A Japanese pilot slammed his Zero fighter plane into the USS Missouri and ignited a fireball on April 11, 1945, during the Battle of Okinawa. The suicide attack instantly killed the pilot, but none of ...

Designers of the Yamato intended for this monster battleship to defeat any counterpart from the United States Navy. But the advent of aircraft carriers ensured that no such battle would ever occur.

On the ground, the fashion landscape is changing. Japan’s luxury fashion market has remained largely robust despite a wider downturn, though Japanese tourists are travelling abroad much less than they ...

The prime minister was not. His government is making a rapid transition from green to battleship grey by now placing defence at the heart of its approach to technology and manufacturing.

For two years, Musashi patrolled the Pacific, but she struggled to find the decisive battleship duel she was built for. Her ultimate test came at the Battle of Leyte Gulf in 1944, where Japanese ...

Japan’s navy gambles on a decisive victory against the United States to turn the tide of World War II. Instead, Musashi, its top-secret super battleship, ends up at the bottom of the ocean.

In the early hours of November 21, 1944, her radar picked up a Japanese naval formation in the Formosa Strait, unknowingly locking onto Admiral Takeo Kurita’s First Strike Force, fresh from Brunei.