List of battleships of Japan

This is a list of Japanese Navy battleships from 1860 to 1945.

Dates are launching dates.

Early battleships

 * JAPANESE IRONCLAD Fusō (1877) - BU 1910
 * JAPANESE BATTLESHIP Chin'en (1882) (ex-Chinese CHINESE TURRET SHIP Zhenyuan, captured 1895) - BU 1914

Pre-Dreadnoughts

 * JAPANESE BATTLESHIP Fuji (1896) - BU 1948
 * JAPANESE BATTLESHIP Yashima (1896) - Mined 1904
 * JAPANESE BATTLESHIP Shikishima (1898) - BU 1948
 * JAPANESE BATTLESHIP Hatsuse (1899) - Mined 1904
 * JAPANESE BATTLESHIP Asahi (1899) - Sunk 1942
 * JAPANESE BATTLESHIP Mikasa (1900) - Preserved Yokosuka
 * JAPANESE BATTLESHIP Iki (1889) (ex-Russian RUSSIAN BATTLESHIP Imperator Nikolai I, captured 1905) - sunk as target 1915
 * JAPANESE BATTLESHIP Tango (1894) (ex-Russian RUSSIAN BATTLESHIP Poltava, captured 1905) - BU 1923
 * JAPANESE BATTLESHIP Sagami (1898) (ex-Russian RUSSIAN BATTLESHIP Peresvet, captured 1905)
 * JAPANESE BATTLESHIP Suwo (1900) (ex-Russian RUSSIAN BATTLESHIP Pobeda, captured 1905)
 * JAPANESE BATTLESHIP Hizen (1900) (ex-Russian RUSSIAN BATTLESHIP Retvizan, captured 1905)
 * JAPANESE BATTLESHIP Iwami (1902) (ex-Russian RUSSIAN BATTLESHIP Oryol, captured 1905)
 * JAPANESE BATTLESHIP Mishima (1894) (ex-Russian RUSSIAN COAST DEFENSE SHIP Admiral Seniavin, captured 1905)
 * JAPANESE BATTLESHIP Okinoshima (1896) (ex-Russian RUSSIAN COAST DEFENSE SHIP General Admiral Graf Apraksin, captured 1905)
 * JAPANESE BATTLESHIP Katori (1905) - scrapped 1924
 * JAPANESE BATTLESHIP Kashima (1905) - scrapped 1924
 * JAPANESE BATTLESHIP Satsuma (1906) - Scuttled 1924
 * JAPANESE BATTLESHIP Aki (1907) - Sunk 1924
 * JAPANESE BATTLESHIP Kawachi (1910) - sunk 1918
 * JAPANESE BATTLESHIP Settsu (1911) - scrapped 1947
 * JAPANESE BATTLESHIP Satsuma (1906) - Scuttled 1924
 * JAPANESE BATTLESHIP Aki (1907) - Sunk 1924
 * JAPANESE BATTLESHIP Kawachi (1910) - sunk 1918
 * JAPANESE BATTLESHIP Settsu (1911) - scrapped 1947
 * JAPANESE BATTLESHIP Settsu (1911) - scrapped 1947

Dreadnoughts and post-Treaty battleships

 * JAPANESE BATTLESHIP Kongō
 * JAPANESE BATTLESHIP Hiei
 * JAPANESE BATTLESHIP Kirishima
 * JAPANESE BATTLESHIP Haruna
 * JAPANESE BATTLESHIP Haruna


 * JAPANESE BATTLESHIP Fusō (1914) - Sunk October 1944 in Battle of Leyte Gulf.
 * JAPANESE BATTLESHIP Yamashiro (1915) - Sunk October 1944 in Battle of Leyte Gulf.
 * JAPANESE BATTLESHIP Yamashiro (1915) - Sunk October 1944 in Battle of Leyte Gulf.


 * JAPANESE BATTLESHIP Ise - Bombed 1945, refloated, BU
 * JAPANESE BATTLESHIP Hyūga - Bombed 1945, refloated, BU
 * JAPANESE BATTLESHIP Hyūga - Bombed 1945, refloated, BU


 * JAPANESE BATTLESHIP Mutsu - Blew up in harbor (magazine explosion?) 1943
 * JAPANESE BATTLESHIP Nagato - Sunk following Bikini atomic experiments 1946
 * JAPANESE BATTLESHIP Nagato - Sunk following Bikini atomic experiments 1946


 * JAPANESE BATTLESHIP Tosa - incomplete, scuttled 1925
 * JAPANESE AIRCRAFT CARRIER Kaga - completed as aircraft carrier, sunk June 1942 at the Battle of Midway.
 * JAPANESE AIRCRAFT CARRIER Kaga - completed as aircraft carrier, sunk June 1942 at the Battle of Midway.


 * (only Akagi completed, but as an aircraft carrier)
 * JAPANESE BATTLECRUISER Amagi - badly damaged in the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake
 * JAPANESE AIRCRAFT CARRIER Akagi - sunk June 1942 at the Battle of Midway.
 * Takao - scrapped incomplete
 * Atago - scrapped incomplete


 * (design only)
 * Kii
 * Owari
 * Suruga
 * Omi


 * Dreadnought No. 13 - No. 16 (no names, plan only)
 * Dreadnought No. 13 - No. 16 (no names, plan only)


 * JAPANESE BATTLESHIP Yamato (1940) - Sunk in route to Okinawa April, 1945
 * JAPANESE BATTLESHIP Musashi (1940) - Sunk October 1944 in Battle of Leyte Gulf.
 * JAPANESE AIRCRAFT CARRIER Shinano (converted to an aircraft carrier, as the Shinano class) - Sunk by submarine torpedo attack November 1944.
 * No. 111 (Kii?) (scrapped while under construction)
 * No. 797 (design-only)
 * No. 797 (design-only)


 * A-150 project
 * Warship No. 798 - No. 799 (no names, plan-only)

Note: BU = Broken Up date