Overview of the Japanese Battleship Hizen

Historical Context

During the mid-1930s, the Imperial Japanese Navy was engaged in a clandestine race to build the most formidable battleships of their time. This era was characterized by naval treaties such as the Washington Naval Treaty and the London Naval Treaty, which were, in part, aimed at limiting a post-World War I arms race. Despite these treaties, many nations, including Japan, engaged in discrete naval expansion a...