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 ...

This is Kaga's first deployment since modifications to operate F-35Bs, including a redesigned bow akin to U.S. amphibious ...

and as a result is a de facto aircraft carrier, the first to be operated by the Japanese military since World War II. That fact was noted as JS Kaga made a port of call visit to Pearl Harbor on ...

which helped to pinpoint the locations of the Kaga and Akagi. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command The Akagi aircraft carrier was sunk during the Battle of Midway, during which hundreds of ...