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Huge cost of IJN warships can easily explain huge prewar naval bedgets.
Before the Pacific War average exchange rate of Japanese yen to US dollar was 3,6 yen to 1 dollar.
Rough value of the yen before the Pacific War to 21-century yen is 1 to 800.
Prices of some IJN weapons (in Japanese yen)
"Yamato"-class battleship (completed 1941) = 147 700 000
"Shokaku"-class aircraft carrier (completed 1941) = 101 175 000 (including the cost of the air group)
"Myoko"-class cruiser (completed 1929) = 24 000 000
"Agano"-class cruiser (completed 1943) = 26 400 000
"Oyodo"-class cruiser (completed 1943) = 31 160 000
"Yugumo"-class destroyer (completed 1942) = 10 600 000
"Akizuki"-class destroyer (completed 1943) = 12 090 000
"Simushu"-class kaibokan (escort ship) (completed 1940) = 3 216 528
Ship-based fighter Type 0 (also known as A6M or "Zero") = 180 000
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