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  2. List of wars involving Japan - Wikipedia

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    Southwestern War (1877) Japan: Shizoku clans from Satsuma Domain: Imperial victory. Shizoku rebellions were suppressed. The conscription system was established in Japan. First Sino-Japanese War (1894–1895) Japan China: Victory. Korea removed from Chinese suzerainty; Treaty of Shimonoseki; Japanese invasion of Taiwan (1895) Japan: Formosa: Victory

  3. Fu-Go balloon bomb - Wikipedia

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    In subsequent weeks, its protagonists fought monster vines which sprang from seeds the balloon was carrying, created by an evil Japanese horticulturalist. A few weeks later, the comic strip Smilin' Jack by Zack Mosley depicted a plane crashing into a Japanese balloon, which exploded and started a fire upon falling to the ground. [42]

  4. Fires in Edo - Wikipedia

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    For fire accidents occurring in temples and shrines, out of leniency the shogunate only penalized the firestarters with seven days of enryo (遠慮), or light house arrest, in which discrete night excursions were tolerated. Even a fire that coincided with the shogun's visit or turned great would only add another three days to the punishment.

  5. Glossary of Japanese history - Wikipedia

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    Genkō War (元弘の乱, Genkō no Ran) – a civil war which marked the fall of the Kamakura shogunate and end of the power of the Hōjō clan; Genpei War (源平合戦 Genpei Kassen) (1180–1185) – a conflict between the Taira and Minamoto clans and in late-Heian period Japan that resulted with the defeat of the Taira.

  6. List of Japanese battles - Wikipedia

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    Zenkunen War (1051–1062) Battle of Onikiribe (1051) Battle of Kinomi (1057) Siege of Komatsu (1062) Siege of Koromogawa (1062) Siege of Kuriyagawa (1062) Enkyū Battle of Ezo (1070) ja:延久蝦夷合戦; Gosannen War (1083–1087) Siege of Kanezawa (1087) Minamoto no Yoshichika Rebellion (1107–1108) ja:源義親の乱; Hōgen Rebellion (1156)

  7. Timeline of Japanese history - Wikipedia

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    First Sino-Japanese War starts. 1895: 17 April: The First Sino-Japanese War is won by the Japanese, resulting in the Treaty of Shimonoseki. It was the first major conflict between Japan and an overseas military power in modern times. For the first time, regional dominance in East Asia shifted from China to Japan. Korea became a vassal state of ...

  8. Pacific War - Wikipedia

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    Japanese officials integrated what they called the Japan–China Incident (日支事変, Nisshi Jihen) into the Greater East Asia War. During the Occupation of Japan (1945–1952), these terms were prohibited in official documents (although their informal usage continued).

  9. Fūrinkazan - Wikipedia

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    Fūrinkazan (Japanese: 風林火山, "Wind, Forest, Fire, Mountain") is a popularized version of the battle standard used by the Sengoku period daimyō Takeda Shingen. The banner quoted four phrases from Sun Tzu's The Art of War: "as swift as wind, as gentle as forest, as fierce as fire, as unshakable as mountain."