Despite the successes of the I-19 in the war, Japan was never able to connect these victories with a larger strategy for ...

Japan's navy might have been decimated by June 1944. One of the most decisive battles of the Second World War could have ended up very differently. Be glad it didn’t though. Just one Japanese ...

A boat sitting in a river in Tokyo’s Chuo Ward that looks like any other watercraft has been causing waves online as it may have once been part of the Imperial Japanese Navy. There is a high ...

On Oct. 25, 1944, the Imperial Japanese Navy mounted the first organized suicide ... but also their profiles and a list of family members. In its Oct. 29, 1944, edition, The Asahi Shimbun splashed ...