Background
Funding for Aki was approved as part of the 1904 Emergency Budget for the Russo-Japanese War, and was the second battleship (after Satsuma) to be designed and built domestically in Japan. Due to priority given to the completion of the cruiser Tsukuba, construction of Aki took ten months longer than planned, but this allowed for various design defects discovered in the construction of Satsuma to be rectified in Aki.
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