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

Designers of the Yamato intended for this monster battleship to defeat any counterpart from the United States Navy. But the advent of aircraft carriers ensured that no such battle would ever occur.

Four Chinese naval vessels were spotted transiting from the East China Sea to the Philippine Sea, the Japanese military said.

The U.S. Navy can learn much from the Russo-Japanese War—and from dueling interpretations of that conflict by naval theorists Alfred Thayer Mahan and Julian S. Corbett. Foreign observers are ...

For six months following its surprise attack on the American fleet at Pearl Harbor, the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) had dominated the war in the Pacific. But 4 June 1942 would see the tide turn ...