Japan Navy

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 book has been split into several sections for ebook publication because the complete file is so large and unwieldy as to be impractical. This is chapters 4 and 5 of the complete book, covering the bridge structure and the armor protection. This file contains 30 figures, 6 photographs, and 8 tables.

When the Imperial Japanese Navy destroyed Russia's battle fleet during the Russo-Japanese War, it marked the emergence of Japan as one of the world's major naval powers.