Imperial Nakama Navy

The Imperial Nakama Navy (INN; 大仲間帝国海軍 Dai-Nakama Teikoku Kaigun or 仲間海軍 Nakama Kaigun, "Navy of Empire of Nakama") is the navy of Nakama since ruled by Kurahashi Shogunate in 1855 until today. It is a separate division with Nakama Imperial Armed Force under ministry of defense. It supported by Nakama Navy Air Services for fleet aircraft operation.

Origin of Imperial Nakama Navy started since the 12th century under the rule of Taira Shogunate to protect the merchant coming to the southern land (Nakama). In line with the industrialization and modernization of Kurahashi Shogunate forces, in 19th century under Emperor Wako and Shogun Kurahashi Kazumasa Imperial Nakama Navy official founded accompanying with the invention of modern fleets.

During world war 2, with the fall of Kurahashi Shogunate, Imperial Nakama Navy become closest allies to Imperial Japanese Navy and serve to fought allies during this period. 80% of its original fleet was annihilated and destroyed during the war period. After war, with the formation of modern state of Nakama, Nakama Imperial Navy restored with its remaining fleets adding several ships from the surviving Japanese Navy fleets. Since 1960s, Nakama continue to expand its fleet and continue to modernize. In 2012, Prime minister of Nakama Aki Fukuzawa enacted the major expansion of the navy aiming for naval supremacy for the region. Currently there are total 186,840 personnel serving total 65 commissioned ships. Currently Imperial Nakama Navy is one of the largest naval power in Asia and one of the largest in the world and AIN.

2010s Naval Expansion
In 2012, Nakama Prime Minister Aki Fukuzawa announce to expand the Nakama Imperial Navy Force due to the aging equipment and in order to maintain its Nation naval sovereignty. This decision made with the pressure from his coalition in parliament, mostly from Nakama National Party. By 2020 Nakama should have at least 100 commissioned ships with its modernized equipment. This also adding up the military budget by 10 billions since 2011 spending which is condradictive with his decision in 2009 to cut military spending. By December 2017, total 29 ships commissioned since 2012.

As for 2018, Nakama Prime Minister Hiroshi Takanashi decided to continue the programs despite of its controversies.

Districts and Bases


Total 6 districts units act in concert with the fleet to guard the waters of their jurisdictions and provide shore-based support. Each district is home to a major base and its supporting personel and staff. Furthermore, each district is home to one or two regional escort squadrons, composed of two to three destroyers or destroyer escorts (DE). Each district also has a number of minesweeping ships. Naming of the district correspondent on the headquarter location.

Capital ships of Nakama Navy distributed to several district where 3 notable: INS Shoukaku in Shiragaki, INS Yamazaki in Naruse and INS Zuikaku in Miyauchi. Tamagawa district held INS Akane as the capital ship, Hashirajima held INS Akagi, while Yokoshima has INS Shibasaki and INS Nagao

Below are the naval districts of Nakama:
 * Yokoshima District
 * Naruse District
 * Miyauchi District
 * Shiragaki District
 * Tamagawa District
 * Hashirajima District

Current
Note that this table updated periodically. The latest update correspondent to the fleet as of August 30 2018 *marked ships decommissioned as of August 2018