America Maru (亜米利加丸, Amerika-Maru) was the second of three high speed passenger liners built for the (Tōyō Kisen). Converted into an armed merchantman during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905, she played a crucial role in the Battle of Tsushima. Although used as a hospital ship during the early part of World War II, she had been chartered by the IJN as a transport in 1943, and was sunk by the United States Navy in 1944 with great loss of civilian lives.