Tamiya 31320 JAPANESE LIGHT CRUISER NATORI (Japane

Natori was completed Mitsubishi's Nagasaki shipyard on September 15, 1922. Soon after commissioning, Natori was assigned to patrols off the China coast. From 1938, it was based in Taiwan, and helped cover the landings of Japanese troops in southern China.In 1940, a border dispute between Siam and French Indochina erupted into armed conflict. A Japanese-sponsored "Conference for the Cessation of Hostilities" was held at Saigon and preliminary documents for a cease-fire between the governments of General Philippe Petain's Vichy France and the Kingdom of Siam were signed aboard Natori on January 31, 1941. Scale: 1/700 Ages: 12+ Tamiya P/N: 31320