Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. — 233 p. Since the late 1990s, the Japan Coast Guard (JCG) has countered a myriad of 'outlaw' threats at sea including piracy, terrorism, the proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) and the threat posed by 'rogue states'. Japan's innovative strategy has transformed maritime security governance in Southeast Asia and beyond.
London, 1935. Pages: 307. Одна из первых биографий (на английском языке) знаменитого японского адмирала маркиза Хэйхатиро Того (1848-1934), известного своей победой над эскадрой русского флота в Цусимском сражении (27 мая 1905).
Merriam Press, 2015. — 196 p. This is a biography of Japanese Navy Admiral Osami Nagano, who ordered the attack on the American fleet at Pearl Harbor. This work covers his entire career, diplomatic, political and military, concentrating on the years leading up to the war between Japan and the United States. He attained great achievements in his military and political careers,...
Osprey Publishing, 2014. — 493 p. A fresh look at the disastrous Java Sea Campaign of 1941–1942 which heralded a wave of Japanese naval victories in the Pacific but which eventually sowed the seeds of their eventual change in fortunes. In the immediate aftermath of Pearl Harbor, the Japanese juggernaut quickly racked up victory after victory. Desperate to secure resource-rich...
Naval Institute Press, 1978. — 393 p. For almost 20 years, more than 200 reels of microfilmed Japanese naval records remained in the custody of the U.S. Naval History Division, virtually untouched. This unique book draws on those sources and others to tell the story of the Pacific War from the viewpoint of the Japanese. Former Marine Corps officer and Asian scholar Paul Dull...
Naval Institute Press, 2017. — 590 p. First published in 1986 and lauded by historians and World War II buffs eager for the Japanese viewpoint, this collection of essays makes significant contributions to the field of World War II literature. In it, top-ranking Japanese officers offer their personal perspectives of the Pacific War. This second edition adds five articles to the...
Naval Institute Press, 2012. — 595 p. One of the great spectacles of modern naval history is the Imperial Japanese Navy's instrumental role in Japan's rise from an isolationist feudal kingdom to a potent military empire stridently confronting, in 1941, the world's most powerful nation. Years of painstaking research and analysis of previously untapped Japanese-language resources...
Naval Institute Press, 2012. — 696 p. One of the great spectacles of modern naval history is the Imperial Japanese Navy's instrumental role in Japan's rise from an isolationist feudal kingdom to a potent military empire stridently confronting, in 1941, the world's most powerful nation. Years of painstaking research and analysis of previously untapped Japanese-language resources...
US Naval institute, 1958. — 157 p. Widely acknowledged for its valuable Japanese insights into the battle that turned that tide of war in the Pacific, the book has made a great impact on American readers over the years. Two Japanese naval aviators who participated in the operation provide an unsparing analysis of what caused Japan's staggering defeat. Mitsuo Fuchida, who led...
US Naval institute, 1958. — 157 p. Widely acknowledged for its valuable Japanese insights into the battle that turned that tide of war in the Pacific, the book has made a great impact on American readers over the years. Two Japanese naval aviators who participated in the operation provide an unsparing analysis of what caused Japan's staggering defeat. Mitsuo Fuchida, who led...
Ballantine Books , 1955. — 256 p. The great air and sea battle of the Pacific, as seen through Japanese eyes... On June 4, 1942, Admiral Yamamoto launched his attack on Midway with the largest fleet yet assembled in the Pacific. His strike force included 350 ships and over 100,000 officers and men. His to smash the U.S. aircraft carriers based at Midway and break the Navy's...
Greenhill Books, 1992. — 173 p. A detailed catalogue of ships surrendered to the US, compiled by Imperial Japanese Navy Constructor Fukui in 1945, and published by US Naval intelligence in 1947. For the new edition, 100 photos augment the original line drawings, and an introduction explains the historical context.
Naval Institute Press, 2008. — 750 p. Long out of print, theses wartime diaries of a key admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy, provide a revealing inside look into the Japanese view of the Pacific War. Matome Ugaki (1890-1945) was chief of staff of the Combined Fleet under Admiral Isoroki Yamamoto until both were shot down over Bougainville in April 1943, resulting in...
Ballantine Books, 1961. — 215 p. This highly regarded war memoir was a best seller in both Japan and the United States during the 1960s and has long been treasured by historians for its insights into the Japanese side of the surface war in the Pacific. The author was a survivor of more than one hundred sorties against the Allies and was known throughout Japan as the "Unsinkable...
W.W. Norton and Company, 1984. — 142 p. The Imperial Japanese Navy: for centuries it had never been defeated. Yet after four years of naval warfare against the United States it simply no longer existed, having lost more than 400,000 men, its great carriers and massive battleships, most now resting on the ocean floor––sunken wrecks. Now, one of Japan’s leading military...
W. Thacker Company, 1904. — 368 p. На английском языке. Классический справочник по истории, организации и составу японского императорского флота во время русско-японской войны 1904-1905 годов. Более 50 фото и рисунков кораблей, схемы и технические характеристики всех единиц японского флота, фото японских адмиралов.
Success Publishing, 2015. — 56 p. The bombing of Pearl Harbor, in the worlds of President Roosevelt, is truly a “day that will live on in infamy”. We know that it was the day that Japan decided to attack US soil in an effort to dissuade and cripple the United States so they would let up on sanctions and keep out of the war. We know the stories of the sailors that lived and...
Success Publishing, 2015. — 56 p. The bombing of Pearl Harbor, in the worlds of President Roosevelt, is truly a “day that will live on in infamy”. We know that it was the day that Japan decided to attack US soil in an effort to dissuade and cripple the United States so they would let up on sanctions and keep out of the war. We know the stories of the sailors that lived and...
Chatham Publishing, 1999. — 903 p. The Imperial Japanese Navy of World War II was the third largest in the world and had some of the most powerful warships of the time. This book is one of the best English language works on a specific subject, that of the cruisers of the Japanese Navy during World War 2. During the early phases of World War 2, Japanese cruisers posted an...
Illustrator Laurier Jim. — Osprey Publishing, 2023. — 84 p. The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) entered the Pacific War as one of the most formidable navies in the world, and its combat power was concentrated into one force, the Combined Fleet. In the months that followed Pearl Harbor it enjoyed an unrivaled string of victories, shattering American, British, Australian, and Dutch...
Illustrator Laurier Jim. — Osprey Publishing, 2024. — 84 p. Contrary to myth, the Imperial Japanese Navy was not a shattered force after its defeat at Midway. In this book, Pacific War expert Mark Stille examines the IJN's Combined Fleet during the Guadalcanal and Solomons campaigns, when it was reorganized and was forced to fight a grinding battle of attrition against the US...
Illustrator Laurier Jim. — Osprey Publishing, 2024. — 84 p. Contrary to myth, the Imperial Japanese Navy was not a shattered force after its defeat at Midway. In this book, Pacific War expert Mark Stille examines the IJN's Combined Fleet during the Guadalcanal and Solomons campaigns, when it was reorganized and was forced to fight a grinding battle of attrition against the US...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. — 272 p. In Post-war Japan as a Sea Power, Alessio Patalano incorporates new, exclusive source material to develop an innovative approach to the study of post-war Japan as a military power. This archival-based history of Asia's most advanced navy, the Japanese Maritime Self-Defence Force (JMSDF), looks beyond the traditional perspective of viewing the...
Squadron/Signal Publications, 2006. — 58 p. — (Warships 26). An excellent staple bound, paperback reference. Complete coverage, inside and out, of the Imperial Japanese Navy's complete heavy cruiser fleet during WWII. Detailed photographic coverage from all aspects including never before published photos! Heavily illustrated with black-and-white photographs accompanied with a...
Squadron/Signal Publications, 2006. — 58 p. — (Warships 25). At the beginning of World War II, the Imperial Japanese Navy operated a light cruiser force of 20 ships, and added another five during the course of the war. These fast ships, carrying seaplanes and heavy torpedo armament, generally were used as flagships for destroyer flotillas and submarine squadrons. Of these, nine...
Osprey Publishing, 2014. — 390 p. A valuable reference source for Pacific War enthusiasts and historians, «The Imperial Japanese Navy in the Pacific War» provides a history of the IJN’s deployment and engagements, analysis of the evolution of strategy and tactics, and finally addresses the question of whether it truly was a modern navy, fully prepared for the rigors of combat in...
Classic Warships Publishing, 2002. — 74 p. — (Warship Pictorial 17). The Myōkō-class cruisers were a series of four heavy cruisers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy in the late 1920s. Three were lost during World War II. The ships of this class displaced 11,633 tons (standard), were 201 metres (659 ft) long, and were capable of steaming at 36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph). Their...
Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2023. — 182 p. Japan’s navy, after that of the United States, is now the most potent in the Pacific Ocean. This book examines the development and potential of the Japanese navy in the context of the U.S.–Japan alliance. Woolley presents Japan’s coming of age as a military—primarily naval—power in a series of case studies on sea-lane defense,...
US Naval Institute Press, 2012. — 257 p. Many regard this work as the definitive account of a controversial conflict of the war in the Pacific, the June 1944 battle known as the "Great Marianas Turkey Shoot." Drawing on ten years of research and told from the viewpoint of the fliers and sailors who were on the firing line, William T. Y'Blood leads the reader through every stage of...
М.: Яуза; Эксмо, 2013. — 96 с. Эти эсминцы заслужили почетное прозвище «самураев» японского флота. Эти корабли стали носителями истинного духа бусидо, завещавшего сражаться до последней капли крови, не сдаваясь ни при каких обстоятельствах, делая что должно, как бы ни был силен враг. Хотя эсминцы типов «Мацу» и «Татибана» были приняты на вооружение, когда время громких побед...
Якутск: Сахаполиграфиздат, 1995. — 51 с. — (Корабли Русско-Японской войны №2). — ISBN: 5-85259-077-0. Издано по поручению Морского технического комитета. Составили п-полковник морской артиллерии Фёдоров Л. Р. и Золотухин С. Х. В альбоме представлены рисунки и чертежи кораблей японского флота на период 1904 года.
СПб.: Столичная скоропечатня, 1904. — 51 с. Оригинальное название: Федоровъ Л. М., Золотухинъ С. Х. Японскій военный флотъ. Альбомъ рисунковъ и чертежей судовъ, съ указаниемъ главныхъ элементовъ и вооруженія ихъ. Альбом содержит сведения о тактико-технических характеристиках японских боевых кораблей, их фотографии и схемы расположения вооружений. Оглавленіе альбома. Силуэты...
Ленинград; Москва: Главная редакция судостроительной литературы, 1936. — 74 с. Книга Е.Е. Шведе „Военный флот Японии" предназначена в первую очередь для работников судостроительной промышленности. В ней рассматривается состояние военно-морских сил Японии в части состава военного флота, программ военного кораблестроения, личного состава указанного флота. Целевой установкой книги...
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