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.

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.

YOKOSUKA--A U.S. Navy strike group’s flagship aircraft carrier left its Japanese home port on Thursday, wrapping up nearly nine years of deployment in the Indo-Pacific, where it served a key ...

TOKYO/TAIPEI--A Chinese aircraft carrier entered Japan ... naval survey vessels entered Japanese waters, shortly after an airspace breach. In July, a Japanese navy destroyer made a rare entry ...