The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) has commissioned the fifth of its Taigei-class diesel-electric attack ...

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 ...

Key Points and Summary - Japan's Sōryū-class diesel-electric attack submarines are some of the most advanced and stealthy non-nuclear subs in the world. -Named after mythical dragons, these boats are ...

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

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...