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When a US Submarine Smashed a Rare Japanese Battleship
On her third war patrol in the Pacific, the USS Sealion II ... Among the targets was Kongō, one of Japan’s most formidable battleships, known as the Indestructible Diamond—a seemingly ...
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Top 20 Famous Military Ships
From ancient triremes to modern nuclear submarines, join us as we explore the most legendary warships that shaped naval history! These vessels didn't just participate in battles - they changed the ...
Hegseth vows to strengthen alliance with Japan as he joins Iwo Jima memorial service
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth praised Saturday the friendship and trust that his country and Japan have developed.
USS Scranton, Pacific Fleet’s oldest fast-attack sub, gifted with storied game of Navy legend
The crew of the Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarine USS Scranton (SSN 756) received the storied O’Kane cribbage board ...
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Japan backs close security ties with India, South Korea in Indo-Pacific
NEW DELHI, March 25 (Reuters) - Japan has said that it backed close security cooperation with South Korea and India in the Indo-Pacific ... since the end of World War II," Japan's Ministry ...
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Taiwan to channel World War Two spirit to bolster response to China's threats
World War Two, and the full-scale Japanese invasion of China in 1937 that preceded the start of the world war in 1939, is a touchy historical subject in both China and Taiwan. Sign up here.
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A Stroll Through the Indo-Pacific, the Most Important Region in the World
In this episode, we get into what’s driving the Indo-Pacific’s security dynamics, from China’s threats to Taiwan to AUKUS and the Quad to stability (or lack thereof) on the Korean Peninsula to bases ...
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A Plea for Justice for Japan’s So-Called Comfort Women
Mina Watanabe has made it her life’s work to tell the stories of the women who were sexually enslaved by the Japanese military before and during World War II ... in the Asia-Pacific region.
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Volunteer searching for WWII dead in Japanese caves unearths remains of hundreds of people
Takamatsu Gushiken turns on a headlamp and enters a cave buried in Okinawa's jungle. He gently runs his fingers through the gravel until two pieces of bone emerge. These are from the skulls, he ...
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Alexis Dudden on the firebombing of Tokyo and on post-war struggles to keep it remembered
As Nakano Koichi of Sophia University puts it, Japan’s “master narrative” of the Pacific war “has curiously erased agency from both sides, as if the war was an unfortunate natural disaster ...
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Japan backs close security ties with India, South Korea in Indo-Pacific
NEW DELHI: Japan has said that it backed close security cooperation with South Korea and India in the Indo-Pacific ... environment since the end of World War II," Japan's Ministry of Defence ...
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Temple bells part of scrap metal used to fuel Japan’s war effort
In 1941, when the Japanese government was salvaging metal from wherever it could for the looming Pacific War, the nation’s largest Buddhist group readily handed over its temple bells for the ...