salvaged from waters in southwestern Japan after 81 years. A Shiden Kai, a fighter of the Japanese Imperial Navy, was retrieved ...
A single torpedo salvo from I-19, often called one of the most damaging in submarine warfare history, singlehandedly crippled an entire carrier task force. Commissioned in the early days of World War ...