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Music Hello everyone and welcome to history of the Second World War members episode number two, an Asian Navy.

While the World Navy had been the strongest navy in the world for generations,

there were new challenges that would have to face after the First World War.

One of these was the growing strength of the Japanese Navy.

The Japanese Navy would explode onto the world stage with the Battle of Tsushima, defeating

the Russian Baltic fleet and proving that they were a match for Western navies.

In the post-war years, the Japanese Navy sought to ensure that their navy was a match for Western navies. In the post-war years, the Japanese Navy

sought to ensure that their Navy was a match for any other nation. The primary threat would

quickly transition to the growing strength of the United States Navy, but of course the actions

of the Royal Navy could not be ignored. In this episode, we will discuss the history of the

Japanese Navy up to the First World War, and then

discuss the Navy's plans for after the conflict was over up until the start of the Washington

Naval Conference.

The modern Japanese Navy traced its roots back to the 1860s.

It was at that point the education and training of officers and men grew an importance as technology became

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