Naval College (Japan)

Department of the Navy and University of the Navy on a postcard from around 1900

The naval college ( Japanese 海軍大学校 , Kaigun Daigakkō , short: 海大 , Kaidai ) was founded in 1888 as part of the development of a modern navy in the Japanese Empire in Tsukiji in the Tokyo district of Chūō . In the same year the Naval Academy ( 海軍兵学校 Kaigun Heigakkō ) was moved from Tsukiji to Etajima , Hiroshima Prefecture .

The original seat of the naval college at today's Tsukiji fish market was badly damaged in the great Kanto earthquake in 1923. In 1932 she moved to Kamiōsaki in Shinagawa . The naval college was dissolved after the surrender of Japan in 1945.

Many admirals of the Imperial Japanese Navy graduated from the Naval College, including the later Prime Ministers Katō Tomosaburō and Okada Keisuke .

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