The Mikasa is a perfect place for history buffs to learn about this important part of Japanese history. On the QT Directions: A 13-minute walk from Yokosuka-chuo Station, via the east exit. 82-19 ...

A massive flag that rippled above a Japanese battleship more than 110 years ago is back aboard a warship in Yokosuka. Bill Koehler presented it to a Japanese heritage society last month in a ...

This article was originally published with the title “ The New Japanese Battleship Mikasa ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 86 No. 19 (May 1902), p. 326 doi:10.1038 ...

SINKING OF THE MIKASA.; Believed Her Own Powder Blew Up Battleship. Share full article. Nov. 24, 1905. Credit... The New York Times Archives.

In 1910, Chile bought a battleship. Fifty years later, Chester Nimitz ensured that parts of that ship would complete the restoration of the Japanese battleship Mikasa, Togo’s flagship at the ...

A painting depicts the Japanese battleship Mikasa in action against the Russian fleet at Port Arthur (now the Lüshunkou District of China) during the 1904-05 Russo-Japanese War.

In fact, this operation was the only battleship-on-battleship victory of the war. The Washington took out the massive Japanese dreadnought Kirishima in 1942. This unprecedented victory happened ...