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The first book on the powerful Japanese Shōkaku-class carriers.

The Akizuki class previewed many features of the postwar fleet escort destroyer. This is the history of their design and construction, and it relies heavily on Japanese source material and includes numerous photos and drawings.

The battleships of the KongÅ?-class were the oldest, smallest, and fastest battleships in the Imperial Japanese Navy during WWII. Initially classified as battle cruisers, the lead ship in the class, KongÅ?, was built in England just prior to WWI. The remaining three ships in the class -- Haruna, Kirishima, and Hiei -- were all built and completed in Japan by 1915. All four ships were highly reconfigured in the 1920s, and they were reclassified...

87 photos, 202 figures and drawings, 60 tables, and 15 maps and tracks. Recognising the impossibility of improving upon the (in)famous 5:5:3 ratio of the Washington Naval Treaty when the expected naval race would begin as the treaty expired, the Imperial Japanese Navy resorted to a strategy of qualitative superiority to overcome the American quantitative edge. The IJN succeeded, after many studies and false starts, in creating the world's mos...