For Japan, the IJN Soryu, IJN Kaga, and IJN Akagi each rose to meet them. (These are the most important events of World War II: a timeline. Here is a look at all of the naval vessels that fought ...

For instance, the JMSDF's Soryu submarine, the lead vessel of the class, shares its name with the IJN (Imperial Japanese Navy) carrier Soryu. That ship sank along with three other IJN carriers in ...

Yamamoto lived to fight another day, but in April 1943 he was assassinated by the U.S. Navy in a mission dubbed Operation Vengeance.After reading Japanese transmissions it was learned that the IJN ...