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  2. List of wars involving Japan - Wikipedia

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    Occupation of Taiwan by Japan; Battle of Ganghwa (1875) Japan: Korea: Victory. Severe damage inflicted on Korean defenses; 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 ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. Japan during World War II - Wikipedia

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    Timeline; Japan participated in World War II from 1939 to 1945 as a member of the Axis. ... The Second Sino-Japanese War was the largest Asian war in the 20th century ...

  5. Military history of Japan - Wikipedia

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    The Second Sino-Japanese War became part of the global conflict of World War II. Japanese forces initially experienced great success against Allied forces in the Pacific and Southeast Asia, capturing Thailand, Hong Kong, Malaya, Singapore, the Dutch East Indies, the Philippines, and many Pacific Islands.

  6. Pacific War - Wikipedia

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    It was geographically the largest theater of the war, including the Pacific Ocean theater, the South West Pacific theater, the Second Sino-Japanese War, and the Soviet–Japanese War in the last few months of the war. The Second Sino-Japanese War between the Empire of Japan and the Republic of China had been in progress since 7 July 1937, with ...

  7. 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)

  8. Occupation of Japan - Wikipedia

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    The occupation of Japan can be usefully divided into three phases: the initial effort to punish and reform Japan; the so-called "Reverse Course" in which the focus shifted to suppressing dissent and reviving the Japanese economy to support the US in the Cold War as a country of the Western Bloc; and the final establishment of a formal peace ...

  9. Timeline of the surrender of Axis forces at the end of World ...

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    Japan Air force personnel in central Bukidnon: 4,000 [4] Unknown August 23 August 23 Japan All forces on Shumshu: 8,244 Tsutsumi Fusaki August 23 August 23 Japan All forces on Sakhalin: 394,551 [4] Lieutenant General Kiichiro Higuchi: August 25 August 25 Japan Personnel in the Infanta area of Southern Luzon c, 1,500 [4] August 30 August 30 Japan