Summary and Key Points: Japan’s Taigei-class “Big Whale” submarines are portrayed as a generational step beyond the ...

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 ...

During World War II, Japan developed one of the most ambitious naval weapons of the conflict—the I-400 Sen-Toku class submarine carriers. These massive submarines, the largest of WW II, were designed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s military said it dispatched a surveillance plane and a navy ship Tuesday after spotting a Russian submarine ...

What You Need To Know: Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) launched its fifth Taigei-class submarine, JS Chogei, as part of a planned fleet of eight advanced diesel-electric attack submarines.

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 ...

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 ...

TOKYO/SYDNEY (Reuters) - Japan will get the chance to pursue an unprecedented military export deal when its defense and foreign ministers meet their Australian counterparts in Tokyo next month. Japan ...

TOKYO — 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 Kilo-class ...