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	Japanese Navy Ship Types--Kaiten type Human Torpedoes
		Proposals for human torpedoes were made in 1943 and were approved in early 1944, initially with provision for the survival of the operator.
		On 20 November 1944, a submarine-launched "Kaiten" penetrated the U.S. anchorage at Ulithi, in the Caroline Islands, and sank the oiler USS Mississinewa (AO-59).
		Japanese "kanji" character painted on the fairwater of "Kaiten" number 26 is "yoko", probably a unit marking for Yokosuka naval base.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-fornv/japan/japtp-ss/kaiten.htm (788 words)

	Imperial Japanese Navy information - Search.com
		The origins of the Imperial Japanese Navy trace back to early interactions with nations on the Asian continent, beginning in the early medieval period and reaching a peak of activity during the 16th and 17th centuries at a time of cultural exchange with European powers during the Age of Discovery.
		The Imperial Japanese Navy took possession of the island and quelled opposition movements between March to October 1895, and the islands continued to be a Japanese colony until 1945.
		Japanese armoured cruiser Nisshin in the Mediterranean (Malta, 1919).
	www.search.com /reference/Imperial_Japanese_Navy (5622 words)

	Saxon (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Japanese cooperation is all the more surprising given that both British and American historians have characterized Japan’s role in the First World War as that of a “jackal state,” one that took a lion’s share of the kill after only minimally assisting the cause.
		The Japanese navy relieved the Akashi in June 1917 with the armored cruiser Izumo and reinforced the Malta squadron with the destroyers Kashi, Hinoki, Momo, and Yanagi.
		Japanese destroyers’ ratio of time at sea to time in port was the highest of any allied warships during the war: Japanese warships were under way 72 percent of the time.
	www.nwc.navy.mil /press/Review/2000/winter/art3-w00.htm (8958 words)

	THE EVOLUTION OF JAPANESE NAVAL TACTICS
		The Japanese ships would meanwhile continue on their circular course, so that within a minimum amount of time alt the ships in the Japanese column could bring their guns to bear upon the head of the enemy column while only a few of the enemy's ships could concentrate against the circling Japanese.
		The navies gum sights were calibrated for the ballistics of the gun system and had been fitted with telescopes to improve their performance.
		The major deficiency in the navy was the incomplete understanding of the importance of the change of range associated with the relative motion of the firing ship and the target.
	www.angelfire.com /wi/nickc/russo-japanese/navy/tac/jap_tac.html (2056 words)

	CCC - Battle of Midway
		Japanese intelligence intercepted the message and on 16 May they broadcast a message in their JN25b code that "AF" was running short of water.
		Japanese dive-bombers and torpedo planes from the surviving carrier Hiryu exacted a modicum of revenge in late morning by disabling the Yorktown.
		In the confusion caused by the appearance of the U.S. submarine Tambor, the cruisers Mikuma and Mogami collided.
	www.ccc.nps.navy.mil /si/june02/midway.asp (2012 words)

	Navy League of the United States - Citizens in Support of the Sea Services
		Although Japan was completely disarmed at the end of World War II, the Self Defense Forces were established in 1952 as the result of several domestic and international developments--including the outbreak of the Cold War, the Korean War, and Japan's regained independence upon the conclusion of the San Francisco Peace Treaty.
		The combination of the Self Defense Fleet and the Regional Districts has provided the U.S. Navy considerable operational assistance, especially in the ASW arena and logistic support in the western reaches of the Pacific theater near Japan.
		Shifts in Japan's public opinion also led to new roles for the SDF, since the Japanese people understood the SDF's versatile capability also should contribute to responses to large-scale disasters and other crises, just as they would continue to contribute to the regional and global stability that is essential for free sea trade.
	www.navyleague.org /sea_power/dec_02_31.php (1641 words)

	Imperial Japanese Navy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The origins of the Imperial Japanese Navy trace back to early interactions with nations on the Asian continent, beginning in the early medieval period and reaching a peak of activity during the 16th and 17th centuries at a time of cultural exchange with European powers during the Age of Discovery.
		Japanese armoured cruiser Nisshin in the Mediterranean (Malta, 1919).
		The Japanese pilot corps at the beginning of the war were of high caliber as compared to their contemporaries around the world due to intense training practices and frontline experience in the Sino-Japanese War.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Imperial_Japanese_Navy (5854 words)

	Imperial Japanese Navy (Nihon Kaigun) - World War II Multimedia Database
		With the help of the British, who trained the Japanese to the point that all bridge orders were issued in English, a Japanese fleet was built in the early twentieth century.
		The Japanese Mitsubishi Type 00 fighter, codenamed Zeke by the Allies, was faster and more maneuverable than either the US Navy Grumman F4F Wildcat or the British Supermarine Spitfire Mark V. But by 1943, the Japanese would be losing their trained officer core while the Americans were gaining bitter and bloody experience in night fighting.
		At the end, it was the submarine that dealt the deathblow to the Imperial Japanese Navy.
	www.worldwar2database.com /html/kaigun.htm (732 words)

	Navy Times - Japanese officials to visit San Diego (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The mission’s visit is aimed at studying safety measures and emergency procedures in case of an accident involving a nuclear-powered vessel, the official said.
		In October 2005, the Navy announced the plan to deploy a Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in Japan for the first time in 2008.
		Last month, Japanese activists collected 146,000 new signatures on a petition against the plan, bringing the number of signatories to 470,000, city officials said.
	www.navytimes.com /story.php?f=1-292925-1682888.php (240 words)

	US Navy
		Since the 1920s the US Navy was based on the view that the Japanese Navy posed the main threat to the United States.
		Yamamoto's plan was eventually agreed by the Japanese Imperial Staff in the autumn and the strike force under the command of Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo sailed from the Kurile Islands on 26th November, 1941.
		However, the Japanese Navy had greater difficulty replacing her losses and found it difficult to provide supplies to the Japanese Army in the region.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /2WWusaN.htm (1801 words)

	The US Navy
		A strong Japanese thrust to occupy Midway Island was led by a four-carrier Mobile Force, supported by heavy units of the Japanese First Fleet.
		The Japanese attack on Midway was met by a greatly outnumbered U.S. carrier force composed of Task Force 17 with USS Yorktown (CV 5) and Task Force 16 with USS Hornet (CV 8) and USS Enterprise (CV 6).
		In the ensuing battle, the four large Japanese carriers were sunk, carrying with them 258 planes along with a high percentage of Japan's most highly trained and battle-experienced carrier pilots, a blow to Japan from which she could not recover.
	www.navy.mil /navydata/navy_legacy.asp?id=2 (838 words)

	Immigration...Japanese: Behind the Wire
		More ad hoc internments followed, and Japanese Americans throughout the West Coast began to be forced out of their jobs, subjected to warrantless military searches, and abused and attacked in public places.
		For the Japanese Americans who were forced into internment, the relocation process was a nightmare of dislocation and uncertainty.
		The traditional structure of the Japanese family, with its emphasis on close bonds and respect for elders, was undermined by the camps' informal social milieu, where children could play for hours unsupervised and young people ate their meals with their friends rather than their parents.
	memory.loc.gov /learn/features/immig/japanese4.html (1246 words)

	Japanese Navy
		This was more than either Italy and France but the Japanese Navy was unhappy with the agreement and was determined to compensate for these low numbers by producing the world's most powerful fighting ships.
		At the outbreak of the Second World War the Japanese Navy was disadvantaged by not possessing operational radar.
		It was a decisive victory for the Allies with the Japanese Navy losing four carriers, three battleships and ten cruisers.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /2WWnavyJ.htm (371 words)

	Navy Times - Japanese-American three-time war vet dies at 88
		He was finally allowed to enlist because the Army learned that he wrote and spoke Japanese fluently.
		He went into Army intelligence and was sent to the Pacific theater, where he interrogated Japanese prisoners in Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s headquarters.
		In 1944, Koyama took part in the invasion of the Philippines and was badly wounded during a kamikaze attack.
	www.navytimes.com /story.php?f=1-comnews-1641272.php (368 words)

	The Silent War against the Japanese Navy
		Monitoring Japanese naval communications, they were able to deduce from patterns alone that the entire fleet had sortied from Japan and was engaged in an exercise of massive proportions.
		The Japanese navy had even managed to call up all its reserve ships and personnel and send them to sea with the rest of the fleet, all with such secrecy that the U.S. naval attaché in Tokyo was unaware of anything unusual.
		Although the ability to read Japanese naval messages was expanding rapidly just before the battle of Midway, that less than fifty of the 280 ships later acknowledged to have been present were ever mentioned in JN-25 decrypts points to a subtle limitation as to what intelligence can be derived through cryptanalysts.
	www.ibiblio.org /pha/ultra/nwc-01.html (4004 words)

	Japanese Imperial Navy (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Imperial Japanese Navy had grown from a small force at the end of the 19th Century into the third largest fleet in the world by the end of World War I. Its brilliant victory over the Russians at Tsushima in 1905 provided confidence but also fostered damgerous delusions.
		But the Japanese, remembering the ease with which they had destroyed the Russians in 1904-5, believed that America lacked the will to fight a long war, and had sublime confidence in their own fighting ability.
		As Japanese destroyers were equipped with reload torpedoes they were often able to fool opponents into thinking that they had fired all their torpedoes.
	www.expage.com /army16 (630 words)

	Russo-Japanese War "Ramblings" (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Japanese started the war with two main shells: an AP with a 5 percent Shimose filling, and an HE with a 10 percent Shimose filling.
		Brown strongly criticizes the Royal Navy, which observed this war closely from the Japanese side, for failing to recognize the implications of the Japanese shell failures.
		Brown says that the evidence of hits on the Russians suggests that a high proportion of the Japanese shells fired were of this type, and that the number issued might have been up to three-quarters of the outfit of the Japanese ships (he provides no documentation for that estimate).
	www.gwpda.org /naval/rjwargun.htm (4059 words)

	Amazon.ca: A Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1941-1945: Books: Paul S. Dull (Site not responding. Last check: )
		What makes the book especially valuable to me is the subtext: the Japanese Navy had in essence intensely prepared for the wrong war to fight.
		Deeply absorbed in the Mahan doctrine of the decisive naval battle--a principle that emphasized destroying an enemy fleet in a grand engagement that effectively ends the conflict--Nihon Teikoku Kaigun was, by the outbreak of the Second World War, ready to confront the US fleet within the context of a short yet decisive campaign.
		Incidentally the Japanese navy didn't somehow begin in 1941 it's just convenient for the double speak of Dull to begin there.
	www.amazon.ca /Battle-History-Imperial-Japanese-1941-1945/dp/0870210971 (1026 words)

	Nihon Kaigun
		At the beginning of the Second World War, the Japanese Navy (or, in the Japanese language, Nihon Kaigun, or even Teikoku Kaigun, the Imperial Navy) was arguably the most powerful navy in the world.
		How and why this impressive force was eventually crushed by the U.S. Navy is a subject that has fascinated me practically forever.
		Operational histories of Japanese Submarines in WW II compiled by Bob Hackett and Sander Kingsepp.
	www.combinedfleet.com /kaigun.htm (1065 words)

	Japanes Landings at Zamboanga
		The particulars concerning the strength, the name of the commanding officer, the object of the landing, and the fighting by the Japanese units which landed at ZAMBOANGA, MINDANAO on 3 Mar 4, and other related matters.
		It appears that the chief motive which lead to the execution of this operation was due to the fact that a Japanese national, who had escaped from ZAMBOANGA, had informed the Headquarters of 3rd Southern Expeditionary Fleet of the sad plight of the Japanese nationals interned there.
		Sighted Japanese nationals at AYALA and led the land combat unit to the spot.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/documents/zambo.htm (1032 words)

	Japanese Navy
		The History of the Japanese Imperial navy, shown in dedicated website pages to Japanese Battleships, aircraft carriers and cruisers of the first world war and the second world war.
		The Japanese warship Takasago is passed by the royal yacht during the Coronation Review in 1902.
		This website is not part of any governmental body or official websites of the Japanese Navy.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /japanese.htm (671 words)

	Mechanisms of Imperial Japanese Navy Warships in 3-D
		Although Japanese warships were some of the most graceful warships built, photographic records and technical details of these ships are relatively scarce since a significant portion of this material was lost during the war.
		All of her main armament (four dual 8 inch turrets) were positioned in the forward part of her hull.
		If you are interested in an open forum on IJN ship, go to the Japanese Navy and Ship forum.
	www.ijn.dreamhost.com /index.html (279 words)

	Imperial Japanese Navy Deployment 1914 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		So be careful that the Japanese ships you use are not treaty cruisers, aircraft carriers or destroyers armed with Long Lance torpedoes.
		Lacroix and Wells's monumental "Japanese Cruisers of the Pacific War" gives detailed information on Japanese fleet organization and other matters back at least to the turn of the century, the title notwithstanding.
		Below is the basic structure of the Japanese navy under the reorganization of 10 July 1914; they do not tell which ships were in each formation, so I'm not sure whether this will be helpful.
	www.gwpda.org /naval/fdjn0001.htm (545 words)

	Amazon.com: Midway: The Battle that Doomed Japan, the Japanese Navy's Story: Books: Mitsuo Fuchida,Masatake ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The authors tell us about the dithering of the Japanese commander as to whether to strike Midway again, or to strike the American fleet, or do a hasty strike against the American fleet before all his planes were recovered--and how this indecision helped lose a battle that almost could not be lost.
		Fushica's views are particularly valuable in that he was aboard the Japanese carrier Akagi during the battle, though grounded because of a recent operation.
		The authors are harsh on the fecklessness of the Japanese naval forays into the Indian ocean which accomplished little of strategic value, the high-level conflicts in the Japanese decision-making process, and the over-confidence generated by their success at Pearl Harbor and elsewhere.
	www.amazon.com /Midway-Battle-Doomed-Japanese-Navys/dp/1557504288 (2512 words)

	Japanese Navy, World War 1
		was besieged and taken on the 7th November 1914 by a largely Japanese naval and land force with a token Western Allied presence.
		Most Japanese wartime losses apart from the Tsingtau operation, were due to accidents, but in the Mediterranean, one destroyer was torpedoed and badly damaged.
		Takachiho was part of the large Japanese fleet engaged in the capture of the German base of Tsingtau in northern China.
	www.naval-history.net /WW1NavyJapanese.htm (2249 words)

	CINCPACFLT :: Ehime Maru Recovery images ::
		3, 2001 // U.S. Navy and Japanese divers help a team of divers remove their gear after returning from a dive on the Ehime Maru.
		U.S. Navy and Japanese divers are working together to recover remains and personal effects from the ship.
		U.S. Navy and Japanese divers are working together to recover missing crew member remains and personal effects from the ship.
	www.cpf.navy.mil /news_images/special_projects/ehimemaruimages_16.html (349 words)

	Japanese Navy Ship Models, Aircraft Carriers, Battleships.
		Japanese Navy Aircraft Carriers and Japanese Battleships found in World War 2 are showing their part in history in these ship models, books and movies.
		Also included is a large number of links to other Japanese ship historic pages and a brief history of these navy ships.
		Look at the individual Japanese Ship model types, then read the links and you will soon become an expert at the different ships histories and the battles that they fought in.
	www.yellowairplane.com /Models_Ships/A2_Japanese_Navy_Ships.html (231 words)

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		Mark F RE:Japanese Navy- 7/20/2004 9:10:51 PM I recommend a trip to the local library where you will want to look up the publications "United States Naval Institute Combat Fleets" (whatever edition they might have) and or "Jane's Fighting Ships." This will tell, and show you everything you need to know.
		I would consider 40+ destroyers/Frigates and 18 subs to be a pretty damn power force even if it is technically not a navy (Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force).
		It is certainly one of the 5 most powerful navy forces in the world.
	www.strategypage.com /messageboards/messages/8-3544.asp (309 words)

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