From 1604, about 350 Red seal ships, usually armed and incorporating some Western technologies, were also commissioned by the Bakufu, mainly for Southeast Asian trade.įrom 1640, Japan chose the policy of Sakoku (seclusion), which forbade contacts with the West, eradicated Christianity, and prohibited the construction of ocean-going ships on pain of death. In 1613, the Daimyo of Sendai, in agreement with the Tokugawa Bakufu, built Date Maru, a 500 ton galleon-type ship that transported the Japanese embassy of Hasekura Tsunenaga to the Americas, which then continued to Europe. Japan built her first large ocean-going warships in the beginning of the 17th century, following contacts with the Western nations during the Nanban trade period. The sea route between the Japanese mainland and the Korean south coast was maintained by the activity of the navy throughout the campaign, allowing for the circulation of men and goods.Ī 1634 Japanese Red seal ship, combining eastern and western naval technologies. After re-organizing the Navy, Japan won an engagement against Admiral Won Kyun of the Joseon Dynasty navy, and several skirmishes against Admirals Yi Eok Ki and Choi Ho of the Ming China navy.
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The Japanese Navy suffered a series of defeats, at the hands of Korean Admiral Yi Sun-sin, using turtle ships, or Geobukson. The transportation ships were subject to the attacks of the powerful Joseon Dynasty navy. Around that time, Japan may have developed one of the first ironclad warships, when Oda Nobunaga, a Japanese daimyo, had six iron-covered Oatakebune made in 1576.ĭuring the Japanese invasion of Korea (1592-1598), a navy of about 700 ships and manned by 10,000 sailors was organized by Toyotomi Hideyoshi for the transportation and support of a land force of about 160,000. Japan undertook major naval building efforts in the 16th century, during the Warring States period, when feudal rulers vying for supremacy built vast coastal navies of several hundred ships. Japan has a long history of naval interaction with the Asian continent, involving transportation of troops between Korea and Japan, starting at least with the beginning of the Kofun period in the 3rd century.įollowing the attempts at Mongol invasions of Japan by Kubilai Khan in 1281, Japanese " Wakō" pirates became very active in plundering the coast of the Chinese Empire. The IJN was officially dissolved in 1945. The navy's history of successes, sometimes against much more powerful foes as in the 1895 Sino-Japanese war and the 1905 Russo-Japanese War, ended in almost complete annihilation during the concluding days of World War II. This eventually led to the Meiji Restoration, a period of frantic modernization and industrialization accompanied by the re-ascendance of the emperor. After two centuries of stagnation during the country's ensuing seclusion policy under the shoguns of the Edo period, Japan's Navy was comparatively backward when the country was forced open to trade by American intervention in 1854. The origins of the Imperial Japanese Navy trace back to early interactions with nations on the Asian continent, beginning in the early medieval period and reaching a peak of activity during the 16th and 17th centuries at a time of cultural exchange with European powers during the Age of Discovery. It was supported by Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service for aircraft and airstrike operation from the fleet.
It was the third largest navy in the world by 1920 behind United States Navy and Royal Navy, and perhaps the most modern at the brink of World War II. The Imperial Japanese Navy ( IJN) ( Kyūjitai: 大日本帝國海軍 Shinjitai: 大日本帝国海軍 Dai-Nippon Teikoku Kaigun or 日本海軍 Nippon Kaigun) or sometimes referred to as the Japanese Navy or Combined Fleet was the Navy of Empire of Japan from 1869 until 1947, when it was dissolved following Japan's constitutional renunciation of the use of force as a means of settling international disputes.
Isoroku Yamamoto, Togo Heihachiro, Hiroyasu Fushimi and many others. Ensign of the Imperial Japanese Navy and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force.
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