Off the coast of Japan 80 years ago, a U.S. naval captain ordered his battleship to hold a burial at sea for a kamikaze pilot ...

The tight, dim corridors of a submarine echo with the sounds of survival. It’s not a scene from a Hollywood film—it’s The ...

The U.S. Navy can learn much from the Russo-Japanese War—and from dueling interpretations of that conflict by naval theorists ...

The third shell was found Feb. 8 and removed March 25 from a site near an elementary school in the Ozato district of Nanjo ...

A submarine that sunk during World War II has been discovered off the Pacific Coast, Russia's Pacific Fleet said Monday. The ...

Newsweek's weekly update maps the locations of 10 aircraft carriers in the Indo-Pacific region as of April 11.

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

(John Narewski/U.S. Navy) The Navy formally unleashed its ... is the service’s first vessel to be named after the state since the famed World War II-era battleship Iowa (BB-61).

Jenny Chan heard frequent tales from her grandmother about the atrocities committed by the Japanese against the Chinese people during World War II. Chan thought she was delusional.

Australia’s navy has long played a crucial role in the defence of the island continent, whose 34,000km (21,000-mile) coastline is surrounded by the vast Pacific, Southern and Indian oceans and ...

IWO-TO, Japan (AP) — Japan’s Emperor Naruhito visited Iwo Jima on Monday and paid tribute to thousands of Japanese and Americans who died in one of World War II’s bloodiest battles.