While Japan avoids calling these ships “aircraft carriers” due to constitutional ... the test team will make recommendations ...

Indeed, Japan’s inability to provide sufficient pilots and escort carriers made it extremely ... seem likely to hold for the foreseeable future, carrier captains and sub skippers will still ...

The San Diego-based USS Carl Vinson will join aircraft carriers from France and Japan for a major exercise in the Philippine Sea beginning Saturday, the Navy announced.

See the ex-USS John F. Kennedy, the Navy's last conventionally powered aircraft carrier, which was in a class of its own.

They believe that it could be refitted to support fighter jets if Japan's post-war pacifist constitution is changed in the future ... to 'Izumo', this light aircraft carrier dressed as an ...