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'''''Zipang''''' is a manga and 26-episode anime built around the premise of a modern [[Kaiju Defense Force|JMSDF]] Aegis destroyer named the ''JDS [[Meaningful Name|Mirai]]'' [[Time Travel|traveling through time]] back to the [[World War II|Battle of Midway]] ... and the crew doing nothing. Fearing a [[Temporal Paradox]], the ship's captain decides stay as isolated as possible, while trying to figure out a way back home. This course of action does not go as planned, due largely to an Imperial Japanese Navy officer the executive officer rescues, who reads the contents of the ship's library, thus learning just about everything that happens to Japan after 1942.
The manga, written by Kaiji Kawaguchi, was serialized in Kodansha's ''Weekly Morning'' magazine from 2000 until 2009 and was collected in 43 volumes. A 26-episode anime adaptation was aired in 2004 which adapts the first 70 chapters of the manga, and it was licensed by Geneon for distribution in North America (one of the final titles that Geneon completely released in North America in the one-disc-per-box format).
Compare and contrast ''Zipang''{{'}}s events with the actions of the crew of the ''USS Nimitz'' in the 1980 movie ''[[The Final Countdown]]'', where that ship was sent to Pearl Harbor ({{spoiler|and rescued a senator from the time period, too}}).
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* [[Meaningful Name]] - The name of the ship (''Mirai'') means "future" in Japanese.
* [[My Country, Right or Wrong]] - There are quite a few sympathetic Imperial Japanese characters, including those in high positions of power, who vehemently disagree with the Militarist direction of their country. But nonetheless try to find ways to protect their homeland and find a more amiable end to the war.
* [[Number Two]]: Yōsuke Kadomatsu, the protagonist of ''Zipang'', was the Executive Officer of the JDS ''Mirai''. The ship's captain, Saburō Umezu, was essentially a supporting character.
* [[Officer and a Gentleman]] - the IJN officer they rescue from a crashed seaplane fits this trope to a T.
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* [[Shown Their Work]] - For the most part, the show does a remarkably accurate job of portraying various aircraft and ships that appear throughout the series. The two major exceptions include {{spoiler|using a laser-guided Harpoon missile to attack an American base (the Harpoon is not laser-guided nor designed to attack land targets, at least not the versions the JMSDF would have), and using a Tomahawk missile to sink an aircraft carrier (an anti-ship variant of the Tomahawk was made, but was only ever used by the U.S. Navy and retired before the manga was even published.) Note that no JMSDF warship is armed with Tomahawk missiles on the basis that it is a purely offensive weapon, and equipping it would violate Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution, which would presumably preclude being armed with any land-attack-capable Harpoons.}}
** {{spoiler|Then again, right at the start of the manga, the ship is being sent on an offensive joint mission despite protests, so loading up on some offensive weaponry might be understandable}}
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