Exploiting a loophole in the Washington Naval Treaty, the Imperial Japanese Navy secretly built IJN ... in the water—Japan’s outlaw aircraft carrier, unlike anything else at sea.

Laid down on December 1, 1941, and commissioned on August 16, 1943, the Essex-class aircraft carrier ... fitting for the carrier that once combatted the Imperial Japanese Navy.

More than 90 years ago, United States Navy and Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carriers met as adversaries in the waters of the Philippine Sea for the fifth and final time. Earlier this month ...

NISHINOOMOTE, Kagoshima Prefecture--Wreckage of a wartime Japanese aircraft salvaged ... was likely a Type 97 carrier-based attack bomber used by the Imperial Japanese Navy.

Yokosuka, located south of Tokyo, is the only overseas homeport for a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier. The George Washington had been previously stationed there from 2008 to 2015. Following its ...