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1910

[Japanese Admiral and ship]

By 1920, the Imperial Japanese Navy was the world's third largest navy, after the United States Navy and the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom

With the Meiji Restoration in the latter half of the 19th century, the Japanese Navy was rapidly modernized. This was to overcome effects of the policy of international seclusion followed by the shoguns of the prceding Edo period that began in the 17th century. During the Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895),