Aside from the usual changes arising from experience, serious design faults also came to light and naval treaties imposed restrictions.
Tosa was the tenth and final Japanese capital ship sunk or scrapped to comply with the naval treaty's stipulations.
The instability of the Chidoris arose from Japanese efforts to circumvent the various naval treaties.
The last naval treaty had a clause that permitted a change to 16-inch guns if another signatory did not conform to it by 1 January 1937.
We can learn from the 1920's, when the major powers, using elaborate naval treaties, sought in vain to stabilize the balance in strategic arms.
The naval treaty was concluded on February 6, 1922.
The initial construction was extremely light in order to comply with the naval treaties and had to be remedied.
The naval treaty had a profound effect on the Japanese.
On 19 April (Julian calendar) the Dutch delegation signed a naval treaty with England.
However, after Japan exited the League of Nations it refused to renew the naval treaty.