With Pyongyang’s most recent missile launch over Japan, beefing up Japanese missile defense becomes a politically and economically justifiable imperative. The announcement contrasts with long ...

Japan’s acquisition of the ASEV destroyers will allow it to be a more proactive bulwark against Chinese aggression. Subsequent to its defeat in World War II, Japan adopted the so-called ...

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 advances and battles in which they played a pivotal role. Relatively overlooked but having an importance of its own was the destroyer ...

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

TOKYO, Japan (CNN)-- Two Japanese destroyers set sail Saturday on an anti-piracy mission off Somalia, the Japanese defense ministry said, marking the first policing action for the country's ...

After suffering more than 220,000 casualties, the Empire of Japan announced its surrender, leading to the end of World War II. The US forces ... known as the oxygen destroyer that could ...

The StuG III, or Sturmgeschütz III, was the most produced German armored fighting vehicle in WWII. It could penetrate the front armor of tanks like the KV-1. The powerful tank destroyer and its ...

The Japanese government said on April 2 that a video spreading on social media that appears to be drone footage of the Maritime Self-Defense Force’s Izumo destroyer may be a “fake” video.

(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 ...

A Japanese navy destroyer made a rare entry into China’s territorial waters near Taiwan earlier this month without notifying China and sparking “serious concerns” from Beijing, Japanese ...