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Hosho, a 7470-ton aircraft carrier built at Tsurumi, Japan, was completed in December 1922, the first of her type to enter service in the Japanese Navy. She was originally completed with an "island" on her starboard side, but this was removed in 1923. During much of the 1920s Hosho was Japan's only "flat-top" and, like her U.S. Navy contemporary, USS Langley (CV-1), was actively employed developing carrier operational techniques and tactical doctrine.
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The Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier Hosho was commissioned in 1922.

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Hosho (Japanese: "flying phoenix") was the world's first commissioned ship that was designed and built as an aircraft carrier, and the first aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN). Commissioned in 1922, the ship was used for testing carrier aircraft operations equipment, techniques, such as take-offs and landings, and carrier aircraft operational methods and tactics.
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