With minimal opposition, the Japanese Imperial Navy killed or wounded approximately four thousand American sailors and soldiers on December 7, 1941. Many American ships were sunk and damaged.

Midget submarines served as part of the Imperial Japanese Navy throughout the war, seeing action far beyond Pearl Harbor. In fact, the Type A (50 were built during the war) ...

Unlike the U.S. Navy, the Imperial Japanese Navy took notice of the first exercise. It watched the1932 attack and studied it closely.

Leyte Gulf: The Clash That Decimated the Japanese Navy. In late October 1944, the United States and Japan fought what was, by the most useful metrics, the largest naval battle in history.

Matt Alt writes about the death of the Japanese manga and anime artist Leiji Matsumoto, ... The sight of the former Imperial Navy’s pride and joy literally rising again might at first seem a ...

In this photo provided by the U.S. Navy, the USS Yorktown lists heavily to port after being struck by Japanese bombers and torpedo planes in the Battle of Midway on June 4, 1942.

The Japanese Imperial Navy's Akagi was surveyed along with two other aircraft carriers by a crew aboard the Exploration Vessel Nautilus, according to the nonprofit group Ocean Exploration Trust.

High-tech 3D images and video showed two doomed WWII Japanese submarines 2,600 feet underwater off Hawaii. Nonprofit group Ocean Exploration Trust explored the wreck of Imperial Japanese Navy ...