The building of Imperial Japanese
Naval Academy
was a school established to train officers for the
Imperial Japanese Navy.
It 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 commissioned as
midshipmen, attaining the rank of
ensign 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
site now serves as the location for Officer Candidate School of the
Japan Maritime
Self-Defense Force.
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