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, is the capital city of Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 583,966 in 285,992 households, and a population density of 1100 persons per km2. The total area of the city is .

thumb|254x254px|A kamikaze attack aircraft crashes into a US naval warship, May 1945. , officially , were a part of the Japanese Special Attack Units of military aviators who flew suicide attacks for the Empire of Japan against Allied naval vessels in the closing stages of the Pacific campaign of World War II, intending to destroy warships more effectively than with conventional air attacks. About 3,800 kamikaze pilots died during the war in attacks that killed more than 7,000 Allied naval personnel, sank several dozen warships, and damaged scores more. The term is used generically in modern w

naval branch of the Empire of Japan

1922 international treaty concerning naval construction and fleet limits

Japanese war crimes of World War II

agreement between the United Kingdom, Japan, France, Italy and the United States, signed on 22 April 1930, which regulated submarine warfare and limited naval shipbuilding

air arm of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II

1943 American military operation to kill Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto

1945 anime film directed by Mitsuyo Seo

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former Japanese government ministry (1872–1945)

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highest organ within the Imperial Japanese Navy

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Atrocity in the Pacific Theater of World War II

1942 bombing of Oahu by Japanese flying boats during WW2

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thumb|Statue of Fukuryu Diver wielding explosive mine weapon (also known as suicide divers and kamikaze frogmen) were a part of the Japanese Special Attack Units prepared to resist the invasion of Japan's Home islands by Allied forces. Six thousand men were planned to be trained and equipped with diving equipment for the role. They would use attack mines affixed to bamboo poles. Plans also included reinforced concrete stations to protect men from the explosions. Only twelve hundred men had been trained when Japan surrendered before the invasion of the Japanese mainland occurred.

Imperial Japanese Navy ship with extremely inhumane living conditions

1882 Japanese military ethics code

1937 Japanese military song

right|thumb|Women stitching for men going to war in China, 1937 A or one thousand stitch is a belt or strip of cloth stitched 1,000 times and given as a Shinto amulet by Japanese women and imperial subjects to soldiers going away to war.

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Japanese naval armament strategy

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staff college of the Imperial Japanese Navy

first of four Imperial Japanese naval Expansion plans

ciphers used by the Imperial Japanese Navy in World War II

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special attack units used by the Japanese military near the end of World War II

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political faction of the Imperial Japanese Navy

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series of submarine voyages undertaken by the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Second World War, to exchange technology, skills and materials with Japan's Axis partners

second of four Imperial Japanese naval Expansion plans

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operating division of the Ministry of the Navy of Japan

third of four Imperial Japanese naval Expansion plans

final of four Imperial Japanese naval Expansion plans

shipbuilding subsidiary of Kawasaki Heavy Industries

Japanese colonial navy base in Korea