Board Thread:Event Community Discussion/@comment-28069733-20170514083426/@comment-1637496-20170514151806

"It also used DE for other kaibokan ships: http://archive.hnsa.org/doc/id/oni222j-japan-navy/pg115.htm These were wartime intelligence reports to begin with, so they relied on incomplete information and they were made for people who were concerned with combat, not terminology."

I guess they forget to check out the postwar report, also that one is the kaibokan which they even misidentified by name and it's curiously the single exception in the ONI-222 book.

"Not according to the site you linked to earlier, http://www.combinedfleet.com/Kaibokan.htm Provide some evidence for your claim."

Sigh, this is from Kaigun by Evans&Peattie:

"The marginal attention given by the navy to protection of sea transport was reflected in the quantity of warship construction devoted to it. Just before the London Treaty, the navy briefly considered building a sizable force of specialized craft for commerce protection, but budgetary considerations had aborted the plan. The meager result of this brief interest in escort ships was the building of four kaibokan (coastal defense vessels) that had originally been designed for fishery protection and security tasks in Japan’s Kurile Islands"