A type of Japanese cruiser class during World War II. They were modified from the Myoko Class and has an almost battleship-like, large bridge structure. Four Takao class of Japanese heavy cruisers launched between May 1930 and April 1931 named Takao, Maya, Atago and Chokai. Their main gun armament are 10 x 8" guns and also armed with torpedo battery of 16 x 24". Atago was sunk on 23rd October 1944 by sub USS Darter, Maya was sunk on 23rd October 1944 by sub USS Dace and Chokai was sunk on 25th October 1944 by combined attack of aircraft and destroyers. They saw much combat in the Pacific War between 1941 and 1945.
Japanese cruiser Takao - A name for a Japanese Takao class cruiser involved in the Battle of Leyte Gulf. She suffered irreparable damage after being attacked by British mini sub XE3 in the Straits of Johor. The attack resulted in the award of the Victoria Cross. [1] (http://web.ukonline.co.uk/chalcraft/sm/XE3.html) She was finally towed to the Straits of Malacca to be used as a target ship for H.M.S. Newfoundland.
The heavy cruiserTakao was one of the mammoth Japanese "treaty cruisers" (or "A" class cruisers) built theoretically to the limits of the Washington Naval Treaty--10,000 tons but modified during construction to reflect the London Naval Treaty of 1930 and eventually displacing nearly 15,000 tons.
Takao itself was primarily support for the fast carrier and amphibious assault units that expanded Japanese territory before May 1942; afterwards, she and her three sisters (Chokai, Maya, and Atago) were primarily retained as carrier escorts or as a raiding group.
Takao was in fact close in many ways to being a capital ship; although she only carried a cruiser's guns, the torpedo tubes, displacement, and speed were closer to being worthy of a battlecruiser.
Takao Doi (土井隆雄 Doi Takao, born September 18, 1954) is a Japanese astronaut and a veteran of one NASA space shuttle mission.
Doi was selected by NASA as an astronaut candidate in 1985 and flew as a mission specialist aboard STS-87 in 1997, during which he became the first Japanese astronaut to conduct a spacewalk.
Takao Doi is currently the only member assigned yet to the STS-123 crew that will deliver the first module of the Japanese laboratory, Kibō, to the International Space Station.
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