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Etajima base (JMSDF Etajima Naval Base) inEtajima city,Hiroshima prefecture is in the Etajima-cho government building and is the base of theJapan Maritime Self-Defense Force. Beside housing the 1st Technical School and the Officer Candidates School, it is home to the localKure Naval District,LCAC training facilities, and Self-Defense Force oil storage. In addition, theSpecial Forces of the Maritime Self Defense Force are based here.
The predecessor of the Etajima base was the branch officer training system of theImperial Japanese Naval Academy. The Naval Academy moved to Etajima fromTsukiji,Tokyo in 1888. The current academy was re-established in 1956.
BeforeWorld War II, theBritannia Royal Naval College andUnited States Naval Academy were called the “worldwide 3[clarification needed] large service academies”.[citation needed]
Many of the facilities of the former Naval Academy are now used by the 1st Technical School and the Officer Candidate School.
The Naval History Museum is a building of reinforced concrete that was constructed in 1936. It holdsartifacts ofHeihachiro Togo,Horatio Nelson,John Paul Jones andIsoroku Yamamoto, as well as a book of naval officers which holds more than 10,000 names. Inside the site is amidget submarine that was used in thePearl Harbor attack; artifacts from theJapanese battleship Yamato and theJapanese battleship Mutsu are on display.
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