Japan’s acquisition of the ASEV destroyers will allow it to be a more proactive bulwark against Chinese aggression.

Nicknamed the “Tokyo Express” by their opponents, the Japanese “tin cans” acquired the grudging respect of the Americans for ...

Japan is constructing two new, heavily armed ASEV-type (AEGIS System Equipped Vessel) destroyers. These vessels, which ...

(National Archives) World War II was marked by numerous technical ... The naval struggle was generally fought at night, pitting Japanese destroyers ferrying reinforcements to contested islands ...