Earhart captured by the Japanese?

[ucbalumnus]

@cobrat

along with the fact the very nature of their service allowed their Navy counterparts much more contact with foreign influences/cultures…especially the British which the IJN was directly modeled on and which received the benefit of much technical assistance/training until the early 1920’s.

The IJN actually purchased a battlecruiser designed by a British naval engineer and built in a UK yard (Kongo, commissioned in 1913) along with technical information so that they could build three more sister ships.