Etajima base (JMSDF Etajima Naval Base) in

Etajima , also called , ''Nomijima'', ''Nomi Island'', or is an island in Hiroshima Bay located in southwestern Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. The mess with island name originates from the ancient (and possibly legendary) strait at now town . Geography Th ...

city,

Hiroshima prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region of Honshu. Hiroshima Prefecture has a population of 2,811,410 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of 8,479 km² (3,274 sq mi). Hiroshima Prefecture borders Okayama Prefecture to the ...

is in the Etajima-cho government building and is the base of the

Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force , abbreviated , also simply known as the Japanese Navy, is the maritime warfare branch of the Japan Self-Defense Forces, tasked with the naval defense of Japan. The JMSDF was formed following the dissolution of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJ ...

. Beside housing the 1st Technical School and the Officer Candidates School, it is home to the local

Kure Naval District was the second of four main administrative districts of the pre-war Imperial Japanese Navy. Its territory included the Inland Sea of Japan and the Pacific coasts of southern Honshū from Wakayama to Yamaguchi prefectures, eastern and norther ...

, LCAC training facilities, and Self-Defense Force oil storage. In addition, the

Special Forces Special forces and special operations forces (SOF) are military units trained to conduct special operations. NATO has defined special operations as "military activities conducted by specially designated, organized, selected, trained and equi ...

of the Maritime Self Defense Force is here.

History

The predecessor of the Etajima base was the branch officer training system of the

Imperial Japanese Naval Academy The was a school established to train line officers for the Imperial Japanese Navy. It was originally located in Nagasaki, moved to Yokohama in 1866, and was relocated to Tsukiji, Tokyo in 1869. It moved to Etajima, Hiroshima in 1888. Students st ...

. The Naval Academy moved to Etajima from Tsukiji,

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in 1888. The current academy was re-established in 1956. Before

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, the

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and

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were called the “worldwide 3 large service academies”. Many of the facilities of the Naval Academy are used by the 1st Technical School and the Officer Candidate School.

Agency unit arrangement

* The Maritime Self Defense Force 1st Technical School * The Maritime Self Defense Force Officer Candidate School * The 31st Fleet Air Wing * The target plane service area * The Special guard (Maritime Self Defense Force) * The Etajima police duty casual detachment * The Kure structure learning/repairing depot * The Hitonose oil storage branch * The Kure ammunition storehouse and maintenance depot * The 1st Technical School sick bay JMSDF-Officer-Candidate-School-Former-Japanese-Naval-Academy

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The Naval History Museum

The Naval History Museum is a building of reinforced concrete that was constructed in 1936. It holds artifacts of Heihachiro Togo,

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and

Isoroku Yamamoto was a Marshal Admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) and the commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet during World War II until he was killed. Yamamoto held several important posts in the IJN, and undertook many of its changes and reor ...

, as well as a book of naval officers which holds more than 10,000 names. Inside the site is a

midget submarine A midget submarine (also called a mini submarine) is any submarine under 150 tons, typically operated by a crew of one or two but sometimes up to six or nine, with little or no on-board living accommodation. They normally work with mother ships, ...

that was used in the

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; artifacts from the

Japanese battleship Yamato was the lead ship of her class of battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) shortly before World War II. She and her sister ship, , were the heaviest and most powerfully armed battleships ever constructed, displacing nearly a ...

and the

Japanese battleship Mutsu ''Mutsu'' (陸奥) was the second and last dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) at the end of World War I. It was named after the province. In 1923 she carried supplies for the survivors of the Great Kantō earth ...

are on display.

External links

Maritime Self Defense Force 1st Technical School

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History

Agency unit arrangement

The Naval History Museum

See also

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