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Katori Maru (1913)
''Katori Maru'' was a steamship, steam ocean liner of the Empire of Japan. She was built in Nagasaki in 1912–13. In the World War II, Second World War the Imperial Japanese Navy requisitioned her as a Troopship, troop ship. In 1941 a Royal Netherlands Navy submarine sank her off the coast of Raj of Sarawak, Sarawak. Her wreck was found in 2003. It had become an artificial reef and became a scuba diving destination. In 2013 divers removed historic artifacts from the wreck, and in 2016 salvage vessels destroyed most of the wreck for its scrap metal. Today little of the wreck remains except the bow. Several Japanese ships have been called ''Katori'' or ''Katori Maru'', and the Japanese Navy had more than one transport ship of this name in the Second World War. In 1925 Islam in China, Chinese Muslims used the ship to travel to Singapore on their way to Mecca for the Hajj. Building Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Mitsubishi Dockyard and Engineering Works built ''Katori Maru'' in Na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north toward the East China Sea, Philippine Sea, and Taiwan in the south. Japan is a part of the Ring of Fire, and spans Japanese archipelago, an archipelago of List of islands of Japan, 6852 islands covering ; the five main islands are Hokkaido, Honshu (the "mainland"), Shikoku, Kyushu, and Okinawa Island, Okinawa. Tokyo is the Capital of Japan, nation's capital and largest city, followed by Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Kobe, and Kyoto. Japan is the List of countries and dependencies by population, eleventh most populous country in the world, as well as one of the List of countries and dependencies by population density, most densely populated and Urbanization by country, urbanized. About three-fourths of Geography of Japan, the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
