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The Imperial Japanese Navy conducted the majority of Japan's military operations during World War I. Japan entered the war on the side of the Entente, against Germany and Austria-Hungary as a consequence of the 1902 Anglo-Japanese Alliance. Japanese participation in the war was limited.
Japan participated in World War I from 1914 to 1918 as a member of the Allies/Entente and played an important role against the Imperial German Navy.Politically, the Japanese Empire seized the opportunity to expand its sphere of influence in China, and to gain recognition as a great power in postwar geopolitics.
(Japanese Cypress) Mar 1944 Sep 1944 Surface action off Manila Bay, Jan 1945 ‡ Kaede (Maple) Mar 1944 Oct 1944 To Rep. of China, Jul 1947 Kashi (Live Oak) May 1944 Sep 1944 Scrapped 1947 Kaya (Japanese Nutmeg-Yew) Apr 1944 Sep 1944 To USSR, Jul 1947 Keyaki (Japanese Elm) Jun 1944 Dec 1944 Sunk as target, 1947 Kiri (Paulownia Hardwood) Feb 1944
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16 May 1945; Sunk by Royal Navy at Battle of the Malacca Strait: Takao: Yokosuka Naval Arsenal, Japan Takao-class heavy cruiser: 15,490 31 May 1932 29 October 1946; Sunk as a target ship in the Strait of Malacca after surrender to the Royal Navy: Atago: Kure Naval Arsenal, Japan: Takao-class heavy cruiser 15,490 30 March 1932
First established on 28 December 1903, the IJN 1st Fleet was created during the Russo-Japanese War when the Imperial General Headquarters divided the Readiness Fleet into a mobile strike force of cruisers and destroyers to pursue the Imperial Russian Navy's Vladivostok-based cruiser squadron (the Imperial Japanese Navy ' s 2nd Fleet), while the remaining bulk of the Japanese fleet (the IJN 1st ...
Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-907-3. Howarth, Stephen (1983). The Fighting Ships of the Rising Sun: The Drama of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1895-1945. Atheneum. ISBN 0-689-11402-8. Jentschura, Hansgeorg; Jung, Dieter & Mickel, Peter (1977). Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1869–1945. Annapolis, Maryland: United States ...
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