four battlecruisers and a single battleship of the Fusōclass were ultimately approved by the Diet. Three more Fusō-class ships (Yamashiro, Ise, and Hyūga)
The Yamato-classbattleships (大和型戦艦, Yamato-gata senkan) were two battleships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, Yamato and Musashi, laid down leading up to
The Tosa-classbattleships (土佐型戦艦, Tosa-gata Senkan) were two dreadnoughts ordered as part of the "Eight-Eight" fleet for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN)
construction of one battleship (Fusō) and four armoured cruisers, to be designed by British naval architect George Thurston. In his design of the class, Thurston