[DesertRhino]

It’s a vanity project for them. The stinging defeat at Tsushima was not too far in the past. But even we and the British, navy nations, had our hands VERY full in beating the Japanese Navy. The Russians never could have done it.

Nations like us, the Brits, the Japanese, all need powerful navies.

[jmacusa]

After Midway the Japanese Navy was no longer a serious threat. Midway was the American navy's greatest victory. The Brits had nothing to do with that. After the battles of the Philippines in 1944 the Japanese Navy virtually ceased to exist.