sentences:  However, having four large battleships (two each of the and es) and four s on order put an enormous financial strain on Japan, which was spending about a third of its national budget on the Navy.Despite this, the IJN gained approval of the "eight-eight-eight" plan in 1920 after American President Woodrow Wilson announced plans in 1919 to re-initiate the 1916 plan for ten additional battleships and six battlecruisers.The Japanese response was to plan the construction of eight additional fast battleships in the "Kii" and the Number 13 classes.