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The military history of Japan covers a vast time-period of over three millennia - from the Jōmon (c. 1000 BC) to the present day. After a long period of clan warfare until the 12th century, there followed feudal wars that culminated in military governments known as the Shogunate.
Kyoroku War (1531) ja:享禄の錯乱; Battle of Daimotsu (1531) ja:大物崩れ; Tenbun War (1532–1535) ja:天文の錯乱. Siege of Iimoriyama (1532) ja:飯盛山城の戦い; Siege of Sakai (1532) Siege of Yamashina Honganji (1532) ja:山科本願寺の戦い; Battle of Idano (1535) Battle of Un no Kuchi (1536) Battle of Sanbuichigahara (1536)
Russo-Japanese War: Japan launched a surprise torpedo attack on the Imperial Russian Navy at Port Arthur. 1905: 5 September: Russo-Japanese War: Japan became the first modern Asian nation to win a war against an Eastern European nation (Russia). The Treaty of Portsmouth was signed, ceding some Russian property and territory to Japan and ending ...
This is a list of wars involving Japan recorded in history. List. This page lists battles between Japanese central or local forces and foreign forces, as well as ...
Warring-States Japan Battle Dataset – 2,889 battles occurring within Japan during the Sengoku period; Sengoku Period – World History Encyclopedia; Samurai Archives Japanese History page (In Japanese) Sengoku Expo: Japanese Design, Culture in the Age of Civil Wars held in Gifu Prefecture, 2000–2001 (In Japanese) List of the Sengoku Daimyos
Japan's stated war aim was to establish the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, a vast pan-Asian union under Japanese domination. [226] Hirohito's role in Japan's foreign wars remains a subject of controversy, with various historians portraying him as either a powerless figurehead or an enabler and supporter of Japanese militarism. [227]
The Kamakura period (鎌倉時代, Kamakura jidai, 1185–1333) is a period of Japanese history that marks the governance by the Kamakura shogunate, officially established in 1192 in Kamakura by the first shōgun Minamoto no Yoritomo after the conclusion of the Genpei War, which saw the struggle between the Taira and Minamoto clans.
The Battle of Sekigahara was the largest battle of Japanese feudal history and is often regarded as the most important. Mitsunari's defeat in the battle of Sekigahara is generally considered to be the beginning point of the Tokugawa shogunate , which ruled Japan for another two and a half centuries until 1868.