The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force said it is building up defense capabilities to enhance deterrence and response.

Key Points - Japan's Taigei-class ("Big Whale") diesel-electric attack submarines, with four completed by 2025 including the recently commissioned JS Raigei, represent a significant leap in ...

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

The first female student was admitted to Japan's national naval submarine academy Wednesday after the end of a ban on women on the country's submarines. Saki Takenouchi, 26, entered the academy in a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Japan took the unusual step Monday of announcing that it had carried out the drills, which also involved two destroyers and a helicopter carrier. p pulse Follow TOKYO — A Japanese submarine ...