December 7th, 1941. Just before dawn, 270 miles northwest of Oahu, Hawaii, 181 Japanese fighters and bombers prepared...

In the Fall of 1941, the naval and air base at Pearl Harbor and the escalations on Oahu, represented the greatest con...

Though they had not delivered the finishing stroke at Pearl Harbor, the Japanese had put the Americans and the Britis...

Japanese admirals stuck rigidly to the view that submarines were first and foremost an adjunct to the battle fleet. E...

Even though Japanese war plans were habitually best-case and not worst-case, the military junta on the home island we...

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese were victorious in their endeavor to control as much of the western Pa...

The Americans were now ready to go on the offensive in the Pacific, but where? Early in the summer of 1942, the inter...

The Japanese war machine, checked and forced to change its plans for the first time at Coral Sea and decisively repel...

In December 1941, within hours of the destruction of the United States battle fleet at Pearl Harbor, Japanese forces ...

By the fall of 1944, the harsh reality of the war in the Pacific became apparent to the Japanese high command. Finall...