Lieutenant Stanley "Swede" Vejtasa soared through the war-torn skies over the Santa Cruz Islands in his F4F Wildcat. It was ...

This video explores whether a single U.S. supercarrier with its modern aircraft, weapons, and defenses—could stand alone against the entire Imperial Japanese Navy. Donald Trump Gives DOGE Update ...

The launch ceremony for the Sichuan at the Hudong-Zhonghua Shipyard, Dec. 29, 2024.

As geopolitical tides shift in East Asia, a new form of strategic signaling is taking center stage — aircraft carriers. The ...

The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) now operates three aircraft carriers, with a fourth nuclear‐powered vessel under development—an effort aimed squarely at matching US supercarriers ... the USA, Japan ...

The USS Carl Vinson, one of the most formidable warships in the U.S. Navy’s arsenal, sailed through the narrow lanes of the ...

What the American military calls ‘a-spectrum dominance’ includes 9,000 Abrahams tanks, nine ‘supercarrier’ battle groups ... as Paul Kennedy once detected on the horizon, be it Japan, the European ...

For centuries, residents in central Japan have chronicled a mysterious natural phenomenon in winter. They see its disappearance as a bad omen. By Martin Fackler and Hisako Ueno Reporting from Suwa ...

By Martin Fackler Reporting from Tokyo Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth wrapped up his first official visit to Asia on Sunday by offering reassurances to Japan that President Trump wants a ...

In 2024, the number of babies born in Japan fell to a record low for the ninth year in a row. With about 1.6 million deaths and 720,988 births, there were about two deaths for every new baby born.

I write about economics, markets and policymaking throughout Asia. Shigeru Ishiba, Japan's prime minister and president of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). Hearing that Japanese Prime Minister ...