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Merchant ships of Japan include all merchant ships designed, built, or operated by Japan. Subcategories. This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 ...
Japanese ship names follow different conventions from those typical in the West. Merchant ship names often contain the word maru at the end (meaning circle), while warships are never named after people, but rather after objects such as mountains, islands, weather phenomena, or animals.
Red seal ships (朱印船, Shuinsen) were Japanese armed merchant sailing ships bound for Southeast Asian ports with red-sealed letters patent issued by the early Tokugawa shogunate in the first half of the 17th century. [2] Between 1600 and 1635, more than 350 Japanese ships went overseas under this permit system. [3]
This list also includes ships before the official founding of the Navy and some auxiliary ships used by the Army. For a list of ships of its successor, the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, see List of active Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force ships and List of combatant ship classes of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force.
Yoshida Maru No 1-class cargo ships (4 P) Pages in category "World War II merchant ships of Japan" The following 53 pages are in this category, out of 53 total.
The Maru Special series each volume, "Ushio Shobō"., Tōkyō, Japan. Ships of the World series each volume, "Kaijinsha"., Tōkyō, Japan. Seiki Sakamoto and Hideki Fukukawa (joint authorship), Encyclopedia of organizations of the Imperial Japanese Navy, Fuyōs Sobō Shuppan, Tōkyō, Japan, 2003, ISBN 4-8295-0330-0
Merchant ships of Japan (5 C, 42 P) Museum ships in Japan (10 P) N. Naval ships of Japan (29 C, 64 P) P. Passenger ships of Japan (4 C, 15 P) R. Research vessels of ...
These ships, the best of the atakebune, were used somewhat in contrast to Japanese naval tactics of the time, which viewed naval combat as a battle between the crews of ships, rather than between the ships themselves (which contributed to the primary Japanese naval tactic of drawing near and boarding opposing ships, as the Japanese crews ...