Japan was one of the greatest naval powers during World War II when it fielded over 20 aircraft carriers until the end of the war. However, the country scrapped all of its carriers after its ...

Originally designed as a battleship, the Imperial Japanese Navy's Kaga was later converted into a pioneering aircraft carrier that played a central role in shaping Japan’s naval air strategy. Its ...

The Kaga was built as the second of Japan's Izumo-class helicopter-carrying destroyers and entered service in 2017. It bears the name of the World War II-era aircraft carrier Kaga, which took part ...

As Łukasz Michalik, a journalist, explained, the modernization of the JS Kaga means that the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force has its first aircraft carrier since World War II. The first landing ...