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Originally published in Japan in 2005, each album in The Japanese Naval Warship photo album series contains official photographs taken by the Kure Maritime Museum, as well as those taken by private individuals.

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Aircraft Carriers and Seaplane Carriers is an impressive image repository and a most welcome addition to the English language historiography of the Imperial Japanese Navy. The rendered size and clarity of a majority of the images is impressive, with the earlier glass plate negative pictures offering incredibly sharp levels of detail. The inclusion of gunboats and dispatch vessels alongside the more well know carriers of the IJN further illustrates the variety of vessels built, seized, or converted by the Japanese Navy of 1868 to 1945, and the chronological nature of the layout gives a visual record of design changes and evolutions across both vessel types and some individual vessels as well. For those interested in carriers, gunboats, or dispatch vessels of the Imperial Japanese Navy, this is an excellent visual source for a variety of rare construction, operation, and final disposition images. --The Northern Mariner / Le marin du nord

Aircraft Carriers and Seaplane Carriers is an impressive image repository and a most welcome addition to the English language historiography of the Imperial Japanese Navy. The rendered size and clarity of a majority of the images is impressive, with the earlier glass plate negative pictures offering incredibly sharp levels of detail. The inclusion of gunboats and dispatch vessels alongside the more well know carriers of the IJN further illustrates the variety of vessels built, seized, or converted by the Japanese Navy of 1868 to 1945, and the chronological nature of the layout gives a visual record of design changes and evolutions across both vessel types and some individual vessels as well. For those interested in carriers, gunboats, or dispatch vessels of the Imperial Japanese Navy, this is an excellent visual source for a variety of rare construction, operation, and final disposition images. --The Northern Mariner / Le marin du nord

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The Kure Maritime Museum is located in Kure City, Hiroshima Province. It is also known as the Yamato Museum. The collection focuses on the people of Kure, culture and industries, primarily shipbuilding and steelmaking. The museum houses over 20,000 Imperial Japanese navy photos. Kazushige Todaka serves as Director of the Kure Maritime Museum. He is the coauthor of several books on the Japanese navy. Robert D. Eldridge is the author of dozens of books in English and Japanese on U.S.-Japanese relations, Okinawa and Japanese politics. He received a Ph.D. in political science from Kobe University. He resides with his family in Japan.

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