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Today we look at the the Kantai Kessen, the IJN's strategic doctrine for much of the early 20th century, and if it would've worked.Sources:www.amazon.co.uk/K

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kantai_Kessen
Japanese battleships Yamato and Musashi, were a central element of Japan's "Decisive Battle" doctrine. The Decisive Battle Doctrine (艦隊決戦, Kantai Kessen, "naval fleet decisive battle") was a naval strategy adopted by the Imperial Japanese Navy prior to the Second World War.The theory was derived from the writings of American naval historian Alfred Thayer Mahan.

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Japanese naval doctrine favored the idea that an enemy could be defeated in a single decisive battle, this was known as 艦隊決戦 (Kantai Kessen, "naval fleet decisive battle"). The idea was generally accepted following the Battle of Tsushima at the conclusion of the Russo-Japanese war. It would've been especially relevant in a war with the

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The Japanese Navy's Decisive Battle Doctrine ( Kantai Kessen) was the counterpart to the American Plan Orange. The plan assumed that Japan would quickly seize control of most of the Philippines, both to neutralize the Asiatic Fleet before it could attack Japanese communications and to provoke the Americans into a hasty counterattack.

https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Kantai_Kessen
The Decisive Battle Doctrine (艦隊決戦, Kantai Kessen?) was a naval strategy adopted by the Imperial Japanese Navy following the Russo-Japanese War. It called on the use of a strong battleship force, which would destroy an invading fleet as it approached Japan after suffering losses through attrition as it penetrated Japanese perimeter defenses. The decisive victory of the Japanese fleet

https://www.culturefrontier.com/kantai-kessen/
The implementation of "Kantai Kessen" didn't stop at Rabaul. The Japanese also applied it in the Battle of Darwin and in their attempt to destroy the British Eastern Fleet. However, the doctrine had a few weaknesses. The striking force was vulnerable when discovered in the moments before the offensive.

https://militaryhistorynsw.com.au/beyond-the-katai-kessen/
In the 'Kantai Kessen' (decisive naval battle doctrine) the Japanese navy would win a war by fighting and winning a single, decisive naval action. At the beginning of May 1942 Japan prepared to commence a fresh wave of offensive actions in the Southwest Pacific with the ultimate aims of strategically isolating Australia and America while

https://www.histclo.com/essay/war/ww2/sea/pac/misc/ncp-kk.html
Kantai Kessen (decisive battle) Doctrine dominated the thinking of the upper echleons of Japanese naval thinking. This was cemented by the great victory of the fledgling Japanese Imperial Navy commanded by Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō over the Russian Fleet in the Tashima Straits (May 1905). It was Japan's Trafalgar, but unlike the British Royal Navy, the Imperial Navy was a very recent creation

https://thediplomat.com/2016/01/what-if-japan-had-won-the-battle-of-midway/
In accordance with the Imperial Navy's Kantai Kessen, or decisive battle doctrine, Yamamoto and the Imperial Navy's general staff could hope to draw the remaining U.S. carriers into a decisive

https://inthecornermumblinganddrooling.wordpress.com/2020/09/11/in-defense-of-kantai-kessen-really/
The ferocity of Japan's initial campaigns stood in stark contrast to a decisive battle doctrine. Kantai Kessen was and sometimes still referred by historians as a "wait and react" approach, channeling the thought processes of Combined Fleet Commander Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto: On January 7, 1941, Yamamoto committed his ideas to paper in his blandly titled memorandum Gumbi ni kansuru

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Despite this, the Kantai Kessen remained essentially unchanged until Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto was appointed as C-in-C of the Combined Fleet (the IJN's main striking force) in August 1939. Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (1884-1943), the military mastermind who saw a surprise attack to cripple the US Pacific Fleet at the outbreak of war as Japan's

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Kantai_Kessen
The Decisive Battle Doctrine was a naval strategy adopted by the Imperial Japanese Navy prior to the Second World War. The theory was derived from the writings of American naval historian Alfred Thayer Mahan. In the Decisive Battle Doctrine the Japanese navy would win a war by fighting and winning a single, decisive naval action. The idea gained broad acceptance following the Russo-Japanese

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/day-japan-lost-airforce-hell-just-like-old-time-turkey-shoot_home.html
Koga relied on the doctrine established in the Russo-Japanese War, called the Kantai Kessen. The Kantai Kessen or the "decisive battle" was intended to even the odds against the technologically, numerically and industrially superior enemy. By 1944, all hopes of winning the war had nearly vanished.

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Japanese Kantai Kessen night attacks. by Fatboy Coxy » 20 Aug 2019, 21:24. The night phase is the bit that intrigues me, Wiki mentions it as "Fast heavy cruisers working with destroyer flotillas would attack the US battleships at night, making use of their long-range Type 93 torpedoes to inflict further losses".

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He was also bounded in his thinking by belief in a Kantai Kessen that Japan could not win in light of the balance of forces. Thus Yamamoto fashioned a new tool and plan to even the odds in the decisive battle. That tool was the establishment of the First Air Fleet or Kido Butai, comprising all of Japan's major carriers.

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Japanese strategy for war with the US is addressed in the English language books in the context of the doctrine of Kantai Kessen usually translated as Decisive Battle. This is elaborated as the Japanese Navy waits near its naval bases in the Marshals or Japan, for the US Pacific fleet to advance across the Pacific operational attriting it self.

https://codenames.info/operation/kantai-kessen/
Operation Kantai Kessen. 'Kantai Kessen' was the Japanese naval doctrine for a decisive battle with the US Navy to decide the outcome of the Pacific War (1941/45). The 'Kantai Kessen' (decisive battle doctrine) was thus the counterpart to the US 'Orange' plan. This strategic scheme was based on the assumption that Japan would quickly seize

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As a starter, I being a native speaker, kindly be reminded it would sound very strange when the OP says "Kantai Kessen, the Japanese naval strategy for a Pacific war" ( Excluding the fact that the Wiki was updated by someone ). The reason is, simply, in term of the usage of the word. Kantai Kessen simply denotes the one time battle.

https://www.reddit.com/r/WarCollege/comments/bzy81a/ww2_japanese_submarine_doctrine/
The US and Japan both spent time developing large fleet style boats. The Japanese built ocean going submarines in two main types the Ro and the I. The Ro's were more conventional but the I's were large fleet boats of the type intended for their decisive battle doctrine. The I-400s are famous for being the largest subs before SSBNs in the cold war.

https://www.mhhv.org.au/event/beyond-the-kantai-kessen-japans-fateful-defeat-in-the-southwest-pacific/
Beyond the 'Kantai Kessen' - Japan's Fateful Defeat in the Southwest Pacific. April 6 @ 10:30 am - 11:30 am « Toys, Tales & Tenacity - Exhibition; Game of Dominoes: Australia's Security and the Cold War 1947-1991 » In the 'Kantai Kessen' (decisive naval battle doctrine) the Japanese navy would win a war by fighting and winning

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The Kantai Kessen doctrine was in a way a sound doctrine to win a decisive battle, but not for the command of the sea, which is the one that really wins the war. That was the real weakness of the Kantai Kessen since it relied on: American fleet sails out. Hurt American Fleet. Fight American Fleet.

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/the-day-japan-lost-her-airforce.html
Koga relied on the doctrine established in the Russo-Japanese War, called the Kantai Kessen. The Kantai Kessen or the "decisive battle" was intended to even the odds against the technologically, numerically and industrially superior enemy. By 1944, all hopes of winning the war had nearly vanished.