After the war, the Emergency Beriberi Investigative Committee investigated the disease’s devastation of Japanese ranks. Worried about the composition of the committee and fully aware of Takaki’s ...

During the night of February 19/20, 1942, the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command (ABDA) sent a squadron towards the ...

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 ...

Anti-submarine warfare was a blind spot for Imperial Japan, with deadly results. Why did Imperial Japan fail to prepare for the threat of submarine warfare, and what lessons can we take for how ...

On April 7, 1945, the Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Yamato — the largest battleship ever built, displacing nearly 72,000 ...

Wreck Imperial Japanese Navy Carrier Kaga on Oct. 17. Vulcan Image Researchers have discovered the wreck of the Imperial Japanese Navy carrier that was key to the attack on Pearl Harbor and that sank ...

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa —An Imperial Japanese Navy vessel that took part in the attack on Pearl Harbor has been found submerged off Japan’s southern coast. The destroyer Isokaze was discovered in spring ...

In August 1882 in Incheon Bay near Seoul, four Japanese warships were locked in a tense stand-off with two Chinese warships that had brought troops to quell a revolt on the Korean peninsula. On paper, ...