Tosa (土佐) was a planned battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Designed by Yuzuru Hiraga, Tosa was to be the first of two Tosa class ships. Displacing...
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The Tosa-class battleships (土佐型戦艦, Tosa-gata Senkan) were two dreadnoughts ordered as part of the "Eight-Eight" fleet for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN)...
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diver Tosa dialect Tosa-mi, or tataki, a cooking technique Tosa (dog), a Japanese dogfighting breed Tosa-class battleship of Imperial Japan Japanese battleship...
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1940s, the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) built a series of battleships as it expanded its fleet. Previously, the Empire of Japan had acquired a few ironclad...
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Nagato (Japanese: 長門, named after the ancient Nagato Province) was a super-dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN). Completed...
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(Japanese: 陸奥, named after the ancient Mutsu Province) was the second and last Nagato-class dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Japanese Navy...
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Tosa Province (土佐国, Tosa-no kuni) was a province of Japan in the area of southern Shikoku. Tosa bordered on Awa to the northeast, and Iyo to the northwest...
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eight battleships and six battlecruisers, all ships under eight years old. However, having four large battleships (two each of the Nagato and Tosa classes)...
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Kawachi-class dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the first decade of the 20th century. Following the Japanese ship-naming conventions...
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The Yamato-class battleships (大和型戦艦, Yamato-gata senkan) were two battleships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, Yamato and Musashi, laid down leading up...
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Hashima Island (category CS1 uses Japanese-language script (ja))
island's nickname came from its resemblance from a distance to the Japanese battleship Tosa. Coal was first discovered on the island around 1810, and the island...
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Amagi-class battlecruiser (redirect from Japanese battlecruiser Amagi)
Takao. The Amagi design was essentially a lengthened version of the Tosa-class battleship, but with a thinner armored belt and deck, a more powerful propulsion...
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renamed Azuma (東, "East"), was the first ironclad warship of the Imperial Japanese Navy. She was designed as an armored ram for service in shallow waters...
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Yamato class, was a planned class of battleships for the Imperial Japanese Navy. In keeping with longstanding Japanese naval strategy, the A-150s would have...
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submarines, battleships, oilers, minelayers and other types of Japanese sea vessels of war and naval ships used during wartime. Imperial Japanese Navy of...
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JS Kaga (redirect from Japanese destroyer Kaga)
The ship bears the same name as the World War II-era Kaga, the Tosa-class battleship turned aircraft carrier that was produced in 1928 and participated...
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The Nagato-class battleships (長門型戦艦, Nagato-gata senkan) were a pair of dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) towards the...
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built. List of battleships of Japan List of cruisers of Japan List of destroyers of Japan In place of Amagi, the Tosa-class battleship Kaga was reordered...
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Imperial Japanese Armed Forces (IJAF, full Japanese: 帝国陸海軍, romanized: Teikoku riku-kaigun or Nippon-gun (日本軍) by short which by meaning "Japanese Forces")...
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A treaty battleship was a battleship built in the 1920s or 1930s under the terms of one of a number of international treaties governing warship construction...
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of battleships includes all battleships built between 1859 and 1946, listed alphabetically. The boundary between ironclads and the first battleships, the...
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destroyers were sent to intercept the Japanese force that night. The Japanese, composed of the fast battleship Kirishima, two heavy cruisers, two light...
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Class Overview MaritimeQuest Japanese Battleship Index Japanese gunboats in Japanese, with photo Japanese gunboats in Japanese, with photo Materials of IJN...
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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 'Navy of the Greater Japanese Empire', or 日本海軍 Nippon Kaigun...
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Dreadnought (redirect from Dreadnought battleship)
year's naval bill authorized two more battleships and two more battlecruisers. The battleships, which became the Tosa class, were to carry ten 16-inch guns...
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Eight-Eight Fleet (category Articles containing Japanese-language text)
Fleet". The new ships started were the two Nagato-class battleships, the two Tosa-class battleships, and a total of four Amagi-class battlecruisers: all...
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8 cm/40 3rd Year Type naval gun (category Naval guns of Japan)
minelayer (1913) Sokuten-class minelayer (1938) Tenryū-class cruiser Tosa-class battleship Tsubame-class minelayer Tsukuba-class cruiser W-1-class minesweeper...
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British-built ironclad corvette of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN). She was purchased on behalf of a Japanese daimyo or clan lord in 1870 who donated the...
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aspects contributed to Japan's emergence as a great power following the First Sino-Japanese War, the Boxer Rebellion, the Russo-Japanese War, and World War...
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Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN). Originally intended to be one of two Tosa-class battleships, Kaga was converted under the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty...
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