list of ships of the japanese navy

This is the list of ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, including ones in the past and ones in the present time.

Early warships

Red seal ships - Around 350 armed sailships, commissionned by the Bakufu in the early 17th century, for Asian and South-East Asian trade.
San Juan Bautista (1614) - One of Japan's first Western-style sail warships, and the first to cross the Pacific Ocean
Shōhei Maru (1854) - Japan's first post-seclusion Western-style sail warship.
Kanrin Maru (1855) - Japan's first screw-driven steam warship
Kaiyō Maru (1866)
Kaiten
Banryo
Chiyodagata
Chogei
Shinsoku
Mikaho
Yoharu
Haruhi
Hiryu
Teibo
Ryujo (1864) - Armored corvette
Hiei class - Armored corvettes

Hiei (1877)
Kongo (1877)

Heien (1882, ex-Chinese, captured 1895) - Armored gunboat

Battleships

Kotetsu (1864) - Japan's first ironclad warship, later renamed Azuma
Fuso (1877)
Chin'en (1882, ex-Chinese Chen Yuan, captured 1895) - BU 1914

Fuji class

Fuji (1896) - BU 1948
Yashima (1896) - Mined 1904

Shikishima class

Shikishima (1898) - BU 1948
Hatsuse (1899) - Mined 1904

Asahi (1899) - Sunk 1942
Mikasa (1900) - Preserved
Captured in 1905:

Iki (1889, ex-Russian Imperator Nikolai I)
Tango (1892, ex-Russian Poltava) - BU 1923
Sagami (1898, ex-Russian Peresviet)
Suwo (1900, ex-Russian Pobieda)
Hizen (1900, ex-Russian Retvizan)
Iwami (1902, ex-Russian Orel)
Mishima (1894, ex-Russian Admiral Senyavin)
Okinoshima (1896, ex-Russian General-Admiral Graf Apraxin)

Katori class

Katori (1905)
Kashima (1905)

Satsuma class

Satsuma (1906) - Scuttled 1924
Aki (1907)

Kawachi class

Kawachi (1910)
Settsu (1911)

Kongo class - Battlecruisers rebuilt as fast battleships

Kongo (1912)
Hiei (1912)
Haruna (1913)
Kirishima (1913)

Fuso class

Fuso (1914)
Yamashiro (1915)

Ise class

Ise (1916)
Hyuga (1917)

Nagato class

Nagato (1919)
Mutsu (1920)

Battleship prizes of World War I

ex-Turkish Torgud Reis, ex-German Weissenburg, assigned but not taken over) - BU 1938
ex-German Nassau) BU
ex-German Oldenburg) - BU 1921

Kaga class

Kaga (1921, converted to an aircraft carrier)
Tosa (not completed)

Yamato class

Yamato (1940)
Musashi (1940)
Shinano (converted to an aircraft carrier)

Aircraft carriers

Hosho (1921)
Kaga (1921)
Akagi (1925)
Ryujo (1931)
Ryuho (1933)
Shinyo (1934)
Soryu class

Soryu (1935)
Hiryu (1937)

Zuiho class

Shoho (1935)
Zuiho (1936)

Chitose class

Chitose (1936)
Chiyoda (1937)

Kaiyo (1938)
Shokaku class

Shokaku (1939)
Zuikaku (1939)

Junyo class

Junyo (1939)
Hiyo (1939)

Taiyo class

Unyo (1939)
Chuyo (1939)
Taiyo (1940)

Akitsu Maru class

Akitsu Maru (1941)
Nigitsu Maru (1942)

Taiho (1943)
Unryu class

Amagi (1943)
Unryu (1943)
Katsuragi (1944)
Kasagi (not completed)
Aso (not completed)
Ikoma (not completed)

Shinano (1944)
Shinane Maru class

Shimane Maru (1944)
Otakisan Maru (not completed)

Yamashiro Maru class

Yamashiro Maru (1944)
Chigusa Maru (not completed)

Kumano Maru (1945)

Cruisers

Small cruisers

Sai Yen (1883, ex-Chinese)
Izumi (1883)
Naniwa class

Naniwa (1885)
Takachiho (1885)

Unebi (1886)
Matsushima class

Itsukushima (1889)
Matsushima (1890)
Hashidate (1891)

Akitsushima (1892)
Yoshino (1892)
Akashi class

Suma (1895)
Akashi (1897)

Takasago (1897)
Chitose class

Chitose (1898)
Kasagi (1898)

Tsushima class

Tsushima (1902)
Niitaka (1902)

Otowa (1903)
Tone (1904)
Tsugaru (1899, ex-Russian Pallada, captured 1905)
Soya (1899, ex-Russian Varyag, captured 1905)
Suzuyu (1900, ex-Russian Novik, captured 1905)
Yodo class

Yodo (1907)
Mogami (1908)

Chikuma class

Chikuma (1911)
Hirado (1911)
Yahagi (1911)

Tenryu class

Tenryu (1918)
Tatsuta (1918)

Kuma class

Kuma (1919)
Tama (1920)
Kitakami (1920)
Oi (1920)
Kiso (1920)

Y (1909, ex-German Augsburg, taken 1920)
Nagara class

Nagara (1921)
Isuzu (1921)
Yura (1922)
Natori (1922)
Kinu (1922)
Abukuma (1922)

Sendai class

Sendai (1923)
Jintsu (1923)
Naka (1925)

Yubari (1923)
Chinese Ning Hai class

Ioshima (ex-Ning Hai) (1931)
Yasoshima (ex-P'ing Hai) (1935)

Katori class

Katori (1939)
Kashima (1939)
Kashii (1940)
Kashiwara (not completed)

Agano class

Agano (1941)
Yahagi (1942)
Noshiro (1942)
Sakawa (1944)

Oyodo class

Oyodo (1942)
Niyodo (not completed)

Large cruisers

Chiyoda (1890)
Asama class

Asama (1898)
Tokiwa (1898)
Izumo (1899)
Iwate (1900)

Yakumo (1899)
Azuma (1899)
Kasuga class

Kasuga (1902)
Nisshin (1903)

Aso (1900, ex-Russian Bayan, captured 1905)
Tsukuba class (note: the IJN classified these as battlecruisers but they lacked the big guns of battlecruisers proper)