These changes have given the Kaga the appearance of an aircraft carrier. However, the Japanese government has been careful to avoid calling its modified Izumo-class destroyers aircraft carriers ...

The warship's namesake arises from Kaga Province, an administrative area of Japan that was abolished in the late 1800s. On ...

The name of the ship has already been criticised in China because it shares its name with an imperial warship that bombed Shanghai in the 1930s The helicopter carrier has been upgraded to carry F-35B ...