Over the next six years, Abe would see Japan’s navy launch the carrier Izumo, its first of two modern Izumo-class helicopter carriers capable of handling new Japanese V-22 Ospreys as well as ...

Launched in 1940 and commissioned into the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), the battleship Yamato ... the Yamato was no shrinking violet in the annals of modern naval warfare. Displacing 71,659 ...

This led the Navy to institute a temporary lockdown of sailors in Japan, banning the drinking alcohol and any nonessential travel off base. Around the same time, a civilian worker, who was also a ...