What would happen if a modern U.S. supercarrier faced the entire Imperial Japanese Navy of World War II? This thought ...

The Battle of Okinawa was the bloodiest fight in the Pacific theater in World War II, with tens of thousands killed across ...

The Imperial Japanese Navy’s Yamato-class warships were the largest and most powerfully armed battleships ever constructed, ...

Imperial Folly: Why the Yamato Battleship Was a Waste of Resources Here’s What You Need to Remember: Had the war not come, Japan would have bankrupt itself spending on these massive ships.

Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni's commander, Col. Richard Rusnok, chats with Rear Adm. Ichiro Ishikawa, head of Japan's ...

Unlike the U.S. Navy, the Imperial Japanese Navy took notice of the first exercise. It watched the1932 attack and studied it closely.

An A6M2 Zero fighter pictured on the flight deck of the Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier Akagi around the time of the Pearl Harbor attack on Dec. 7, 1941. (Naval History and Heritage Command) ...