Hideaki Anno is creating a new Space Battleship Yamato film. What is the enduring legacy of this series in Japan? Part of the ...

If the Battle of the Philippine Sea had played out differently, Japan's navy might have been decimated by June 1944. One of the most decisive battles of the Second World War could have ended up ...

With minimal opposition, the Japanese Imperial Navy killed or wounded approximately four thousand American sailors and soldiers on December 7, 1941. Many American ships were sunk and damaged.

The ship was downed after an intensive battle with the Imperial Japanese Navy in 1942 while under the command of Lt. Joshua Nix. Accounts report that a Japanese carrier-based plane had spotted the ...

Fuchida was the Imperial Japanese Navy commander of the 350 military aircraft, including fighter jets and bombers, that took off from six carriers on Dec. 7 (Dec. 8 Japan time), 1941, and attacked ...

On a cloudless day off the Philippines coast, Shigetoshi Kaneko held onto floating debris while adrift, clinging to hope ...

After the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, aircraft carriers were some of the only remaining American large warships in the Pacific theater. As a result ...

The Imperial Japanese Navy attacked Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941, but Pearl Harbor was only part of a much bigger Japanese operation that day. On Dec. 7, the Japanese not only sank the U.S. Navy's ...

The roads now are famed as a cherry blossom viewing spot, but the area used to be a runway at a former Imperial Japanese Navy base. Shigeyuki Shimonaiji, who is now 86, was 8 in 1945.

The infamous submarine USS Grayback was the scourge of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) back in its day. However, she met an untimely fate during the war, and her wreckage was only found less than ...