In the final days of the Pacific War 77 years ago, the Imperial Japanese Army was preparing to fight a decisive final battle on Japan’s mainland. One relic near a bathing beach in Tateyama, Chiba ...

That's a Chevrolet engine in the Shinyo. It's actually backwards right now, and was clearly removed at some point after the war ended. When the war started, the Japanese took over a Chevrolet factory ...

Japan’s Shinyo motorboats were fast, cheaply built suicide craft designed to ram Allied ships and detonate large explosive charges on impact. The transcript describes how Japan expanded special attack ...

A life-size model of a "Shinyo" suicide motorboat of the former Imperial Japanese Navy is seen in the Shingaego district of Kawatana, Nagasaki Prefecture, in this Nov. 7, 2021, file photo.

A Japanese Shinyo, or kamikaze boat, perhaps one of the rarest of all World War II killing machines, will soon be on display at Mobile's Battleship Park. This is believed to be one of just three ...

Tales of the notorious kamikaze pilots, who crashed their explosives-laden aircraft into enemy ships, have survived long beyond their deployment in World War II. But, less commonly known are the ...