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

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 ...

Small in displacement but relentless in mission, this American warship became a persistent threat to Japanese submarines ...

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 ...

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.

December 31, 2024: China has much to fear from west Pacific nations South Korea and Japan combining their submarine fleets with the 25 or more U.S. Navy submarines based in the region. Japan has 22 ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan is ready to match European rivals and build a fleet of submarines for Canberra entirely at Australian shipyards, a senior Japanese official said on Tuesday, after stumbling in ...

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 ...

Professor Hugh White takes a more measured position in his later Interpreter post advising against ‘Option J’, but this reply focuses on the Fairfax piece because it is here that... If Australia is to ...