Japan's decision to convert its helicopter-carrying destroyers into aircraft carriers came amid China 's expansion of its warship fleet—now the largest in the world by hull numbers —and its ...

The Izumo-class Kaga might sound familiar to World War II historians. That's because it shares a name with another aircraft carrier in the then-Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN). The Kaga was the third ...

Japan has taken a significant step in bolstering its military power with the launch of its first aircraft carrier since World War II, the JS Kaga. This modernized vessel, originally a helicopter ...

The region was a key area for th​e build-up of forces for Burma and in range of Japanese bombers. At the end of March 1942, a large Japanese naval force, including aircraft carriers ...

On March 19, 1945, the USS Franklin was devastated by a brutal Japanese airstrike just off the coast of Japan, leaving her heavily damaged and burning. With much of her crew killed or forced ...