Today, the Pacific remains a prominent strategic interest for the U.S. military, but the Marine Corps recently deactivated ...

The Imperial Japanese Navy’s Hyūga Was the Last Battleship Sunk in Combat: The second and last of the Imperial Japanese Navy’s (IJN’s) Ise-class, Hyūga has the distinction of being the last battleship ...

Summary and Key Points: “The Great War of Archimedes” presents a fictionalized account of the political maneuvers behind the construction of the Japanese battleship Yamato, a symbol of Japan’s naval ...

When World War 2 came to its dramatic end, Saburō Sakai was a bona fide legend; the descendant of a samurai family had become ...

In the face of mounting tensions with Imperial Japan, the U.S. Navy experimented with an audacious new idea: airship carriers that could scout vast sections of the Pacific with ease. But despite the ...

More than 80 years ago, the Imperial Japanese Navy launched a devastating surprise attack against U.S. air and naval forces at Pearl Harbor. Many Americans today believe the attack was totally ...

Servicemembers assigned to Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) made a brief mission stop, March 20, near Ulithi Atoll, part of the Caroline Islands in the Federated States of ...

A ceremony was held in southern Taiwan on Sunday to honor Taiwanese soldiers who died on battlefields serving for Japan d ...

A Japanese helicopter destroyer, which bears the same name as an aircraft carrier that took part in Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II, visited the Hawaiian harbor on Tuesday. Newsweek ...