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'''Etajima base''' (JMSDF Etajima Naval Base) in [[Etajima]] city, [[Hiroshima prefecture]] is in the Etajima-cho government building and is the base of the [[Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force]]. Beside housing the 1st Technical School and the Officer Candidates School, it is home to the local [[Kure Naval District]], [[Air-cushioned landing craft|LCAC]] training facilities, and Self-Defense Force oil storage. In addition, the [[Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force#Special Forces|Special Forces]] of the Maritime Self Defense Force is here.

==History==

[[File:JMSDF-Officer-Candidate-School-Former-Japanese-Naval-Academy.png|thumb|right|Former building of the [[Imperial Japanese Navy Academy]], now used for the [[JMSDF]] Officer Candidate School]]

The predecessor of the Etajima base was the branch officer training system of the [[Imperial Japanese Naval Academy]]. The Naval Academy moved to Etajima from [[Tsukiji]], [[Tokyo]] in 1888. The current academy was re-established in 1956.

Before [[World War II]], the [[Britannia Royal Naval College]] and [[United States Naval Academy]] were called the “worldwide 3{{clarify|date=May 2016}} large service academies”.{{citation needed|date=May 2016}} 

Many of the facilities of the former Naval Academy are now used by the 1st Technical School and the Officer Candidate School.

== Agency unit arrangement ==
* The Maritime Self Defense Force 1st Technical School
* The Maritime Self Defense Force Officer Candidate School
* The 31st Fleet Air Wing
* The target plane service area
* The Special guard (Maritime Self Defense Force)
* The Etajima police duty casual detachment
* The Kure structure learning/repairing depot
* The Hitonose oil storage branch
* The Kure ammunition storehouse and maintenance depot
* The 1st Technical School [[sick bay]]

== The Naval History Museum ==
[[File:Kyouikusankoukan001.JPG|thumb|Naval history museum]] 
The Naval History Museum is a building of reinforced concrete that was constructed in 1936. It holds [[Artifact (archaeology)|artifacts]] of [[Heihachiro Togo]], [[Horatio Nelson]], [[John Paul Jones]] and [[Isoroku Yamamoto]], as well as a book of naval officers which holds more than 10,000 names. Inside the site is a [[Ko-hyoteki class submarine|midget submarine]] that was used in the [[Pearl Harbor attack]]; artifacts from the [[Japanese battleship Yamato]] and the [[Japanese battleship Mutsu]] are on  display.

==See also==
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*[[Bombing of Kure (July 1945)]]
*[[Imperial Japanese Army]]
*[[Imperial Japanese Navy]]
*[[Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service]]
*[[Kure Naval Arsenal]]
*[[Military history of Japan]]
*[[Japan Coast Guard Academy]]
*[[National Defense Academy of Japan]]

== External links ==
* [https://www.mod.go.jp/msdf/onemss/ Maritime Self Defense Force 1st Technical School]
* [http://www.arch-hiroshima.net/a-map/hiroshima/etajima.html Construction map]
* [http://kure-sensai.homeip.net/Genjou/KenHeiwai/KenHeiwai.htm Present Kure troop port and Kure city]
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