Join us as we delve into the intense and lesser-known battle of Peleliu, where Japanese tanks played a pivotal role in the ...

Japanese tanks during a live-fire exercise at the foot of Mount Fuji, August 22, 2019. Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images Japan built a large and capable armored force to counter the Soviets during the Cold ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The Type 60’s light armor protection and small amount of ammunition was part and parcel of the small tank destroyer’s mission—ambush. First fielded in the early 1960s ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Rather than duking it out one-on-one with tanks, the Type 60 was better suited to shoot and scoot fights. Aided by its relatively squat profile, the Type 60 could lie ...

Japan built a large and capable armored force to counter the Soviets during the Cold War. But a rising China poses a new challenge, and Japan is changing how it designs and uses its armor. See more ...