This video tells the story of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto and his warning that Japan could not sustain a war against the United ...

In 1943, Japan proposed the Konishi KX-3, a gigantic flying boat designed to solve the empire’s collapsing supply lines across the Pacific. Planned to weigh over 400 tons and carry up to 1,000 troops ...

Japan helped build a new jetty at Auki Harbor, pictured above, in the Solomon Islands. The nation’s officials have welcomed investments from international partners other than China. American, ...

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A map shows where Japan will conduct a large-scale exercise on land and in waters and airspace around the archipelagic country later this month, as the United States security ally faces growing ...

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 ...

The recent 80th anniversary of Japan’s surrender at the end of World War II inspired multiple publications on how Japan remembers its wartime history. However, there has been less said about the ...

Japan is facing its most severe security environment since World War II as three potential adversaries in East Asia – China, Russia and North Korea – ramp up military activities in the region, the ...