On February 17, 1944, the Japanese destroyer Maikaze, evacuating troops from Truk, encountered the formidable USS New Jersey, ...

On October 14, 1944, the skies over Formosa erupted as Japanese aircraft launched a fierce assault on the American fleet, ...

Launched in 1940 and commissioned into the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), the battleship Yamato stands as the largest battleship ever built—and one of the most iconic and formidable warships ever ...

Though officially known as Hashima, the island is sometimes called Gunkanjima, or “Battleship Island,” because of its resemblance to the warship Tosa. Last year marked ... the most densely populated ...

The Japanese island of Hashima was ... the island is sometimes called Gunkanjima, or Battleship Island, because of its resemblance to the warship Tosa. Last year was the 50th anniversary of ...

which was from the original battleship USS Wisconsin, launched in 1898. Two years after the ship was sold for scrap in 1922, the bell was purchased by Frederick Underwood and donated to Tosa FD ...

comes from the fact that the island is shaped like the battleship Tosa. The mine, which closed in 1974, was registered as one of the “Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution” in a UNESCO World ...

In 1941, as the Imperial Japanese Navy was in the midst of its dash across the Pacific islands, it commissioned the battleship Yamato as its flagship. Over 80 years later, the Yamato remains the ...

The colloquial name arose from the seawall-surrounded island’s resemblance to the Japanese battleship Tosa when viewed from the sea, especially at a distance. The resemblance was so uncanny that ...