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Imperial Japanese Navy battleships seemed to have an awful lot of height to their superstructure -- likely for better fire control for the guns -- giving rise to the term "pagoda". Here's the battleship Fuso.

Here's another, better quality photo of Fuso from 1933. She was modernized 1937-1941 so would've looked different in WWII. She was sunk by the U.S. Navy in the Battle of Surigao Strait, October 25, 1944.

Fuso was originally commissioned in 1915 and was armed with twelve 14-inch guns in six turrets.