MHI launched Tatsuta, the 11th Mogami-class frigate on order for the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF), in a ceremony ...

The American missile-tracking ship was last tracked in the Yellow Sea on June 26, about 100 miles off the Chinese ...

Prepare to uncover one of Japan's most secretive military assets from World War II! The Ryūjō, an illegal aircraft carrier, ...

On-site inspections of the 35 Kawasaki P-1 maritime patrol aircraft in service with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force ...

At the start of WWII, the Imperial Japanese Navy’s aircraft carriers were among the most powerful tools of war in the Pacific. After the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Japan launched a ...

The CSS "Shenandoah" only learned of the Confederacy's defeat in the summer of 1865. That June, the cruiser's crew sank 24 ...

Yahoo! Japan’s shopping site listed 963 food products derived from whales, dolphins and porpoises (cetaceans), including 58 ...

This article was originally published with the title “The Japanese Navy” in SA Supplements Vol. 9 No. 232supp (June 1880), p. 3694 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican06121880-3694asupp ...

Its oceangoing fleet consists of six ships: four handymax bulkers of between 60,000 dwt and 66,000 dwt, one 4,872-teu container vessel and one LPG carrier, the 5,034-cbm Gas Xanadu (built 2010).

Two Chinese aircraft carriers have for the first time ventured into the easternmost edge of Japan’s exclusive economic zone, in what is seen as a show of force aimed at Tokyo, Washington and the ...