On the morning of April 7, 1945, the Japanese battleship Yamato, behemoth of naval engineering and pride of the Imperial Japanese Navy, sortied on what was essentially a suicidal mission. Operation ...

TOKYO — Two more Japanese navy destroyers left today to join an international mission to curb piracy off the coast of Somalia, and for the first time will be authorized to escort both foreign and ...

In the turbulent waters of the Indian Ocean, by March 1942, the Allies’ time was rapidly running out. The Battle of the Java ...

The U.S.S. Edsall’s 2023 discovery at the bottom of the Indian Ocean is reviving the tale of the ship the Japanese forces ...

Japan plans to modify one of its destroyers to be Tomahawk cruise missile capable by March 31, 2026, and may conduct operational firing tests the following year in the U.S., Japan’s defense minister ...

A Japanese minesweeper was engulfed in fire while underway in the Sea of Japan and later sank, leaving one sailor missing. JS Ukushima, a Sugashima-class minesweeper assigned to the Japan Maritime ...

JS Chokai is in the US getting modified to carry Tomahawk cruise missiles, marking the latest step toward Japan acquiring the ...

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — The U.S. Navy has resumed some Osprey operations on Okinawa, three months after a ban on flying the U.S. military’s tiltrotors was lifted, according to Japanese officials. One ...

President Donald Trump and other senior U.S. leaders are on tour in Asia this week affirming alliances against the backdrop ...