Japan is showing off the first changes made to one of its helicopter-carrying destroyers to turn it into a light aircraft ...

Stunning images recently released show the stealth fighter F-35B performing landings and takeoffs on the deck of the JS Kaga, Japan’s first aircraft carrier to be operated since World War II.

These changes have given the Kaga the appearance of an aircraft carrier. However, the Japanese government has been careful to avoid calling its modified Izumo-class destroyers aircraft carriers ...

Both the JS Izumo and the JS Kaga were announced ... as the Article 9 of the Japanese constitution forbids offensive weapons, including aircraft carriers. The defensive focus of the vessels ...

An F-35B Lightning II aircraft executes a vertical landing on Japan Maritime Self-Defense Izumo-class multi-functional destroyer JS Kaga (DDH 184 ... class destroyer carriers, with JS Izumo ...

with the conditions the pilots will be facing on Japanese ships changing from those on the British carriers. Izumo-class multi-purpose destroyers, led by JS Kaga, have been modified for Lightning ...