Editing List of aircraft carriers (section)

===Japan===
'''Active:'''<ref>{{Cite web|last=Lockie|first=Alex|title=Japan unveiled new plans for an F-35 aircraft carrier – and it's a Chinese navy killer|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/japans-new-plan-for-izumo-f-35-carrier-a-tool-against-chinas-navy-2018-12|access-date=2019-12-28|website=Business Insider}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Sutton|first=H. I.|title=Japan To Get First Aircraft Carriers Since World War II|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/hisutton/2019/11/20/japan-to-get-first-aircraft-carriers-since-world-war-two/|access-date=2019-12-27|website=Forbes|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Yoshida|first=Reiji|date=2019-05-23|title=Japan's plan to remodel Izumo-class carriers: Needed upgrade or mere show of force?|language=en-US|work=The Japan Times Online|url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/23/national/izumo-needed-upgrade-mere-show-force/|access-date=2019-12-27|issn=0447-5763}}</ref>
* {{sclass|Izumo|multi-purpose destroyer|4}}
** {{JS|Izumo||2}} – Commissioned in 2015. Announced in December 2018 to be redesignated and converted into a multi-purpose destroyer to carry F-35 aircraft
** {{JS|Kaga||2}} – Commissioned in 2017. Announced in December 2018 to be redesignated and converted into a multi-purpose destroyer to carry F-35 aircraft

'''Retired:'''
* {{Ship|Japanese aircraft carrier|Hōshō||2}} (1921)&nbsp;– used as transport to repatriate Japanese troops postwar and dismantled 1946
* {{Ship|Japanese aircraft carrier|Ryūhō||2}} (1933)&nbsp;– damaged at Kure by U.S. air raid March 1945 and dismantled 1946
* {{Ship|Japanese aircraft carrier|Kaiyō||2}} (1943)&nbsp;– damaged at Kure by U.S. air raid March 1945, grounded in Beppu Bay and dismantled in place in 1946
* {{sclass|Hiyō|aircraft carrier|4}}
** {{Ship|Japanese aircraft carrier|Jun'yō||2}} (1939)&nbsp;– damaged during Battle of Philippine Sea, June 1944. Never repaired; dismantled 1946
* {{sclass|Unryū|aircraft carrier|4}}
** {{Ship|Japanese aircraft carrier|Katsuragi||2}} (1944)&nbsp;– used as transport to repatriate Japanese troops postwar and dismantled 1946

'''Sunk:'''
* {{Ship|Japanese aircraft carrier|Kaga||2}} (1921)&nbsp;– sunk, Battle of Midway, June 1942
* {{sclass|Amagi|aircraft carrier|4}}
** {{Ship|Japanese aircraft carrier|Akagi||2}} (1925)&nbsp;– sunk, Battle of Midway, June 1942
* {{Ship|Japanese aircraft carrier|Ryūjō||2}} (1931)&nbsp;– sunk, Battle of the Eastern Solomons, August 1942
<!-- * {{sclass|Sōryū|aircraft carrier|4}} -->
* {{Ship|Japanese aircraft carrier|Sōryū||2}} (1935)&nbsp;– sunk, Battle of Midway, June 1942
* {{Ship|Japanese aircraft carrier|Hiryū||2}} (1937)&nbsp;– sunk, Battle of Midway, June 1942
* {{sclass|Zuihō|aircraft carrier|4}}
** {{Ship|Japanese aircraft carrier|Shōhō||2}} (1935)&nbsp;– sunk, Battle of the Coral Sea, May 1942
** {{Ship|Japanese aircraft carrier|Zuihō||2}} (1936)&nbsp;– sunk, Battle of Leyte Gulf, October 1944
* {{sclass|Chitose|aircraft carrier|4}}
** {{Ship|Japanese aircraft carrier|Chitose||2}} (1936)&nbsp;– seaplane tender from 1934 to 1942, rebuilt as light carrier and sunk at Battle of Leyte Gulf in October 1944
** {{Ship|Japanese aircraft carrier|Chiyoda||2}} (1937)&nbsp;– sunk at Battle of Leyte Gulf, October 1944
* {{sclass|Shōkaku|aircraft carrier|4}}
** {{Ship|Japanese aircraft carrier|Shōkaku||2}} (1939)&nbsp;– sunk by U.S. submarine {{USS|Cavalla|SS-244}}, Battle of Philippine Sea, June 1944
** {{Ship|Japanese aircraft carrier|Zuikaku||2}} (1939)&nbsp;– sunk, Battle of Leyte Gulf, October 1944
* {{sclass|Hiyō|aircraft carrier|4}}
** {{Ship|Japanese aircraft carrier|Hiyō||2}} (1939)&nbsp;– sunk, Battle of Philippine Sea, June 1944
* {{Ship|Japanese aircraft carrier|Taihō||2}} (1943)&nbsp;– sunk by U.S. submarine {{USS|Albacore|SS-218}}, Battle of Philippine Sea, June 1944
* {{sclass|Taiyō|aircraft carrier|4}}
** {{Ship|Japanese aircraft carrier|Taiyō||2}} (1941)&nbsp;– sunk by U.S. submarine {{USS|Rasher|SS-269|6}}, August 1944
** {{Ship|Japanese aircraft carrier|Un'yō||2}} (1942)&nbsp;– sunk by U.S. submarine {{USS|Barb|SS-220|6}}, September 1944
** {{Ship|Japanese aircraft carrier|Chūyō||2}} (1942)&nbsp;– sunk by U.S. submarine {{USS|Sailfish|SS-192|6}}, December 1943
* {{sclass|Unryū|aircraft carrier|4}}
** {{Ship|Japanese aircraft carrier|Amagi||2}} (1943)&nbsp;– used as anti-aircraft platform and sunk in July 1945
** {{Ship|Japanese aircraft carrier|Unryū||2}} (1943)&nbsp;– sunk by U.S. submarine {{USS|Redfish|SS-395|6}}, December 1944
* {{Ship|Japanese aircraft carrier|Shinano||2}} (1944)&nbsp;– sunk by U.S. submarine {{USS|Archerfish|SS-311|6}}, November 1944
* {{Ship|Japanese aircraft carrier|Shin'yō||2}} (1944)&nbsp;– sunk by U.S. submarine {{USS|Spadefish|SS-411|6}}, November 1944

''Hōshō'', ''Jun'yō'', ''Katsuragi'', and ''Ryūhō'' survived the war. These were scrapped by 1948.

'''Never completed:'''
* {{sclass|Amagi|aircraft carrier|4}}
**''Amagi'' (not completed); damaged beyond economical repair in the [[1923 Great Kantō earthquake|Great Kantō earthquake]] of September 1923, scrapped 1924
* {{sclass|Taihō|aircraft carrier|4}}
** 5x Improved {{Ship|Japanese aircraft carrier|Taihō||2}}, project G-15 (cancelled 1944)
* {{sclass|Unryū|aircraft carrier|4}}
** Hull 5002, 3rd unit of Unryū class (cancelled 1943); materials used for Shinano conversion
** {{Ship|Japanese aircraft carrier|Kasagi||2}}, 5th unit of Unryū class (not completed); dismantled post-war
** Hull 5005, 6th unit of Unryū class (cancelled 1943); materials used for Shinano conversion
** {{Ship|Japanese aircraft carrier|Aso||2}}, 7th unit of Unryū class (not completed); sunk as weapon test target and scrapped postwar
** {{Ship|Japanese aircraft carrier|Ikoma||2}}, 8th unit of Unryū class (not completed); dismantled post-war
** ''Kurama'', 9th unit of Unryū class (cancelled 1944)
* {{Ship|Japanese cruiser|Ibuki|1943|2}} – heavy cruiser conversion (not completed); dismantled post-war