Launched in 1919, Japan’s battleship Nagato was a floating fortress, eight 16-inch guns, 32,000 tons of steel, and Admiral ...

Only one of the Imperial Japanese Navy’s first class battleships survived to see the end of the Pacific War. As the U.S. fleet entered Tokyo Bay, some officers worried that fanatics aboard Nagato ...

After five years of intense combat in the Pacific Theatre against the US Navy, the Japanese battleship Nagato readied her guns outside Yokosuka, Japan. American fighters were fast approaching, ...

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii — A Japanese navy flag that flew on the battleship of the man who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor was donated Thursday to the National Park Service. Dianne Hall of Salisbury, ...

The Pacific Theater of World War II was a high-stakes naval engagement notable for its island-hopping and amphibious nature. Both belligerents, Imperial Japan and the United States, fielded capable ...

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In the Pacific off Bikini Atoll, 200 feet below the surface, sit a dozen radioactive warships. The fleet includes the aircraft carrier the U.S.S. Saratoga, the Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Nagato ...

Battleships were enormous investments of national treasure. They did not merely represent national power; they were the physical manifestations of that power. They embodied the prestige of the nation, ...

In November 21, 1944, the US submarine USS Sealion came up a group of Japanese warships in the Taiwan Strait. Over several hours early that morning, Sealion attacked the Japanese ships, sinking the ...