Maritime dreams, Meiji realities, 1868-1878
Parochialism and empire: Satsuma, the South Seas, and naval expansion, 1878-1889
Political baptism by fire: the Navy and the early Diet Sessions, 1890-1894
The rich rewards and rivalry of war, 1894-1904
War, pageantry, and propaganda in the service of naval expansion, 1905-1910
Coercion, pragmatism, and interservice rivalry: elite-level politics and naval expansion, 1910-1913
The rise and fall of Navy political fortunes, 1913-1914
Opportunism, expansion, and limitation: the Imperial Navy and Japan's Great War, 1914-1922.