About the book: 2005 / Japanese light cruisers in the first phase of the war, victorious for the Land of the Rising Sun, at the head of destroyer flotillas supported landings on numerous islands in the southern and southwestern parts ocean. They participated in supplying the garrisons of these islands with the necessary equipment and ammunition, being part of the famous “Tokyo Express”, they acted on allied communications, sometimes in areas remote from Japan such as the Indian Ocean, conducted reconnaissance, etc. In the last year of the war, Japanese light cruisers , like other ships of the Imperial Navy, suffered greatly from a lack of fuel and began to go to sea much less often.