In March 1943, Japanese sailors were thrown to the decks as waves crashed against their battered ships, while Allied aircraft appeared to retreat—but the worst was yet to come. As the convoy ...

In October, Minister of Defence Minoru Kihara had to apologize after a Japanese sailor was forced to meet a superior accused of sexually harassing her. In December, a Japanese court found three ...

After the cross-deck exercise, Japanese sailors and airmen cheered along with U.S. Marines of Fighter Squadron 242. On October 3, two U.S. Marine F-35B fighters did something utterly common ...