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This list of Japanese Naval ships and war vessels in World War II is a list of seafaring vessels of the Imperial Japanese Navy in World War II. It includes submarines , battleships , oilers , minelayers and other types of Japanese sea vessels of war and naval ships used during wartime.
She remained based in the Shanghai area, patrolling the lower reaches of the Yangtze River throughout most of World War II. On April 21, 1944, she was assigned to the Take Convoy mission to transport the Imperial Japanese Army's IJA 32nd Division and IJA 35th Division from China via Takao, Keelung, and Manila to New Guinea.
She was laid down at Osaka Iron Works on February 20, 1939 and launched on December 23, 1939, and was commissioned into the Imperial Japanese Navy as on June 30, 1940. [1] She was intended initially for support of combat operations by the Imperial Japanese Army in the Second Sino-Japanese War off the coast of China.
An Imperial Japanese Navy I-400-class submarine, the largest submarine type of World War II. Japan had by far the most varied fleet of submarines of World War II, including manned torpedoes , midget submarines (Ko-hyoteki, Kairyu), medium-range submarines, purpose-built supply submarines (many for use by the Army), long-range fleet submarines ...
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.
The term Collaborationist Chinese Army refers to the military forces of the puppet governments founded by Imperial Japan in mainland China during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II. They include the armies of the Provisional (1937–1940), Reformed (1938–1940) and Reorganized National Governments of the Republic of China (1940 ...
Japanese tanker Sakura Maru; USS San Felipe; Japanese amphibious assault ship Shinshū Maru; Shohatsu-class landing craft; Shōkai Maru-class tugboat; Soukoutei-class gunboat; SS-class landing ship; ST-class armored boat; Suwa Maru
China portal; Events preceding World War II in Asia. Jinan incident (May 1928) Huanggutun incident (Japanese assassination of the Chinese head of state Generalissimo Zhang Zuolin on 4 June 1928) Second Sino-Japanese War. Japanese invasion of Manchuria. Mukden Incident (18 September 1931) January 28 Incident (Shanghai, 1932) Defense of the Great ...