Japan now operates five cutting-edge Taigei-class submarines, in addition to its 12 Soryu-class and 6 Oyashio-class vessels.

Japan has commissioned its fifth Taigei-class diesel‑electric attack submarine, JS Chogei. The submarine was formally ...

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 ...

On March 6, the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) commissioned the fourth Hibiki-class auxiliary ocean surveillance ...

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 ...

While it’s been almost a century since the last kill by an American submarine, other navies have done so more recently.

Japan took the unusual step Monday of announcing that it had carried out the drills, which also involved two destroyers and a helicopter carrier. Japan took the unusual step Monday of announcing that ...

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 ...

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 — 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 ...