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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. Sengoku period - Wikipedia

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    The Sengoku period, also known as Sengoku Jidai (Japanese: 戦国時代, Hepburn: Sengoku Jidai, lit. ' Warring States period '), is the period in Japanese history in which civil wars and social upheavals took place almost continuously in the 15th and 16th centuries.

  4. Military history of Japan - Wikipedia

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    They dominated Japanese politics for nearly seven hundred years (1185–1868), subverting the power of the Emperor as a figurehead and the Imperial Court in Kyoto. In the Kamakura period, Japan successfully repulsed the Mongol invasions, and this saw a large growth in the size of military forces, with samurai as an elite force and as commanders.

  5. 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 ...

  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. Century of humiliation - Wikipedia

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    The Twenty-One Demands (1915) by Japan, which would have greatly extended Japanese control of China. The Treaty of Versailles (1919) in which German territory in China was handed to Japan and led to the anti-imperialist May Fourth Movement. The Japanese invasion of Manchuria (1931–1932) The Soviet invasion of Xinjiang (January–April 1934)

  8. List of wars by death toll - Wikipedia

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    This list of wars by death toll includes all deaths that are either directly or indirectly caused by war.These numbers include the deaths of military personnel which are the direct results of a battle or other military wartime actions, as well as wartime/war-related deaths of civilians which are often results of war-induced epidemics, famines, genocide, etc. Due to incomplete records, the ...

  9. Surrender of Japan - Wikipedia

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    The surrender of the Empire of Japan in World War II was announced by Emperor Hirohito on 15 August and formally signed on 2 September 1945, ending the war.By the end of July 1945, the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) was incapable of conducting major operations and an Allied invasion of Japan was imminent.