The Hakachi (波勝) was a bomb targetship of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) serving during the Second World War, the only ship of her class. Project number...
Irako (伊良湖) was a Japanese food supply ship that served during the Second World War. Constructed for the transport of food-stuffs, Irako was eventually...
Mamiya (間宮) was a food supply ship of the Imperial Japanese Navy which was in service from the 1920s to the Second World War. Mamiya was originally meant...
was a Japanese repair ship, serving during World War II. She was the only specifically designed repair ship operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy. The...
Another name for Japan:Shikishima) was the lead ship of her class of two pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy by British shipyards...
seaplane carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. The ship was built at Kawasaki Shipbuilding at Kobe, Japan, and was completed in February...
China theater of operations in the Second Sino-Japanese War. Wakataka differed from her sister ships in that her main armament was changed to twin Type...
ISBN 0-87021-097-1. 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...
sailed between Japan and the Japanese bases in the Southwest Pacific and the Indian Ocean. On 9 January 1943 Notoro became the target of a submarine attack...
of Japanese Aircraft Carriers, "Kōjinsha". (Japan), August 1996, ISBN 4-7698-0655-8 Ships of the World special issue Vol.40, History of Japanese Aircraft...
History of Pacific War Vol.62 "Ships of The Imperial Japanese Forces, Gakken (Japan), January 2008, ISBN 978-4-05-605008-0 Ships of the World special issue...
Ministry of Finance and received approval for 32 submarines and one targetship. Later, they were concluded by 78th, 79th and 81st Imperial Diet. 1st...
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