87 photos, 202 figures and drawings, 60 tables, and 15 maps and tracks.
The IJN succeeded, after many studies and false starts, in creating the world\'s most heavily armed (nine 18.1" main guns in three trip.
Recognising the impossibility of improving upon the (in)famous 5:5:3 ratio of the Washington Naval Treaty when the expected naval race would begin as the treaty expired, the Imperial Japanese Navy resorted to a strategy of qualitative superiority to overcome the American quantitative edge. 87 photos, 202 figures and drawings, 60 tables, and 15 maps and tracks