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	The origins of the IJN date back to early interactions with nations on the Asian continent, beginning in the early feudal period. After two centuries of stagnation during the country's ensuing seclusion policy under the ''shōgun'' of the Edo period, Japan's navy was comparatively antiquated when the country was forced open to trade by American intervention in 1854. This eventually led to the Meiji Restoration. Accompanying the re-ascendance of the Emperor came a period of frantic modernization and industrialization, and ~~the~~ the establishment of the IJN in july 1869. The IJN saw several successes in combat during the early twentieth century, sometimes against much more powerful enemies, such as in the Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War.		The origins of the IJN date back to early interactions with nations on the Asian continent, beginning in the early feudal period. After two centuries of stagnation during the country's ensuing seclusion policy under the ''shōgun'' of the Edo period, Japan's navy was comparatively antiquated when the country was forced open to trade by American intervention in 1854. This eventually led to the Meiji Restoration. Accompanying the re-ascendance of the Emperor came a period of frantic modernization and industrialization, and the establishment of the IJN in july 1869. The IJN saw several successes in combat during the early twentieth century, sometimes against much more powerful enemies, such as in the Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War.

	By the 1920s, the Imperial Japanese Navy was the third largest navy in the world, behind the Royal Navy and the United States Navy (USN). It was supported by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service for reconnaissance and airstrike operations from the fleet. The IJN additionally fielded limited land-based forces, including professional marines, marine paratrooper units, anti-aircraft defense units, installation and port security units, naval police units, and ad-hoc formations of sailors pressed into service as naval infantry.		By the 1920s, the Imperial Japanese Navy was the third largest navy in the world, behind the Royal Navy and the United States Navy (USN). It was supported by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service for reconnaissance and airstrike operations from the fleet. The IJN additionally fielded limited land-based forces, including professional marines, marine paratrooper units, anti-aircraft defense units, installation and port security units, naval police units, and ad-hoc formations of sailors pressed into service as naval infantry.

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	=== Pre-First Scinfaxi War ===		=== Pre-First Scinfaxi War ===
	The origins of the IJN date back to early interactions with nations on the Asian continent, beginning in the early feudal period. After two centuries of stagnation during the country's ensuing seclusion policy under the ''shōgun'' of the Edo period, Japan's navy was comparatively antiquated when the country was forced open to trade by American intervention in 1854. This eventually led to the Meiji Restoration. Accompanying the re-ascendance of the Emperor came a period of frantic modernization and industrialization. The IJN saw several successes in combat during the early twentieth century, sometimes against much more powerful enemies, such as in the Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War.		The origins of the IJN date back to early interactions with nations on the Asian continent, beginning in the early feudal period. After two centuries of stagnation during the country's ensuing seclusion policy under the ''shōgun'' of the Edo period, Japan's navy was comparatively antiquated when the country was forced open to trade by American intervention in 1854. This eventually led to the Meiji Restoration. Accompanying the re-ascendance of the Emperor came a period of frantic modernization and industrialization, and the the establishment of the IJN in july 1869. The IJN saw several successes in combat during the early twentieth century, sometimes against much more powerful enemies, such as in the Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War.

	By the 1920s, the Imperial Japanese Navy was the third largest navy in the world, behind the Royal Navy and the United States Navy (USN). It was supported by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service for reconnaissance and airstrike operations from the fleet. The IJN additionally fielded limited land-based forces, including professional marines, marine paratrooper units, anti-aircraft defense units, installation and port security units, naval police units, and ad-hoc formations of sailors pressed into service as naval infantry.		By the 1920s, the Imperial Japanese Navy was the third largest navy in the world, behind the Royal Navy and the United States Navy (USN). It was supported by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service for reconnaissance and airstrike operations from the fleet. The IJN additionally fielded limited land-based forces, including professional marines, marine paratrooper units, anti-aircraft defense units, installation and port security units, naval police units, and ad-hoc formations of sailors pressed into service as naval infantry.

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{{Organization|country=[[File:JapanFlag.png|text-bottom|x15px]] [[ Empire of Japan|Japan]]|type=Navy|role=Interstellar warfare|establishment=1869 (415 years)}}The '''''Imperial Japanese Navy''''' '''(IJN)''' is the interstellar service branch of the [[French Armed Forces|Imperial Japanese Armed Forces]].

== History ==

=== Pre-First Scinfaxi War ===
The origins of the IJN date back to early interactions with nations on the Asian continent, beginning in the early feudal period. After two centuries of stagnation during the country's ensuing seclusion policy under the ''shōgun'' of the Edo period, Japan's navy was comparatively antiquated when the country was forced open to trade by American intervention in 1854. This eventually led to the Meiji Restoration. Accompanying the re-ascendance of the Emperor came a period of frantic modernization and industrialization. The IJN saw several successes in combat during the early twentieth century, sometimes against much more powerful enemies, such as in the Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War.

By the 1920s, the Imperial Japanese Navy was the third largest navy in the world, behind the Royal Navy and the United States Navy (USN). It was supported by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service for reconnaissance and airstrike operations from the fleet. The IJN additionally fielded limited land-based forces, including professional marines, marine paratrooper units, anti-aircraft defense units, installation and port security units, naval police units, and ad-hoc formations of sailors pressed into service as naval infantry.

=== 23rd Century ===
In 2273, the Japanese navy began construction of the Sakurajima class heavy cruiser in response to Soviet naval developments.

== References ==

# [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKK_qLALBaE&t=1309s "Konigsberg Class Heavy Cruiser"]. ''Champlain Group''.