Japanese Heavy cruiser Furutaka Country: Japan Type: Heavy cruiser Service: 1926 - 1942 Ordered: 1923 Fiscal Year Laid down: 5 December 1922 Launched: 25 February 1925 Commissioned: 31 March 1926 Struck: 20 December 1944 Fate: Sunk 12 October 1942

IJN Furutaka was the lead ship in the two-vessel Furutaka class of heavy cruisers in the Imperial Japanese Navy. Furutaka and her sister ship Kako were the first generation of high speed heavy cruisers in the Japanese navy, intended to counter the US Navy Omaha class and Royal Navy Hawkins class scout cruisers.

Furutaka was commissioned at Mitsubishi shipyards, Nagasaki on 31 March 1926. She was refitted and modernized at Kure Navy Yard on 30 April 1939. Furutaka was engaged in naval operations in early World War II. She was sunk at the Battle of Cape Esperance in 1942.