Named after the former Japanese province of Musashi, she was one of three Yamato-class battleships constructed for the Imperial Japanese Navy beginning in the late 1930s. These would prove to be ...

IJN Yamato and IJN Musashi; their 18-inch guns could fire a 1.5-ton shell 26 miles. By comparison, the largest American battleships had 16-inch guns which could fire a 1.35-ton shell for 20 miles – ...

Musashi was one of four planned Yamato-class battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), beginning in the late 1930s. The Yamato-class ships were the heaviest and most powerfully armed ...

Pandemic restrictions happened 'at a sensitive time when [they were] beginning to become interested in sexuality,' says ...

The German aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin is often cited as one of the worst aircraft carriers in history. Designed by ...

TOKYO — A joint U.S.-Japan naval drill has been canceled after a Japanese sailor went missing following a weekend fire aboard a minesweeper that eventually sank. The U.S. and Japanese navies ...

PETALING JAYA: The National Heart Institute (IJN) has launched i-Pharmabot, the nation’s first Automated Dispensing Medication System (ADMS). “While the technology behind i-Pharmabot is ...

Tokyo (AP) — Japanese Princess Yuriko, the wife of wartime Emperor Hirohito’s brother and the oldest member of the imperial family, has died after her health deteriorated recently, palace ...

More than 80 years after it was sunk by Japanese forces during World War II, the U.S. Navy said Monday that the wreckage of the destroyer USS Edsall has been found at the bottom of Indian Ocean.