List Of Cruiser Classes Of The Imperial Japanese Navy
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Armoured cruisers (''Sōkō jun'yōkan'')

Note that the four ''Tsukuba'' and ''Ibuki'' class armoured cruisers were re-classed as "battlecruisers" by the Imperial Japanese Navy in 1912.


Battlecruisers (''jun'yōsenkan'')


Heavy cruisers (''jū jun'yōkan'')


Protected cruisers (''Bōgo jun'yōkan'') & unprotected cruisers (''Mubōbina jun'yōkan'')


Light cruisers (''Kei jun'yōkan'')


See also

* List of Japanese battleships * List of Japanese battlecruisers *
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