List Japanese cruisers

small cruisers

  • Sai Yen (1883, ex-Chinese)
  • Izumi (1883)
  • class Naniwa
    • Naniwa (1885)
    • Takachiho (1885)
  • Unebi (1886)
  • class Matsushima
    • Matsushima (1889)
    • Hashidate (1892)
    • Itsukushima (1891)
  • Akitsushima (1892)
  • Yoshino (1892)
  • class Akashi
  • class Suma
    • Suma (1895)
    • Akashi (1897)
  • Takasago (1897)
  • class Chitose
    • Chitose (1898)
    • Kasagi (1898)
  • class Tsushima
    • Tsushima (1902)
    • Niitaka (1902)
  • Otowa (1903)
  • Ton (1904)
  • Tsugaru (1899, ex-Russian Pallada, captured in 1905)
  • Soya (1899, ex-Russian Varyag, captured in 1905)
  • Suzuyu (1900, ex-Russian Novik, captured in 1905)
  • class Yodo
    • Yodo (1907)
    • Mogami (1908)
  • class Chikuma
    • Chikuma (1911)
    • Hirado (1911)
    • Yahagi (1911)

armoured cruisers

  • Chiyoda (1890)
  • class Asama
    • Asama (1898)
    • Tokiwa (1898)
    • Izumo (1899)
    • Iwate (1900)
    • Yakumo (1899)
    • Azuma (1899)
  • class Kasuga (Italian class Giuseppe Garibaldi modified)
    • Kasuga (1902)
    • Nisshin (1903)
  • Aso (1900, ex-Russian Bayan, captured in 1905)
  • Tsukuba class (classified in the cruisers of battle in spite of their average armament)
    • Tsukuba (1906)
    • Ikoma (1905)
  • classify Ibuki (classified in the cruisers of battle in spite of their average armament)
    • Ibuki (1907)
    • Kurama (1907)

cruisers of battle

  • Kongo class (reconverted in the fast battleships during the years 1920)
    • Kongo (1912) - torpedoed and explodes in 1944
    • Hiei (1912) - run in 1942
    • Haruna (1913) - bombarded in 1945, DRUNK 1946
    • Kirishima (1913) damaged and scuttled in 1942
  • class Amagi
    • Amagi (destroyed in its dry hold by an earthquake, whereas it was to be reconverted in the aircraft carrier, the battleship Kaga, will replace it and will be also reconverted in the aircraft carrier)
    • Akagi (reconverted in the aircraft carrier)
    • Atago (not launched)
    • Takao (not launched)
    • totica

light cruisers

  • class Tenryu
    • Tenryu (1918)
    • Tatsuta (1918)
  • Kuma class -
    • Kuma (1919)
    • Tama (1920)
    • Kitakami (1920)
    • Oi (1920)
    • Kiso (1920)
  • Y (1909, ex-German Augsburg , taken in 1920)
  • class Nagara
    • Nagara (1921)
    • Isuzu (1921)
    • Yura (1922)
    • Natori (1922)
    • Kinu (1922)
    • Abukuma (1922)
  • Yubari (1923 )
  • class Sendai
    • Sendai (1923)
    • Jintsu (1923)
    • Naka (1925)
  • Chinese class Ning Hai
    • Ioshima (ex-Chinese Ning Hai) (1931)
    • Yasoshima (ex-Chinese P' ing Hai) (1935)
  • class Katori
    • Katori (1939)
    • Kashima (1939)
    • Kashii (1940)
    • Kashiwara (not supplemented)
  • class Agano
    • Agano (1941)
    • Yahagi (1942)
    • Noshiro (1942)
    • Sakawa (1944)
  • class Oyodo- 2 ships (1941?)
    • Oyodo (1942)
    • Niyodo (not supplemented)

heavy cruisers

  • class Furutaka
    • Furutaka (1925)
    • Kako (1925)
  • class Aoba
    • Aoba (1926)
    • Kinugasa (1926)
  • class Myoko
    • Myoko (1927)
    • Nachi (1927)
    • Ashigara (1928)
    • Haguro (1928)
  • class Takao
    • Takao (1930)
    • Maya (1930)
    • Atago (1930)
    • Chokai (1931)
  • Mogami class (in the beginning was to be light cruisers with triple turrets of 152 mm, modified during construction with double turrets of 203 mm)
    • Mogami (1934)
    • Mikuma (1934)
    • Suzuya (1934)
    • Kumano (1936)
  • class Thunders
    • Tone (1937)
    • Chikuma (1938)
  • Ibuki (1943, converted into aircraft carrier)
    • (No 301) (not launched)

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