Thesis
ETAJIMA: NAVAL OFFICER DEVELOPMENT IN IMPERIAL JAPAN
Washington State University
Master of Arts (MA), Washington State University
12/2024
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7273/000007256
Abstract
Founded in 1888, the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy at Etajima was the culmination of a three decade long period of naval educational development that spanned the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate (1603 to 1868) and the restoration of Imperial power under the Meiji Emperor (reigned from 30 January 1867 to 30 July 1912) . In the time since its founding, the vast majority of commissioned officers in both the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) and the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force (JMSDF) have been graduates of the Etajima Academy. As a result, the Etajima Academy has been the single most important influence on the development and character of the Japanese sea services for the past 135 years. Given this fact, there is surprisingly little information to be found in English language sources concerning the Academy and its influence on both the IJN and the JMSDF. By shedding more light on the training of Japanese naval officers, the primary purpose of this project is to better understand the development of the officer corps within the IJN. By examining the history of officer development within the IJN this project also attempts to understand the confluence of influences that made the Japanese officer corps and the IJN a distinct and powerful player on the world stage.
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Details
- Title
- ETAJIMA
- Creators
- Thomas G. Ernst
- Contributors
- William P Brecher (Chair)Noriko Kawamura (Committee Member)Raymond Sun (Committee Member)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Department of History
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Arts (MA), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University
- Number of pages
- 95
- Identifiers
- 99901195637701842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Thesis