Imperial Japanese Naval Academy

The was a school established to train line officers for the Imperial Japanese Navy. It was originally located in Nagasaki, moved to Yokohama in 1866, and was relocated to Tsukiji, Tokyo in 1869. It moved to Etajima, Hiroshima in 1888. Students studied for three or four years, and upon graduation were ordered (warranted) as Midshipmen, commissioned to the rank of Ensign/Acting Sub-Lieutenant after a period of active duty and an overseas cruise. In 1943, a separate school for naval aviation was opened in Iwakuni, and in 1944, another naval aviation school was established in Maizuru. The Academy was closed in 1945, when the Imperial Japanese Navy was abolished. The Naval Academy Etajima opened in 1956 and the site now serves as the location for Officer Candidate School of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force.

See also

Imperial Japanese Army Academy

Army War College

Imperial Japanese Army Air Force Academy

Imperial Japanese Navy

Imperial Japanese Naval Engineering College

Naval War College

Recruitment in the Imperial Japanese Navy

List of graduates of the Japanese Imperial Military Academies

Naval Academy Etajima

Gosei (meditation) - Academy's motto in most of the classes

Pilot training in the Imperial Japanese Navy

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Educational institutions established in 1866

Educational institutions disestablished in 1945

Imperial Japanese Navy

Naval academies

Naval history of Japan

Defunct Japanese military academies

1866 establishments in Japan