While it’s been almost a century since the last kill by an American submarine, other navies have done so more recently.

Key Points - Japan's Taigei-class ("Big Whale") diesel-electric attack submarines, with four completed by 2025 including the recently commissioned JS Raigei, represent a significant leap in ...

On March 6, the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) commissioned the fourth Hibiki-class auxiliary ocean surveillance ...

The introduction of the Type 12 long-range cruise missile will be paramount for the JMSDF. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has been contracted to mass-produce long-range cruise missiles for Japan’s ...

A long-lost legendary Naval submarine has finally been found — more than 80 years after it was torpedoed by Japanese forces. The USS Harder was found resting 3,000 feet below the ocean near the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The fifth of a planned eight Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) attack submarines was launched last Friday at a ceremony at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ Kobe Shipyard. The future JS Chogei – ...

TOKYO — 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 Kilo-class ...