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A latecomer on the international naval scene, Japan did not begin to build up her Navy until the 1870s. Relying first on foreign-built warships, the Japanese spared no effort to acquire the necessary knowledge to construct their own vessels and, within a few decades, the new Imperial Japanese Navy was already a highly efficient force. The acid test of fire came in 1904 when, to country the increasing Russian political interference in the Far East, the Japanese High Command decided on a surprise strike against the Russian Fleet in Port Arthur. This was followed on May 27, 1905, by the 'Japanese Trafalgar' when the numerically superior Russian Baltic Fleet was annihilated at Tsushima by Japanese naval forces under Admiral Togo. After the First World War the Imperial Japanese Navy went through a series of naval construction and modernisation programmes, first copying certain foreign design features but soon evolving an original style of their own. Although the Washington Treaty of 1922 set certain limits on the size and number of naval units, Japanese designers soon found ways and means of circumventing these restrictions. But it was not just an expansion in numbers and size: along wi

Who reads The Imperial Japanese Navy?

Author

Anthony John Watts; Brian G. Gordon

Publisher

Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers

Published

1971

Language

EN

ISBN

9780385012683

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Military History, Humanities