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Parent topics

• Japan [r]: East Asian country of about 3,000 islands; one of the world's largest economies; population about 125,000,000. ^[e]
• Second World War in the Pacific [r]: The part of World War II (1937-45) fought in Asia and the Pacific Ocean between Japan and the U.S., China, Britain, Australia, and other Allies. ^[e]

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Organization

• Navy Ministry (Japan) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Imperial General Headquarters (Japan) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Commander-in-Chief, Combined Fleet [r]: Operational commander of main Imperial Japanese Navy forces in the Second World War ^[e]

Major operations

Russo-Japanese War

• Battle of Tsushima Strait [r]: Add brief definition or description

Second World War

• USS Panay incident [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Battle of Pearl Harbor [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Sinking of HMS Repulse and HMS Renown [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Battle of the Java Sea [r]: A devastating Imperial Japanese Navy victory over an ad hoc Allied force, 27-28 February 1942, fought by cruisers and destroyers, ending Allied naval resistance in what the Japanese termed the Southern Resource Area by 1 March ^[e]
• Battle of the Coral Sea [r]: Fought in May 1942, the first battle between naval forces built around aircraft carriers, in which the opposing United States and Japanese ships never saw one another; it was a tactical Japanese defeat and strategic U.S. victory ^[e]
• Battle of Savo Island [r]: A night cruiser-destroyer engagement during the Guadalcanal Campaign, among the worst defeats for the United States Navy, which lost four cruisers ^[e]
• Battle of Cape Esperance [r]: A night naval engagement between U.S. and Japanese forces, 11-12 October 1942, off the northernmost point of Guadalcanal ^[e]
• First Naval Battle of Guadalcanal [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Second Naval Battle of Guadalcanal [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Battle of Rennell Island [r]: The last naval battle of the Guadalcanal Campaign, in which a U.S. cruiser-destroyer force under Rear Admiral "Ike" Giffen, concerned with meeting a schedule, sped ahead of its escort carriers and was attacked by Japanese aircraft from Rabaul ^[e]
• Battle of Midway [r]: Generally considered to be the turning point of the Pacific Theater in the Second World War, a Japanese force intending to capture Midway Island was turned back with the loss of four aircraft carriers, at the cost of one U.S. carrier; it was the last major Japanese offensive of the war ^[e]
• Battle of the Eastern Solomons [r]: Fought in August 1942 between U.S. and Japanese forces, and the second of the five World War II battles fought between carrier units; U.S. lost more ships, Japanese lost more aircraft, and Japanese reinforcement of Guadalcanal was prevented while U.S. Marines fought off a determined ground attack on the airfield ^[e]
• Battle of the Phillipine Sea [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Battle of Leyte Gulf [r]: The largest naval battle in history, fought in October 1944 as Japan tried to interfere with U.S. amphibious landings in the Philippines ^[e]

Leaders

• Mineichi Koga [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Jisaburo Ozawa [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Heihachiro Togo [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Soemu Toyoda [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Isoroku Yamamoto [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Mitsumasa Yonai [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Sokichi Takagi [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Chuichi Nagumo [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Takajiro Onishi [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Tamon Yamaguchi [r]: Add brief definition or description