Three destroyers of the Imperial Japanese Navy have been named :
, lead ship of the s of the Imperial Japanese Navy commissioned in 1903 and sunk in May 1904 during the Russo-Japanese War , an Imperial Russian Navy captured by the Japanese in August 1904 during the Russo-Japanese War which subsequently served in the Imperial Japanese Navy as Akatsuki from 1904 to 1905 and as Yamabiko (also transliterated as Yamahiko) from 1905 to 1917 , a or lead ship of the s of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II
See also Akatsuki (disambiguation)
, a launched in 2020 for the Japan Coast Guard