When.com Web Search

  1. Ads

    related to: small scale map of japan cities map of japan islands conquered during ww2

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. List of territories acquired by the Empire of Japan - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_territories...

    All ports and major towns in the Primorsky Krai and Siberia regions of Russia east of the city of Chita, from 1918 until gradually withdrawing in 1922. [1] North Sakhalin was occupied by Japan 1920–1925. Japanese occupation of German colonial possessions. Japanese occupation of Mariana Islands, Marshall Islands, Palau Islands, Caroline Islands

  3. Map of Japan (Kanazawa Bunko) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map_of_Japan_(Kanazawa_Bunko)

    Also, the map lacks inter-provincial highways that are typical of Gyōki-type maps. [1] Scholars draw attention to the inclusion of small islands in northern Kyūshū, namely, Shikanoshima (シカノ島) and Takeshima (竹嶋). They were notable battlefields during the Mongol invasions of 1274 and 1281. For this reason, the map is considered to ...

  4. File:Japanese Empire - 1942.svg - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Japanese_Empire...

    Northern part of the Sakhalin island was transferred from Japan to Soviet Russia in 1925, and the borders remained untouched until the end of WWII. Hence this territory should be omitted from the map. 20:13, 31 March 2020: 1,100 × 837 (904 KB) Esmu Igors: Reverted to version as of 01:24, 25 April 2010 (UTC) (unsuccessful edit in the Inkscape)

  5. Japanese colonial empire - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_colonial_empire

    The first overseas territories that Japan acquired were the islands of its surrounding seas. During the early Meiji era, Japan established control over the Nanpō, Ryukyu, and Kuril Islands; it also strengthened control of the naichi. However, this effort was less an initial step toward colonial expansion than it was a reassertion of national ...

  6. Japanese maps - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_maps

    Japan sea map. The earliest known term used for maps in Japan is believed to be kata (形, roughly "form"), which was probably in use until roughly the 8th century.During the Nara period, the term zu (図) came into use, but the term most widely used and associated with maps in pre-modern Japan is ezu (絵図, roughly "picture diagram").

  7. Operation Downfall - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Downfall

    Operation Downfall was the proposed Allied plan for the invasion of the Japanese home islands near the end of World War II.The planned operation was canceled when Japan surrendered following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Soviet declaration of war, and the invasion of Manchuria. [1]

  8. Japanese occupation of Nauru - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_occupation_of_Nauru

    1940 map of Nauru showing the extent of the phosphate mined lands. Mining operations on Nauru began in 1906, at which time it was part of the German colonial empire. The island had some of the world's largest and highest quality deposits of phosphate, a key component in fertiliser, making it a strategically important resource on which agriculture in Australia and New Zealand depended.

  9. Japan during World War II - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_during_World_War_II

    Political map of the Asia-Pacific region, 1939. The decision by Japan to attack the United States remains controversial. Study groups in Japan had predicted ultimate disaster in a war between Japan and the U.S., and the Japanese economy was already straining to keep up with the demands of the War with China.