During World War II, a small American destroyer escort quietly destroyed Japan’s final submarine scouting line in the Pacific ...

Japan has commissioned a new hunter-killer submarine that can operate in shallow seas to protect borders. Called Raigei or Thunder Whale, the diesel-electric submarine is initially planned to operate ...

TOKYO (AP) — 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 ...

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 ...

Submarines mauled shipping and threatened the survival of many nations in the second world war. One way to fight back was ...

Chogei , the fifth Taigei-class submarine on order for the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, seen here at its launch ceremony. (JMSDF) Japan has launched another Taigei-class diesel-electric ...

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 ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's defence minister criticised China on Monday for sailing an advanced stealthy nuclear submarine close to disputed islands claimed by Japan and China, saying the action had ...