During World War II, Japan stunned the world with a top-secret innovation: the I-400-class submarine, the first and only ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Unfortunately for officials in Tokyo, the Japanese Navy had struck a powerful blow, but not a crippling one. The bombardment failed to hit the repair facilities and ...

Key point: Tokyo’s mini-subs often didn’t work as well as planned. Australia was situated considerably closer to the action in the Pacific than the United States during World War II. Japanese aircraft ...

In the bleak final months of 1942, even the most optimistic US commanders quivered at the thought of the Japanese Navy’s potential for destruction. Their nightmares soon turned into a harrowing ...

The remains of an Australian ship sunk by a Japanese submarine in World War II has now been discovered by a team of archaeologists 77 years after its tragic end. Researchers aboard the CSIRO research ...

An expedition to test a new seafloor mapping technology has given the world a startlingly clear image of a World War II Japanese submarine that split in half when the U.S. sunk all captured Japanese ...