One way the Japanese decided to counter the threat was by using pilots known as kamikaze, which means "divine wind," to fly planes directly into ships. In a culture that embraced the idea of ...

A bomb disposal team from the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force later confirmed that the explosion was caused by an American ...

Japan's local newspaper reported on Thursday that the SDF destroyer Sazanami entered the Taiwan Strait from the East China Sea on Wednesday morning to send a message to Beijing, spending more than ...

One such destroyer was the ... Nine more waves of kamikaze attacks hit the fleet off of Okinawa before the battle came to an end. Almost 2,000 Japanese pilots would willingly lose their lives ...

Japan's Defense Ministry and lawmakers are reacting to what appears to be unauthorized drone footage of a Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer. Ministry officials who have studied the footage say ...

The Japanese destroyer Suzutsuki briefly entered Chinese territorial waters for approximately 20 minutes in July 2024. This ...

The Russian Defense Ministry has summoned the US military attache and pointed out the unprofessional actions of the crew of the US Navy’s destroyer ... in the Sea of Japan, the military agency ...

USS Johnston (DD-557) The Johnston, a Fletcher-class destroyer ... After shelling Japanese positions on Iwo Jima and Okinawa, where she took a direct hit from a kamikaze, the West Virginia ...