Japan is significantly bolstering its naval power projection capabilities by converting its two Izumo-class helicopter ...

Japanese media revealed on July 6 that Japan plans to transfer its Abukuma-class destroyer escorts to the Philippines, ...

Japan's military history has undergone a dramatic transformation, from its early innovations with the first aircraft carrier ...

The HMS Prince of Wales may conduct “cross-deck drills” with JS Kaga using aircraft carrier-based F-35Bs. If realized, it ...

Japan’s upgrading of a warship to become its first aircraft carrier since the Second World War has been criticised in China, raising questions about whether it violates the country’s post-war ...

Japan showed off the newly upgraded JS Kaga in April. Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Another helicopter carrier, the lead-in-class Izumo, is also being modified to carry F-35 jets.

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Along a busy four-lane road in Kaga, Japan, situated between strip malls and rice fields, is a firewood business called Kuberu, meaning “to stoke a fire ...

February 3, 2025: In early 2017 Japan put into service a second 27,000 ton destroyer, the Kaga DDH 184 that looks exactly like an aircraft carrier. Actually, it looks like an LPH, an amphibious ship ...

Modification work turning Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force helicopter destroyer JS Kaga into an F-35B aircraft carrier are nearing completion at a dock in Kure City, Hiroshima Prefecture, located ...

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