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RENSHUU KANTAI HOKUBEI JUNKOUKI [printed in Japanese]. [RECORD OF THE TRAINING SQUADRON CRUISE IN NORTH AMERICA]. A very rare collection of reports made by Imperial Japanese Navy medical officers in training during a training cruise to North America on board the armored cruiser Iwate in 1929. In accordance with Japan's 1896 Naval Expansion Plan, the Iwate was constructed in Britain between 1898 and 1901 as the second of two Izumo-class armored cruisers. The Iwate saw considerable action almost immediately after its completion, participating heavily in naval engagements during the Russo-Japanese War. After the war, Iwate was reassigned to training duty, and the ship ran nearly twenty international training cruises for Imperial Japanese Navy recruits and officers between 1916 and 1939. She returned to combat service in World War II, where she was sunk by American and British forces during the aerial attack on the Japanese naval base at Kure in 1945.This book details the observations made on of one of Iwate's many global cruises, undertaken in 1929. The tour took the young officers and cadets first to Hawaii before continuing to Victoria, Seattle, Tacoma, Vancouver, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Panama, Cuba, Baltimore, New York, D.C., and Mexico. Returning from North America, the crew visited Hawaii again and a number of Micronesian islands. The articles that make up this account, originally published in monthly installments during and after the tour, were written by the medical

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