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Quiz on the Imperial Japanese Navy: History and Impact

This quiz tests your knowledge on the history, key events, and figures of the Imperial Japanese Navy, covering its establishment, major conflicts, and notable commanders.

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1 She failed to take account of the fact her opponents in the ________ did not face the political and geographical constraints of her previous wars, nor did she allow for losses in ships and crews.

2 In the 1920s, the Kaga (originally laid down as a battleship) and a similar ship, the Akagi (originally laid down as a battlecruiser) were converted to aircraft carriers to satisfy the terms of the ________.

3 What type is thing is Imperial Japanese Navy?

4 [36] In 1874, the Taiwan expedition was the first foray abroad of the new Imperial Japanese Navy and the ________.

5 When was the Imperial Japanese Navy active?

6 What or what did Imperial Japanese Navy swear allegiance to?

7 A long stretch of militaristic expansion and the start of the ________ in 1937 had exacerbated tensions with the United States, which was seen as a rival of Japan.

8 The following year, in July 1869, the Imperial Japanese Navy was formally established, two months after the last combat of the ________.

9 [108] Kamikaze planes were particularly effective during the defense of ________, in which about 2,000 planes were sent to sink 34 warships and damage around 364.

10 Who of the following was a commander in the Imperial Japanese Navy?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Aichi D1A (pictured) was a carrier-borne dive bomber primarily used by the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
  • the Heinkel He 50, designed for the Imperial Japanese Navy in 1931, was used operationally by Germany almost until the end of World War II.
  • the Houston Volunteers signed up to replace those lost aboard USS Houston (pictured) after its sinking in 1942 by the Japanese Navy.
  • the 1st Special Squadron of the Imperial Japanese Navy was tasked with defending Australia and New Zealand during World War I.
  • the U.S. Third Fleet sank all of Japan's remaining undamaged battleships and heavy cruisers during the bombing of Kure in July 1945.
  • the Russo-Japanese War vintage Japanese cruiser Yakumo (pictured) was the only warship in the Imperial Japanese Navy (aside from prizes-of-war) to have been built in Germany.
  • the United Kingdom relied on the Imperial Japanese Navy and its North American Task Force to defend Canada's west coast during the First World War.
  • the Ikazuchi class destroyers (example pictured), the first class of destroyers in the Imperial Japanese Navy, were all built in Scotland.
  • the Japanese submarine I-8 was a World War II Imperial Japanese Navy submarine, famous for completing a technology exchange mission between occupation forces in France.
  • the construction of the Asama class cruisers (pictured) of the Imperial Japanese Navy began as a private venture by the British shipbuilder Armstrong Whitworth of Elswick, for projected export business.
  • to avoid sending her to the scrapyards, the Imperial Japanese Navy converted the battleship Hiei into a training ship.
  • when politics threatened funding for the Fuji class battleships of the Imperial Japanese Navy in 1893, Emperor Meiji offered to pay from the expenses of the Imperial Household himself.
  • the Urakami class destroyer Kawakaze of the Imperial Japanese Navy was built in Scotland, sold to the Regia Marina of Italy and sunk as a ship of the Kriegsmarine of Nazi Germany.
  • the Umikaze class destroyers of the Imperial Japanese Navy were the first large destroyers designed for open ocean service to be built in Japan.
  • the Kamikaze class destroyer Shiratae was one of the few ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy to have been lost in combat during the Battle of Tsingtao.
  • the Shirakumo class destroyers (example pictured) were amongst the last destroyers purchased by the Imperial Japanese Navy from overseas shipyards.
  • the light cruiser Oyodo of the Imperial Japanese Navy was Admiral Jisaburo Ozawa's flagship after the aircraft carrier Zuikaku was sunk during WWII's Battle of Leyte Gulf.
  • the Japanese seaplane carrier Wakamiya conducted the world's first naval-launched air raids.
  • Nobuo Fujita of the Imperial Japanese Navy conducted the only wartime bombing on the continental United States in 1942.
  • Yuzuru Hiraga was a Japanese naval architect, noted for work on innovative warships such as the cruiser Yubari and Yamato for the Imperial Japanese Navy.
  • Admiral Shigeyoshi Miwa commanded Imperial Japanese Navy submarine forces during the attack on Pearl Harbor.
  • Japanese cruiser Izumo was dispatched to Malta as the flagship of an Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer unit in World War I, as part of Japan's contribution to the Allied war effort under the Anglo-Japanese Alliance.
  • World War II Imperial Japanese Navy light cruiser Kuma was torpedoed by a Royal Navy submarine while engaged in anti-submarine warfare training.
  • Rear Admiral Minoru Ōta (pictured), commander of the Imperial Japanese Navy at the Battle of Okinawa, had earlier been earmarked to command Japanese landing forces at the Battle of Midway.
  • British submariner Arthur Hezlet torpedoed the heavy cruiser Ashigara, the largest Japanese warship sunk by the Royal Navy Submarine Service during the Second World War.
  • after being saved from the scrapyard by a U.S. delegation, two Japanese warships of the Amagi and Tosa classes, Akagi and Kaga, were converted to aircraft carriers and took part in the attack on Pearl Harbor.
  • during its one year of existence, the Tainan Air Group produced more aces than any other fighter unit in the Imperial Japanese Navy.
  • the Imperial Japanese Navy's 1888 warship Kotaka is considered as the first effective design of a destroyer.
  • the Imperial Japanese Navy's Haruna was one of the first vessels in the world to be equipped with 14-inch naval guns.
  • the Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer Kamikaze was one of the few larger Japanese warships to survive the Pacific War without significant damage.
  • the Imperial Japanese Navy I-176 (pictured) was the only Japanese submarine in the Second World War to sink one of its American counterparts.
  • eight Kaba class destroyers (destroyer pictured) of the Imperial Japanese Navy were based in Malta in World War I.
  • the battleship Satsuma of the Imperial Japanese Navy was the first ship in the world to be designed and laid down as an "all-big-gun" battleship, although the British HMS Dreadnought was eventually the first one to be completed in 1906.
  • Imperial Japanese Navy submarine Commander Takakazu Kinashi was awarded the Iron Cross by Adolf Hitler for his role in the sinking of the American aircraft carrier Wasp.
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