During World War II, a small American destroyer escort quietly destroyed Japan’s final submarine scouting line in the Pacific ...

Japan has commissioned a new hunter-killer submarine that can operate in shallow seas to protect borders. Called Raigei or Thunder Whale, the diesel-electric submarine is initially planned to operate ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s military said it dispatched a surveillance plane and a navy ship Tuesday after spotting a Russian submarine off the coast of a southwestern island near Taiwan. The Russian ...

The Japanese Navy included five Type A midget submarines in the Pearl Harbor raid of 7 December 1941. Transported on board large I type submarines, the midgets were launched near the entrance to Pearl ...

Two groups of Russian naval vessels, including a submarine, were spotted transiting near the territories of Japan and Taiwan. On Tuesday, Japan's Ministry of Defense reported that the sub and a rescue ...

It was mostly wartime bluster but the lead paragraph in a San Bernardino Sun article in 1942 really seemed spot on: “Hirohito and his war lords would have gnashed their teeth in fury yesterday had ...

A new video from Japan’s maritime authorities captures an underwater volcano bursting through the sea surface in a violent ...

Japan's Ministry of Defense announced in December 2025 that it had suspended Kawasaki Heavy Industries from bidding on ...