The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) [1] was the navy of the Empire of Japan from 1868 to 1945, when it was dissolved following Japan's surrender in World War II. The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force …

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Feel free to start with pictures of Japanese warships, their detailed information, their guns, torpedoes, sensors, their names, and the officers who led them in combat. On this site, you can also find out …

The IJN was constructed in steps from Russo-Japanese to its final form in 1941. It took four years of brutal fighting to destroy it, being the third world's largest fleet

The Imperial Japanese Navy had its origins in early interactions with nations on the Asian continent, beginning in the early medieval period and reaching a peak of activity during the sixteenth and …

The Imperial Japanese Navy worked the Japanese body politic more successfully than almost any other organization between 1868 and 1918.

26 December 2025 - update to the Hiroshi Nishida's IJN Data Base on the IJN personnel (both Japanese and English versions): update to the information on the Rank Structure of IJN, added the …

May 7, 2026 · The IJN Zipang was an outragrageous plan to build a 500,000 ton battleship with enough firepower to take on an entire fleet alone.

The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN; Kyūjitai: 大日本帝國海軍 Shinjitai: 大日本帝国海軍 Dai-Nippon Teikoku Kaigun (help·info) or 日本海軍 Nippon Kaigun, "Navy of the Greater Japanese Empire") was …

Nov 8, 2023 · The Japanese Navy built the largest battleships ever in the IJN Yamato and her sister. This is the story of the IJN Zipang, which would have been much bigger.