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What Happened to the Japanese Navy After WW2

August 1945. The Imperial Japanese Navy that struck Pearl Harbor four years earlier lay in ruins across the Pacific. The question haunting planners wasn't what had been destroyed, but what would happen to what remained. The answer would reshape Japan and the balance of power in Asia for decades. To understand what was lost, we need to grasp what the Imperial Japanese Navy had been. In December 1941, when Japanese carriers launched their aircraft toward Pearl Harbor, they represented one of the most formidable naval forces ever assembled. The fleet included battleships like the Yamato, the largest ever built, with guns so powerful they could fire a shell weighing as much as a small car over twenty miles. Japan possessed aircraft carriers that had perfected the art of naval aviation. Their destroyers were fast and deadly. Their submarines prowled the Pacific. Their naval aviators were among the best-trained in the world.