I find this decline in actual veritable history…even if popularized to be irritating…especially considering what i remembered of it earlier.
I wouldn’t have felt as annoyed if they changed the name of the channel to something like the Aliens, supernatural, and conspiracy theory channel or in short, the National Enquirer channel. 
That’s not to say I don’t like aliens as I do enjoy sci-fi movies. Just feel it’s wrong that they are doing so under the “History Channel” name considering it used to air well…actual history programs…albeit popularized.
The Kongo was the last Japanese battleship built by foreign shipbuilders. Every IJN ship afterwards were built domestically.
The British were Japan’s main supplier of Naval hardware and training in their first few decades. Not too surprising considering the IJN made it a point to organize/model themselves after the British Royal Navy and the Anglo-Japanese Alliance from 1902-1920.
Towards the end of that alliance, the British sent a mission to help the IJN establish their Naval Air Service which would eventually play a key role in Pearl Harbor and the rapid defeat of the British armed forces in East/SE Asia a few decades later.
One of the key officers involved in that mission Lord William Forbes-Sempill was later caught as a spy working on behalf of the Japanese. However, due to his aristocratic status, the authorities felt it was better to discreetly force him to retire from public office and keep his treasonous activities secret until records pertaining to his spying activities were released to the public in the early '00s