I have read stuff that near the end of the War our subs were finding it hard to locate any targets above small fishing trawlers........... Map showing Japanese War Ships Lost During World War ll By the end of the war, however, the Imperial Japanese Navy lost over 600 warships. This came at a cost of 300,386 sailors. That’s almost as many soldiers as the total fatalities the United States suffered during the entire war, and here we’re just talking about the Japanese Navy.