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Andrieu D'Albas, Death of a Navy : Japanese Naval Action in World War II, Devin-Adair Pub, (ISBN0-8159-5302-X)
(en) David Evans, Kaigun : strategy, tactics, and technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1887-1941, Annapolis (Md.), US Naval Institute Press, , 661 p. (ISBN0-87021-192-7)
Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922-1946, Grenwitch, Conway Maritime Press, , 456 p. (ISBN0-85177-146-7)
Stephen Howarth, The Fighting Ships of the Rising Sun : The Drama of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1895–1945, Atheneum, , 398 p. (ISBN0-689-11402-8)
Hansgeorg Jentsura, Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1869–1945, US Naval Institute Press, , 284 p. (ISBN0-87021-893-X)
Watts, A. J. Japanese Warships of World War II, Ian Allen, London, 1967.
M. J. Whitley, Destroyers of World War 2, Cassell Publishing, , 320 p. (ISBN1-85409-521-8)