The Japanese Navy was still, as a matter of technicality, extant by the time of Japan’s surrender, but it was not in any sort of fighting condition - and certainly not against the 1945 US Navy, which was a grotesque juggernaut at that point. Only one Japanese capital ship remained floating by the end of the war, and many of the smaller ships were too damaged for combat duty.
I never realized the US managed to destroy the entire Japanese Navy, I’m not sure if that exclude subs.
The Japanese Navy was still, as a matter of technicality, extant by the time of Japan’s surrender, but it was not in any sort of fighting condition - and certainly not against the 1945 US Navy, which was a grotesque juggernaut at that point. Only one Japanese capital ship remained floating by the end of the war, and many of the smaller ships were too damaged for combat duty.