Talk:Naval history of Japan

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Comment made by Togo following the battle of Tsushima "自分は李舜臣将軍には遠く及ばない" "General Yi Sunsin far surpasses myself", mentionned in "図説東郷平八郎、目で見える明治の海軍", 東郷神社・東郷会" ("Togo Heihachiro. Visual account of the Meiji Navy", Tokyo Shrine-Togo Association publications).

I checked this book by myself but cound not find the corresponding sentence. There are many urban legends about Yi Sunsin [1] and this story is type a. If you want to reinstate it, you have to provice a source that was made immediately after the alleged event. --Nanshu 00:43, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Clean-Up

A very nice start; I'm glad to finally have an article on this subject. It does, however, need a lot of work. There seems to be a disproportionate focus in the pre-modern section on Korea, as references are made to Korean sources and to Korean names for battles. The section on the 16th-19th centuries is disproportionately devoted to Western influences.

There needs to be significant expansion on (a) developments in tactics and technology during the Sengoku period, (b) an overall narrative of tactical and technological developments, and (c) these same developments in the Meiji through WWII periods. As it stands now, I'm very happy that the article isn't dominated by the kind of treatment some WWII buffs might lean towards, but it errs on the opposite side and is too brief I think.

I hope to come back to this and do some of this expansion on my own. Just thought I might help out whoever's working on this page by voicing my concerns. Cheers. LordAmeth 23:58, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Hi LordAmeth. The post-1869 is rather slim as it is treated in Imperial Japanese Navy. Please do expand where you see fit, without deleting existing material if possible. Regards PHG 03:44, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Okay. I really feel that the list of European attempts at intrusion into Japan doesn't belong here. It's valuable in its own way, but is simply not that essential to what is supposed to be a general overview of Japan's naval history. Could we move this to a separate article, list style or otherwise? LordAmeth 12:11, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Hi LordAmeth. You may be right. I improved the link to Sakoku, where the full list already is. PHG 12:18, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Awesome. Thank you. LordAmeth 13:13, 10 April 2007 (UTC)