Imperial Japanese Navy

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military branch naval force

The Imperial Japanese Navy was the maritime military force of the Empire of Japan, renowned for its powerful carrier fleet and major role in naval battles across the Pacific during World War II.

Aliases (21)

大日本帝国海軍 ×3
Imperial Japanese Navy officers ×2
Imperial Japanese Navy surface forces ×2
Japanese Combined Fleet ×2
Japanese Navy ×2
1st Air Fleet ×1
IJN ×1
Imperial Japanese Army ×1
Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service ×1
Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft ×1
Imperial Japanese Navy destroyers ×1
Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II ×1
Imperial Japanese Navy era ×1
Imperial Japanese Navy forces ×1
Imperial Japanese Navy leadership ×1
Imperial Japanese Navy logistics network ×1
Imperial Japanese Navy submarine service ×1
Japanese Imperial Navy ×1
Japanese submarine force ×1
Rengō Kantai ×1
大日本帝國海軍 ×1

Statements (59)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	military branch → naval force →
allegiance	Emperor of Japan →
conflict	First Sino-Japanese War → Pacific War → Russo-Japanese War → Second Sino-Japanese War → World War I → World War II →
country	Empire of Japan →
dissolved	1945 →
doctrine	carrier-centric naval aviation →
engagedIn	Attack on Pearl Harbor → Battle of Leyte Gulf → Battle of Midway → Battle of Tsushima → Battle of the Coral Sea → Battle of the Java Sea → Battle of the Philippine Sea → Battle of the Yellow Sea → Guadalcanal Campaign → Indian Ocean raid → Solomon Islands campaign →
followedBy	Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force →
headquarters	Tokyo →
inception	1869 →
language	Japanese →
militaryBranchOf	Empire of Japan →
nativeName	大日本帝國海軍 →
notableCommander	Chuichi Nagumo → Heihachiro Togo → Isoroku Yamamoto → Osami Nagano → Soemu Toyoda →
notableOperation	Operation MI → Operation Z →
notableShip	Akagi → Hiryu → Kaga → Musashi → Shokaku → Soryu → Yamato → Zuikaku →
notableUnit	1st Air Fleet → Combined Fleet →
partOf	Armed Forces of the Empire of Japan →
peakPeriod	early 1942 →
peakPersonnel	about 2,000,000 →
precededBy	Tokugawa shogunate navy →
shortName	IJN →
status	defunct →
used	aircraft carrier → battleship → cruiser → destroyer → midget submarine → seaplane tender → submarine →

Referenced by (313)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Akagi → Amagi-class battlecruiser → Eight-Eight Fleet Plan → Hiryu → Hiryū → Hiryū → IJN battleship Yamashiro → IJN cruiser Naka → Japanese aircraft carrier Hōshō → Japanese aircraft carrier Ryūjō → Japanese aircraft carrier Shinano → Japanese battleship Mikasa → Japanese battleship Musashi → Japanese battleship Mutsu → Japanese battleship Nagato → Japanese battleship Shikishima → Japanese battleship Yamato → Japanese cruiser Aoba → Japanese cruiser Chokai → Japanese cruiser Kako → Japanese cruiser Tenryu → Japanese cruiser Yubari → Japanese submarine I-168 → Kaga → Kongō-class battlecruiser → Kure Naval Arsenal → Maizuru Naval Arsenal → Mikuma → Mikuma → Mogami → Musashi → Nakajima B5N → Operation Z → Russian battleship Retvizan → Sasebo Naval Arsenal → Shokaku → Shōhō → Suzuya → Sōryū → Tokyo Express supply run → Yamato → Yamato-class battleship → Yokosuka Naval Arsenal → Zuikaku →	operator
Chuichi Nagumo → Chūichi Hara → Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign → Harukichi Hyakutake → Heihachiro Togo → Hyakutake Kenkichi → Imperial General Headquarters → Imperial Japanese Army → Isoroku Yamamoto → Isoroku Yamamoto → Isoroku Yamamoto → Itō Sukeyuki → Japanese occupation of Guangzhou → Japanese submarine I-168 ("Japanese submarine force") → Jisaburō Ozawa → Katō Tomosaburō → Keiji Shibazaki → Kiyohide Shima → Mikuma → Mineichi Koga → Minoru Ōta → Mitsuo Fuchida → Nobutake Kondō → Okada Keisuke → Osami Nagano → Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu → Prince Higashifushimi Yorihito → Rikusentai → Saitō Makoto → Shigeyoshi Inoue → Shōji Nishimura → Soemu Toyoda → Takeo Kurita → Takeo Takagi → Yamamoto Gonnohyōe → Yasuhiro Nakasone →	militaryBranch
Admiralty Islands campaign → Battle of Cape Esperance → Battle of Cape Gloucester → Battle of Iwo Jima → Battle of Leyte Gulf → Battle of Okinawa → Battle of Rennell Island → Battle of Shanghai (1937) → Battle of Surigao Strait → Battle of Tarawa → Battle of Tassafaronga → Battle of Tsushima → Battle of Tulagi → Battle of the Badung Strait → Battle of the Eastern Solomons → Battle of the Makassar Strait → Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands → Battle of the Stewart Islands → Battle of the Sunda Strait → Battle of the Yellow Sea → Battle off Cape Engaño → Battle off Samar → Invasion of Guam → Invasion of Rabaul → Invasion of Tinian → Naval Battle of Hakodate → Operation Hailstone →	belligerent
Aichi D1A → Aichi D3A → Aichi D3A → Betio → CV-2 → Chuuk Lagoon → Commander-in-Chief of the Fourth Fleet → Florida Islands ("Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II") → Henderson Field ("Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service") → Ironbottom Sound → Marshal Admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy → Mikuma → Mitsubishi A6M Zero → Nakajima Sakae 11 → Rabaul → Savo Sound → Tora! Tora! Tora! → Truk Lagoon → Type 38 rifle → Type 93 Long Lance torpedo → Vice Admiral (Imperial Japanese Navy) → Wotje Atoll → Yokosuka D4Y →	usedBy
2nd Carrier Division → Combined Fleet → Commander of First Air Fleet → Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet → Commander-in-Chief of the Fourth Fleet → Eleventh Air Fleet → First Air Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy → First Carrier Division → Fourth Fleet (Imperial Japanese Navy) → Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service → Imperial Japanese Navy General Staff → Imperial Japanese Navy Technical Department → Japanese Special Naval Landing Forces → Kido Butai → Rikusentai → Saitō Makoto ("Imperial Japanese Navy leadership") → Second Fleet (Imperial Japanese Navy) → Sixth Fleet (Imperial Japanese Navy) → Thirteenth Air Fleet →	partOf
Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet → First Fleet → Hiryu → Hiryū → Hiryū-class aircraft carrier → Japanese cruiser Kako ("Japanese Navy") → Japanese submarine I-168 → Kaga → Marshal Admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy → Mikuma → Mogami ("Japanese Navy") → Nakajima B5N → Rear Admiral (Imperial Japanese Navy) → Type 93 Long Lance torpedo ("Imperial Japanese Navy surface forces") → Yamato → Zuikaku →	serviceBranch
Aleutian Islands campaign → Beiyang Fleet → China Burma India Theater → Commander, South Pacific Area → New Guinea campaign → Operation Chronicle → Operation Cottage → Operation Detachment → Russian Pacific Squadron → Ryukyu Islands campaign → South Sakhalin Offensive Operation → Task Force 17 → Task Force 67 → United States Army Forces in the Far East → Zinovy Rozhestvensky →	opponent
Fifth Fleet (Imperial Japanese Navy) → First Fleet → Hiryū-class aircraft carrier → Imperial Japanese Naval Academy → Imperial Japanese Navy General Staff → Imperial Japanese Navy Technical Department → Mogami class → Naval War College (Japan) →	operatedBy
Akagi → Japanese submarine I-168 → Mogami → Suzuya → Sōryū → Zuikaku →	navy
Battle of Manila (1945) ("Japanese Imperial Navy") → Battle of Pungdo → Battle of Weihaiwei → Battle of the Java Sea → Battle of the Sunda Strait →	combatant
Battleship Row, Pearl Harbor → Pearl Harbor (interwar and early WWII) → USS Arizona (BB-39) → USS Utah (AG-16) →	attackedBy
2nd Carrier Division → 5th Carrier Division → Combined Fleet → First Air Fleet →	branch
First Carrier Division → Keiji Shibazaki → Thirteenth Air Fleet →	allegiance
Commander of First Air Fleet → Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet → Imperial Japanese Navy General Staff →	appliesToJurisdiction
Kawasaki Shipyard, Kobe → Mitsubishi Nagasaki shipyard → Sasebo Naval Arsenal ("Imperial Japanese Navy logistics network") →	associatedWith
Japanese cruiser Kako → Japanese submarine I-168 → Mitsubishi Nagasaki shipyard →	builtFor
Franz Eckert → Frederick Rutland → Mitsuo Fuchida →	employer
Japanese cruiser Kako → Japanese cruiser Tenryu → Mikuma →	navalFleet
Cartwheel → February 26 Incident → Operation Forager →	opposedBy
Operation Watchtower → Operation Watchtower ("Imperial Japanese Army") → Philippine Commonwealth Army →	primaryOpponent
Japanese submarine I-168 ("Imperial Japanese Navy submarine service") → Shōji Nishimura → Sixth Fleet (Imperial Japanese Navy) →	service
CV-8 ("Imperial Japanese Navy forces") → USS Vincennes → USS West Virginia (BB-48) ("Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft") →	sunkBy
Dutch East Indies campaign → Russian battleship Retvizan →	capturedBy
Imperial General Headquarters → Navy Minister of Japan →	hasAuthorityOver
First Sino-Japanese War → South-East Asian theatre of World War II →	involvedForce
Battle of Guadalcanal → Imperial Japanese Navy ("1st Air Fleet") →	notableUnit
Japanese occupation of Hong Kong → Japanese occupation of Singapore →	occupyingForce
Downfall → Operation Coronet →	plannedOpposingForce
Nakajima Sakae radial engine → Yokosuka D4Y →	primaryUser
Jaluit Atoll → New Georgia Islands →	wasOccupiedBy
大田実 ("大日本帝国海軍") → 近藤信竹 ("大日本帝国海軍") →	所属組織
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe →	affiliation
General Order No. 1 →	appliesTo
Pearl Harbor →	attackBy
Battle of Ambon →	attacker
Order of the Golden Kite →	awardingBody
Coral Sea →	battleInvolved
Battle of Savo Island →	belligerentSide
Henderson Field →	constructionStartedBy
Henderson Field →	controlledBy
Battle of the Philippine Sea →	country
Mitsubishi J8M →	developedFor
First Fleet ("Imperial Japanese Navy era") →	era
Battle of the Yellow Sea ("Japanese Combined Fleet") →	fleet
Battle of Tsushima ("Japanese Combined Fleet") →	fleetInvolved
Tokugawa shogunate navy →	followedBy
Navy Ministry of Japan ("Imperial Japanese Navy officers") →	hadJurisdictionOver
Pacific theater of the Russo-Japanese War →	hasMajorBelligerent
Armed Forces of the Empire of Japan →	hasPart
V-J Day →	hasToDoWith
Marshal Admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy →	highestRankIn
Battle of Guangzhou →	involved
Siege of Port Arthur →	involvedBranch
Battle of Port Arthur →	involvedUnit
Philippines campaign (1941–1942) →	involves
USS Astoria (CA-34) ("Imperial Japanese Navy surface forces") →	lostTo
Heihachiro Togo →	memberOf
Nobutake Kondō →	militaryAllegiance
Battle of Saipan →	militaryBranchInvolved
Meiji era →	militaryOrganization
Imperial Japanese Navy ("大日本帝國海軍") →	nativeName
Tulagi →	occupiedBy
Japanese occupation of Malaya →	occupier
Japanese occupation of Shanghai →	occupyingPower
Nakajima Aircraft Company →	operatedFor
Battle of the Coral Sea →	operationOf
Operation Toenails →	opponentForce
Mariana and Palau Islands campaign →	opposingForces
Japanese battleship Shikishima →	orderedBy
Navy Ministry of Japan →	oversaw
SCAP →	oversawDisarmament
Canton Operation →	participant
Tokyo Raid →	participants
Operation MI →	plannedBy
Run Silent, Run Deep →	portrays
Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force →	precededBy
Aichi Kokuki →	primaryCustomer
Kaga ("Imperial Japanese Navy destroyers") →	scuttledBy
Aichi Kokuki →	servedBranch
Akio Morita →	servedIn
From Pearl Harbor to Calvary →	setting
Imperial Japanese Navy ("IJN") →	shortName
Central Pacific Ocean →	strategicFor
Imperial Rule Assistance Association →	supportedBy
Station HYPO →	targetOfIntelligence
Naval War College (Japan) ("Imperial Japanese Navy officers") →	targetStudents
Combined Fleet ("Rengō Kantai") →	transliteration
Russell Islands →	usedByMilitaryForce
淵田美津雄 ("大日本帝国海軍") →	所属軍