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Imperial Japanese Navy

  • Washington Naval TreatyIn November 1918, the British Royal Navy interned the defeated German High Seas Fleet. The Allied powers held sharply differing views on what to do with…
  • Japanese war crimesThe Empire of Japan committed numerous war crimes and crimes against humanity across various Asian, Pacific nations, notably during the Second Sino-Japanese…
  • Momotaro: Sacred SailorsThe Japanese Naval Ministry issued a direct order to director Mitsuyo Seo in 1943. He was tasked with creating a feature-length animated film for World War…
  • Imperial Japanese NavyIn 1576, the daimyō Oda Nobunaga commissioned six iron-covered warships known as Oatakebune. These vessels represented one of the earliest attempts at…
  • Japanese naval codesIn 1923, American agents seized a Japanese naval attaché's luggage in Washington D.C. They removed a set of codebooks bound in red covers from his briefcase.