* 1904 – Russo-Japanese War: the Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets takes place.

* 1945 – World War II: The Japanese battleship Yamato, the largest battleship ever constructed, is sunk by American planes 200 miles north of Okinawa while en-route to a suicide mission in Operation Ten-Go.

General Leclerc later, along with the battleship Richelieu, represented France at Tokyo during the Japanese surrender, ending World War II completely.

* 1944 – the last battleship built by the United States Navy and future site of the signing of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, is commissioned.

* 1918 – The Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Kawachi blows up at Shunan, western Honshu, Japan, killing at least 621.

* 1944 – World War II: The Japanese aircraft carrier Zuikaku, and the battleship Musashi are sunk in the Battle of Leyte Gulf.

* 1945 – World War II: Combat ends in the Pacific Theater: the Instrument of Surrender of Japan is signed by Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and accepted aboard the battleship in Tokyo Bay.

* Japanese battleship Satsuma

The inhabitants of Earth secretly build a massive spaceship inside the ruins of the Japanese battleship Yamato, the Space Battleship Yamato for which the story is titled.

However, in reference to naval nomenclature, it is technically inaccurate, as 戦艦 senkan means " battleship " and not " cruiser " ( which in Japanese would be 巡洋艦 jun ' yōkan ).

The IJN deployed approximately 21 TBs during the conflict, and on 27 May 1905 the Japanese torpedo boat destroyers and TBs launched 16 torpedoes at the battleship Knyaz Suvorov, Admiral Rozhestvensky's flagship at the battle of Tsushima.

*, a Pennsylvania class battleship sunk by Japanese bombers in the attack on Pearl Harbor 7 December 1941.

The Japanese battleship Yamato | Japanese battleship Yamato explodes after persistent attacks from U. S. aircraft during the Battle of Okinawa, 7 April 1945.

** The Japanese battleship Yamato is sunk north of Okinawa while enroute on a suicide mission.

** WWII ends: The final official surrender of Japan is accepted by the Supreme Allied Commander, General Douglas MacArthur, and Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz for the United States, and delegates from Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, China, and others from a Japanese delegation led by Mamoru Shigemitsu, on board the American battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.

** Battle of Guadalcanal: Aviators from the USS Enterprise sink the Japanese battleship Hiei.

* June 8 – WWII: Japanese battleship Mutsu was destroyed by an accidental magazine explosion in Hashirajima anchorage, killing 1, 121.

* December 10 – WWII: The British battleship HMS Prince of Wales and battlecruiser HMS Repulse are sunk by Japanese aircraft in the South China Sea north of Singapore.

* Japanese battleship Tango, a pre-dreadnought battleship originally known as the Poltava

The battleship Japanese battleship Mikasa | Mikasa, Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō | Tōgō's flagship at the battle of Tsushima, preserved as a memorial in Yokosuka, Japan

* Kaiyō official website ( in Japanese )

* Kaiyō official website ( in Japanese )

* Kaiyō official website ( in Japanese )

The fleet originally consisted of eight steamships: Kaiten, Banryū, Japanese gunboat Chiyoda, Chōgei, Kaiyō Maru, Kanrin Maru, Mikaho and Shinsoku.

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* 1981 – The U. S. Navy nuclear submarine accidentally collides with the Nissho Maru, a Japanese cargo ship, sinking it.

* 1958 – Japanese ferry Nankai Maru capsizes off southern Awaji Island, Japan, 167 killed.

* August 18 – WWII: Submarine Rasher sinks Teia Maru, Eishin Maru, Teiyu Maru, and carrier from Japanese convoy HI71 in one of the most effective American " wolfpack " attacks of the war.

* August 22 – WWII: Tsushima Maru, a Japanese unmarked passenger / cargo ship, is sunk by torpedoes launched by the submarine USS Bowfin off Akuseki-jima, killing 1, 484 civilians including 767 schoolchildren.

* May 11 – Japanese National Railways ' ferry Shiun Maru sinks after collision with sister ship Uko Maru in thick fog off Takamatsu, Shikoku, in the Seto Inland Sea of Japan ; 166 passengers ( many children ) and two crew are killed.

On April 25, 1977, the Japanese trawler Zuiyo Maru, sailing east of Christchurch, New Zealand, caught a strange, unknown creature in the trawl.

At 2: 45 AM JST, the Japanese auxiliary cruiser Shinano Maru observed three lights on what appeared to be a vessel in the distant horizon and closed in to investigate.

* 1937, German whale factory ship Unitas for Jürgens-Van den Bergh company ( whale hunting vessels were built by Bremer Vulkan ); as Japanese Nissan Maru II scrapped in Taiwan 1987

* Hakudo Maru, a spirit in Japanese mythology who taught humans how to make ships

** Komagata Maru, a Japanese steam liner denied entry to Vancouver, Canada in 1914

** Montevideo Maru, a Japanese ship sunk in World War II, resulting in the loss of large numbers of Austalian prisoners of war and civilians and Australia's worst maritime disaster

** Nisshin Maru, a Japanese whaling ship involved in collisions with Greenpeace vessels in 1999 and 2006

** Ryō Un Maru, a Japanese fishing boat washed away from her moorings after the 2011 Tōhoku tsunami, and was deliberately sunk on 5 April 2012 after entering U. S. waters off the coast of Alaska.

** Tatsuta Maru, a Japanese troopship sunk in 1943

* Major William Atha Gay-( 1912 – 1944 ) POW on Oryoku Maru Japanese Hell Ship ; served on the staff of Brigadier General Hugh Casey in Luzon ; decorations included Legion of Merit, the Bronze Star, and the Purple Heart.

* San Juan Bautista ( originally called Date Maru, 伊達丸 in Japanese ).

The first Japanese immigrants ( 791 people, mostly farmers ) came to Brazil in 1908 on the Kasato Maru from the Japanese port of Kobe, moving to Brazil in search of better living conditions.

There are various theories of what might have happened, including a theory that the bones sank with the Japanese ship Awa Maru in 1945.

The crew of Daigo Fukuryu Maru, a Japanese fishing boat located outside of the predicted danger zone, was also affected.

The Kanrin Maru sailed from Yokosuka in 1860 with the first Japanese diplomatic embassy to the United States in 1860.