Japanese Merchant Ships (Maru)
Sinking date shown for wartime losses
Aikoku Maru sunk February 16, 1944
Aiyo Maru sunk March 3, 1943
Akagi Maru sunk February 16, 1944
Akibaasan Maru sunk January 31, 1944
Amagisan Maru sunk February 17, 1944
Amakasu Maru No. 1 sunk December 24, 1942
Arisan Maru sunk October 24, 1944 *
Asakaze Maru sunk December 3, 1943
Ayutosen Maru (The Gona Wreck) sunk July 22, 1942
Azumasan Maru (Deep Ruinin Wreck) October 15-16, 1942
Bordeaux Maru sunk February 1, 1942
Borneo Maru sunk ?, 1942
Choko Maru sunk December 4, 1943
Dorish Maru
Eiko Maru No. 2 sunk January
29, 1944
Fujikawa Maru sunk February 17, 1944
Fujisan Maru sunk February 17, 1944
Goryu Maru Grounded late 1943
Gosei Maru sunk February 17, 1944 *
Gyoraitei No.10 sunk February 16, 1944
Hakkai Maru sunk January 17, 1944
Hakushun Maru sunk February 17, 1944 *
Hanakawa Maru sunk February 17, 1944
Heian Maru sunk February 17, 1944 *
Hikawa Maru displayed at Yokohama *
Hinko Maru sunk circa June 1944 *
Hino Maru No.2 sunk April 30, 1944
Hirokawa Maru (Bonegi 1) Beached November 15, 1942
Hitachi Maru sunk February 14, 1943
Hoki Maru sunk February 16-17, 1944
Hokuan Maru sunk February 14, 1944
Hokurei Maru Damaged October 6, 1944 and beached
Hokuyo Maru sunk February 17, 1944 *
Houn Maru sunk May 19, 1943
Hoyo Maru sunk late April 1944
Ikuta Maru sunk January 12, 1944
India Maru sunk April 15, 1943
Italy Maru sunk November 2, 1943
Kamikawa Maru sunk May 29, 1943
Kano Maru Grounded & sunk September 15, 1942
Kanshin Maru sunk January 11, 1944
Kashi Maru sunk July 2, 1943
Katsuragisan Maru sunk ? *
Keifuku Maru sunk January 5, 1943 by B-17 bombing
Kembu Maru sunk December 4, 1943
Kensho Maru sunk ? *
Kenyo Maru sunk January 14, 1944 by USS Guardfish (SS-217)
Kikukawa Maru sunk October
7, 1943
Kirikawa Maru sunk February 27, 1943 *
Kinkansan Maru (Takubar Wreck) sunk ? *
Kinryu Maru sunk August 25, 1942 Battle of the Eastern Solomons
Kinugasa Maru sunk October 7, 1944 *
Kinugawa Maru (Bonegi 2) sunk November 15, 1942
Kisaragi Maru (Kisargel Maru) partially sunk into Simpson Harbor, salvaged postwar, ultimate fate unknown
Kiyosumi Maru sunk February 16, 1944
Kogyo Maru sunk * ?
Kokai Maru sunk February 21, 1944
Komaki Maru (Wreck Wharf, No ken pek pek maru) April 17, 1942
Kotohira Maru sunk April 15, 1944
Kowa Maru sunk February 21, 1944
Kozui Maru sunk 1943 *
Kotoku Maru (Kotoko Maru) sunk August 8, 1942
Kunikawa Maru sunk May 21, 1945
Kyokusei Maru sunk March 2, 1943
Kyokuzan Maru sunk * ?
Kyusyu Maru (Ruinin Wreck) October 15, 1942
Lisbon Maru damaged October 1, 1942 by torpedoe fired by and USS Grouper SS-214 and sunk October 2, 1942
Manko Maru sunk November 2, 1943 *
Matsutani Maru sunk February 17, 1944
Minsei Maru sunk April 29-30, 1944
Momokawa Maru sunk February 16, 1944
Montevideo Maru sunk July 1, 1942
Myoko Maru (Malahang Wreck) sunk January 8, 1942
Nagano Maru sunk *
Nagato Maru sunk September 2, 1943
Nanyei Maru damaged late 1941 towed Dili Harbor sunk
Nippo Maru sunk *
Nissan Maru sunk June 19, 1942 *
Nissan Maru No. 2 sunk August 11, 1945
Nojima Maru (Nozama Maru) sunk September 16, 1942 / April 20, 1943
Oikawa Maru sunk March 3, 1943
Okikawa Maru sunk *
Olympia Maru sunk *
Oryoku Maru sunk *
Rakyo Maru sunk September 12, 1944
Reiyo Maru sunk February 16, 1944
Rio De Janeiro Maru sunk February 16, 1944
Sagami Maru sunk November 3, 1943
Sagara Maru abandoned September 1, 1943
Saidu Maru sunk ?
San Francisco Maru sunk February 18, 1944
Sankisan Maru sunk February 18, 1944
Sanko Maru sunk February 16, 1944 *
Sanuki Maru sunk January 28, 1945 *
Sanyo Maru sunk May 26, 1944
Sapporo Maru sunk May 29, 1944
Sasako Maru (Sasago Maru) sunk October 15, 1942
Seiko Maru sunk July 31, 1943
Shinkoko Maru sunk June 5, 1943
Shinkoku Maru sunk *
Shinsho Maru sunk July 9, 1942
Shin Yubari Maru sunk February 23, 1944 off Saipan by USS Sunfish
Shoei Maru (O-Buoy Wreck) sunk December 19, 1943
Shohan Maru (Chinsen Maru) sunk *
Shonan Maru No. 6 sunk January 30, 1944
Shotan Maru sunk February
18, 1944
Shouin Maru sunk *
Sydney Maru (Shishi Maru) sunk April 14, 1943
Taiho Maru sunk *
Taijun Maru sunk April 11, 1942
Taikichi Maru sunk *
Taisei Maru sunk September 27, 1943
Taiyō Maru sunk May 8, 1942
Takasaki Maru sunk December 25, 1943
Tamahoko Maru sunk June 29, 1944 *
Tateyama Maru sunk December 4, 1943
Tenyo Maru sunk March 10, 1942
Toa Maru No. 2 sunk January 31, 1943
Tokai Maru sunk August 27, 1943
Tonan Maru No. 2 sunk August 22, 1944 sunk
by USS Pintado (SS-387).
Tonan Maru No.3 sunk February 16, 1944 *
Toreshima Maru sunk December 1943 *
Ume Maru sunk *
Unkai Maru No.6 sunk *
Unidentified Maru (Small Victoira Bay Wreck) sunk *
Yamamoto Maru sunk April 18, 1943
Yamaura Maru sunk November 15, 1942
Yamazuki Maru sunk November 15,
1942
Yawata Maru (Unyō) sunk September 17, 1944
Yokohama Maru sunk March 10, 1942
Yoshino Maru sunk February 13, 1944
Yoshinogawa Maru sunk January 9,
1943
Yubari Maru sunk March 27, 1942 into Koepang Harbor by Dutch air raid
Yubae Maru sunk *
Unidentified Shipwrecks
Unknown Japanese shipwreck off Kwajalein (G-Buoy Wreck)
Unidentified Japanese shipwreck (George's Wreck)
Unidentified Japanese shipwreck at Truk (Gun High Wreck)
Unknown Japanese shipwreck off Kavieng
Unidentified Japanese shipwreck off Gasmata
Japaneseluggar off Ranongga Island
Large Japanese shipwreck near Kieta
Small Japanese shipwreck near Kieta
Unidentified shipwreck off Shell Island (Phantom Maru) sunk January 29 and February 1, 1944
Schooner shipwreck off Shell Island sunk on January
31, 1944
Unknown shipwreck off Bigel Island sunk January 31, 1944
Unknown shipwreck in Coron Bay possibly Taiei Maru
Unknown shipwreck off Eller Island likely Kikyo Maru
Unknown shipwreck off Eller Island likely Kikyo Maru
Unknown shipwreck off Eller Island likely Kikyo Maru
Unknown Japanese shipwreck in Buka Passage (Stern out of water shipwreck) sunk Buka Passage
Unknown Japanese shipwreck Buka Passage (On its side shipwreck) sunk Buka Passage
Unknown Japanese shipwreck in Buka Passage (Propeller Shipwreck) sunk Buka Passage
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