Japan is procuring compact, missile-laden multi-mission frigates at a rapid pace to deter China and Russia effectively in the ...

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For instance, the JMSDF’s Soryu submarine, the lead vessel of the class, shares its name with the IJN (Imperial Japanese Navy) carrier Soryu.

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Six months later, over a three-day period in early June 1942, air crews from carriers Enterprise, Hornet and Yorktown sink Soryu, Hiryu, Kaga and Akagi – four of the six Imperial Japanese Navy ...

Lithium-ion batteries The JMSDF said that the Taigei-class is equipped with lithium-ion batteries in place of lead-acid ones, just like the final two Soryu-class boats for the JMSDF: Oryu (SS 511) and ...

Masamitsu Yoshioka, the last known survivor among about 770 crew members who manned the Japanese airborne armada that attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, has died. He was 106. His death was ...

He joined the Imperial Japanese Navy when he was 18. Yoshioka family photo, via Japan Forwatd He participated in the attack on Wake Island on Dec. 11, 1941, and a raid in the Indian Ocean early in ...

“Now I think of the men who were on board those ships we torpedoed. I think of the people who died because of me. They were young men, just like we were,” said Mr. Yoshioka in a 2023 interview.

When Pearl Harbor came into view, black smoke was already rising from the U.S. ships hit by the first wave of Japan’s surprise attack. The crew of a Nakajima B5N2 torpedo bomber readied for its run.