Summary and Key Points: Japan’s Taigei-class “Big Whale” submarines are portrayed as a generational step beyond the ...

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 ...

During World War II, Japan developed one of the most ambitious naval weapons of the conflict—the I-400 Sen-Toku class submarine carriers. These massive submarines, the largest of WW II, were designed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s military said it dispatched a surveillance plane and a navy ship Tuesday after spotting a Russian submarine ...

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 ...

Japan took the unusual step Monday of announcing that it had carried out the drills, which also involved two destroyers and a helicopter carrier. Japan took the unusual step Monday of announcing that ...

The first female student was admitted to Japan's national naval submarine academy Wednesday after the end of a ban on women on the country's submarines. Saki Takenouchi, 26, entered the academy in a ...

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 ...

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 ...