Yamato Period

• Takehaniyasuhiko Rebellion (About 3 century time) :ja:武埴安彦命
• Goguryeo–Yamato War (391-404)
• Kibi Clan Rebellion (463) :ja:吉備氏の乱
  • Prince Hoshikawa Rebellion (479) :ja:星川皇子
• Iwai Rebellion
  Iwai Rebellion
  The was a rebellion against the Yamato court that took place in Tsukushi, Japan in 527 AD. The rebellion was named after its leader, Iwai, who is believed by historians to have been a powerful governor of Tsukushi. The rebellion was quelled by the Yamato court, and played an important part in the...
  
   (527-528) :ja:磐井の乱
• Musashi no Kuni no Miyatsuko Rebellion (534) :ja:武蔵国造の乱
• Battle of Shigisan
  Battle of Shigisan
  The Battle of , , , , , or was a battle fought in 587 between Soga no Umako and Mononobe no Moriya at the riverside of the river in Kawachi Province, Japan near Mount Shigi. The battle practically exterminated the Mononobe clan, the most powerful opponent of Buddhism....
  
   (587) :ja:丁未の乱
• Isshi Incident (645)　
• North expedition of Abe no Hirafu
  Mishihase
  The , also read as Ashihase and Shukushin, were a people of ancient Japan, believed to have lived along the northern portion of the coast of the Sea of Japan...
  
   (658-660) :ja:阿倍比羅夫
• Battle of Baekgang
  Battle of Baekgang
  The Battle of Baekgang, also known as Battle of Baekgang-gu or by the Japanese name Battle of Hakusukinoe , was a battle between Baekje restoration forces and their ally, Yamato Japan, against the allied forces of Silla and the Tang Dynasty of ancient China...
  
   (663)
• Jinshin War
  Jinshin War
  The was a succession dispute in Japan which broke out in 672 following the death of Emperor Tenji. The name refers to the jinshin or ninth year of the sixty-year Jikkan Jūnishi calendrical cycle, corresponding to the Western year 673....
  
   (672)　

Nara Period

• Hayato Rebellion (720-721) :ja:隼人の反乱
• Fujiwara-no Hirotsugu Rebellion (740) :ja:藤原広嗣の乱
• Fujiwara-no Nakamaro Rebellion (764) :ja:藤原仲麻呂の乱
• Thirty-Eight Year War (774-811)
  • Hōki Rebellion (780-781?) :ja:宝亀の乱
  • Battle of Subuse (788) :ja:巣伏の戦い

Heian Period

• Thirty-Eight Year War (774-811)
  • Conquest by Sakanoue no Tamuramaro
    Sakanoue no Tamuramaro
    was a general and shogun of the early Heian Period of Japan. He was the son of Sakanoue no Karitamaro.-Military career:Serving Emperor Kammu, he was appointed shogun and given the task of conquering the Emishi , a people native to the north of Honshū, which he subjugated...
    
     (801)
  • Last Conquest　by Funya no Watamaro (811)
• Gangyō Rebellion (878) :ja:元慶の乱
• Kanbyō Silla pirate invasion (893) :ja:新羅の入寇
• Jōhei-Tengyō Rebellion
  Tengyo no Ran
  The is the name of a brief medieval Japanese conflict, in which Taira no Masakado rebelled against the central government. He was defeated after 59 days, and was beheaded on 25 March 940 CE during the Battle of Kojima....
  
   (936-941) :ja:承平天慶の乱
• Toi invasion
  Toi invasion
  The Toi invasion was the invasion of northern Kyūshū by Jurchen pirates in 1019. Toi meant barbarian in the Korean language at the time....
  
   (1019)
• Taira no Tadatsune Rebellion (1028-1030) :ja:平忠常の乱
• Zenkunen War
  Zenkunen War
  The Zenkunen War , also known by the English translation Early Nine-Years War, was fought from 1051 to 1063, in Japan's Mutsu province, at the far north of the main island of Honshū...
  
   (1051-1062)
  • Battle of Onikiribe (1051)
  • Battle of Kinomi (1057)
  • Siege of Komatsu (1062)
  • Siege of Koromogawa (1062)
  • Siege of Kuriyagawa
    Siege of Kuriyagawa
    The siege of Kuriyagawa the Siege of Kuriyagawa was a certain battle during the Heian period of Japan.This rather minor siege, which was a part of the Zenkunen War, ended with the victory of the Minamoto. Throughout this siege, Abe commander Abe no Sadato ended up being defeated in his stockade...
    
    　(1062)
• Gosannen War
  Gosannen War
  The Gosannen War , also known by the English translation Later Three-Year War, was fought during Japan's Heian period in the province of Mutsu at the far north of Japan's main island of Honshū. Though some scholars date the war to the period of 1086 to 1089, others place it a few years earlier,...
  
   (1083-1087)
  • Siege of Kanezawa (1187)
• Hōgen Rebellion
  Hogen Rebellion
  The was a short civil war fought in order to resolve a dispute about Japanese Imperial succession. The dispute was also about the degree of control exercised by the Fujiwara clan who had become hereditary Imperial regents during the Heian period....
  
   (1156)
• Heiji Rebellion
  Heiji Rebellion
  The was a short civil war fought in order to resolve a dispute about political power. The Heiji no ran encompassed clashes between rival subjects of the cloistered Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan in 1159. It was preceded by the Hōgen Rebellion in 1156...
  
   (1159)

Genpei War

Genpei War

The was a conflict between the Taira and Minamoto clans during the late-Heian period of Japan. It resulted in the fall of the Taira clan and the establishment of the Kamakura shogunate under Minamoto Yoritomo in 1192....

 (1180-1185)

• Battle of Ishibashiyama
  Battle of Ishibashiyama
  The ' was the first in which Minamoto Yoritomo, who was to become shogun less than a decade later, was commander of the Minamoto forces. In this, his first attempt to challenge the Taira, he was assisted by warriors from the Miura clan....
  
   (1180)　
• Battle of Fujigawa
  Battle of Fujigawa
  The was a battle of the Genpei War of the Heian period of Japanese history. It took place in 1180, in what is now Shizuoka Prefecture.Attempting to recover quickly from his exile, and to rebuild his army, Minamoto no Yoritomo sent out messengers to recruit other families...
  
   (1180)
• Battle of Sunomatagawa (1181)
• Battle of Kurikara
  Battle of Kurikara
  The battle of Kurikara, also known as the battle of Tonamiyama , was a crucial battle of Japan's Genpei War; in this battle the tide of the war turned in the favor of the Minamoto clan.-Background:...
  
   (1183)
• Siege of Hōjūjidono
  Siege of Hojujidono
  The 1184 siege of the Hōjūjidono was part of Japan's Genpei War, and was a key element of the conflict between Minamoto no Yoshinaka and his cousins Yoritomo and Yoshitsune for control of the Minamoto clan....
  
   (1184)　
• Battle of Uji
  Battle of Uji (1184)
  Minamoto no Yoshinaka tried to wrest power from his cousins Yoritomo and Yoshitsune, seeking to take command of the Clan. To that end, he sacked Kyoto, burning the Hōjūji Palace, kidnapping Emperor Go-Shirakawa and having himself named shogun...
  
   (1184)
• Battle of Awazu
  Battle of Awazu
  Minamoto no Yoshinaka made his final stand at Awazu, after fleeing from his cousins' armies, which confronted him after he attacked Kyoto, burning the Hōjūjiden, and kidnapping Emperor Go-Shirakawa...
  
   (1184)
• Battle of Ichi-no-Tani
  Battle of Ichi-no-Tani
  ' was a Taira fortress at Suma, to the west of present-day Kobe. It sat on a very narrow strip of shore, between mountains on the north, and the sea to the south. This made it quite defensible, but also made it difficult to maneuver troops inside the fortress. Minamoto no Yoshitsune split his force...
  
   (1184)
• Battle of Kojima
  Battle of Kojima
  The Batte of Kojima was a battle of the Genpei War of the Heian period of Japanese history, taking place in 1184.Following the fleeing Taira from Ichi-no-Tani, on their way to Yashima, Minamoto no Noriyori engaged and defeated his enemies in battle at Kojima...
  
   (1184)
• Battle of Yashima
  Battle of Yashima
  The naval Battle of Yashima took place on 22 March 1185. Following a long string of defeats, the Taira clan retreated to Yashima, today's Takamatsu, just off the coast of Shikoku...
  
   (1185)
• Battle of Dan-no-ura
  Battle of Dan-no-ura
  The ' was a major sea battle of the Genpei War, occurring at Dan-no-ura, in the Shimonoseki Strait off the southern tip of Honshū. On March 24, 1185, the Genji clan fleet, led by Minamoto no Yoshitsune, defeated the Heike clan fleet, during a half-day engagement.The Taira were outnumbered, but...
  
   (1185)

Kamakura Period

• Ōshū War(1189) :ja:奥州合戦
• Wada Rebellion (1213) :ja:和田合戦
• Miura Rebellion (1247) :ja:宝治合戦
• Jōkyū War
  Jokyu War
  ', also known as the Jōkyū Disturbance or the Jōkyū Rebellion, was fought in Japan between the forces of Retired Emperor Go-Toba and those of the Hōjō clan, regents of the Kamakura shogunate, whom the retired emperor was trying to overthrow....
  
   (1221)
  • Battle of Uji
    Battle of Uji
    Battle of Uji refers to one of three 12th and 13th century battles fought in Japan:*Battle of Uji , First Battle of Uji*Battle of Uji , Second Battle of Uji*Battle of Uji , Third Battle of Uji...
    
     (1221)

Mongol Invasions of Japan

Mongol invasions of Japan

The ' of 1274 and 1281 were major military efforts undertaken by Kublai Khan to conquer the Japanese islands after the submission of Goryeo to vassaldom. Despite their ultimate failure, the invasion attempts are of macrohistorical importance, because they set a limit on Mongol expansion, and rank...

 (1274 & 1281)

• Battle of Bun'ei
  Battle of Bun'ei
  The , also known as the First Battle of Hakata Bay was the first attempt by the Yuan Dynasty founded by the Mongols to invade Japan. After conquering the Tsushima Island and Iki, Kublai Khan's fleet moved on to Japan proper, landing at Hakata Bay, a short distance from Kyūshū's administrative...
  
   (1274)　
• Battle of Kōan
  Battle of Koan
  The ', also known as the Second Battle of Hakata Bay, was the second attempt by the Yuan Dynasty founded by the Mongols to invade Japan...
  
   (1281)

Genkō War

Genko War

The —also known as the —was a civil war in Japan which marked the fall of the Kamakura shogunate and end of the power of the Hōjō clan. The war thus preceded the Nanboku-chō period and the rise of the Ashikaga shogunate...

 (1331-1333)

• Siege of Kasagi
  Siege of Kasagi
  The 1331 siege of Kasagi was among the first battles of the Genkō War, which brought an end to Japan's Kamakura period. Emperor Go-Daigo, who had been plotting against the shogunate and the Hōjō clan regents, had hidden the Japanese imperial regalia in Kasagi-dera, a fortified Buddhist temple, atop...
  
   (1331)
• Siege of Akasaka
  Siege of Akasaka
  The 1331 siege of Akasaka was a battle of the Genkō War, taking place during the final years of Japan's Kamakura period, at Shimo Akasaka-jō near modern-day Osaka....
  
   (1331)
• Siege of Chihaya
  Siege of Chihaya
  The 1333 siege of Chihaya took place during the final year of Japan's Kamakura period. It was one of several battles of the Genkō War, in which Emperor Go-Daigo sought to eliminate the power of the Hōjō clan regents. Chihaya-jō was built atop Mt. Kongō, in Kawachi province, in 1332...
  
   (1333)
• Battle of Bubaigawara
  Battle of Bubaigawara
  The was part of the decisive Kōzuke-Musashi Campaign during the Genkō War in Japan that ultimately ended the Kamakura Shogunate. Fought in present day Fuchū on May 15 and 16, 1333, it pitted the anti-shogunate imperial forces led by Nitta Yoshisada against the forces of the Hōjō...
  
   (1333)　
• Siege of Kamakura
  Siege of Kamakura (1333)
  The 1333 siege of Kamakura was a battle of the Genkō War, and marked the end of the power of the Hōjō clan, which had dominated the regency of the Kamakura shogunate for over a century...
  
   (1333)

Nanboku-chō period (1336-1392)

• Battle of Tatarahama
  Battle of Tatarahama (1336)
  The 1336 battle of Tatarahama was one of many battles constituting the Nanboku-chō Wars in Japan, in which two rival Imperial Courts battled for legitimacy and control of the country...
  
  (1336)
• Battle of Minatogawa
  Battle of Minatogawa
  The Battle of Minatogawa also known as the Battle of Minato River was fought in 1336 between Japanese forces loyal to Emperor Go-Daigo and the Ashikaga clan. The Imperial forces were led by Kusunoki Masashige and Nitta Yoshisada, while the Ashikaga were led by Ashikaga Takauji. The Ashikaga were...
  
   (1336)
• Siege of Kanegasaki (1337)
• Battle of Ishizu (1338) :ja:石津の戦い
• Battle of Shijō Nawate
  Battle of Shijo Nawate
  The 1348 Battle of Shijōnawate was a battle of the Nanboku-chō period of Japanese history, and took place in Yoshinoko, Japan. It was fought between the armies of the Northern and Southern Emperors of Japan. The Southern army, led by Kusunoki Masatsura was attacked at Yoshino, the temporary palace...
  
   (1348)
• Kannō Incident　(1350-1352) :ja:観応の擾乱
  • Battle of Uchidehama
    Battle of Uchidehama
    The took place in 1582, following the Battle of Yamazaki. The forces of Toyotomi Hideyoshi pursued the defeated Akechi clan to Uchidehama and engaged the clan again there. Akechi Mitsuharu led the Akechi, as his cousin, Mitsuhide, died at Yamazaki...
    
     (1351) :ja:打出浜の戦い
• Battle of Chikugogawa (1359) :ja:筑後川の戦い

• Ōei Rebellion (1399) :ja:応永の乱
• Rebellion of Uesugi Zenshū
  Uesugi Zenshu
  , also known as Uesugi Ujinori, was the chief advisor to Ashikaga Mochiuji, an enemy of the Ashikaga shogunate in feudal Japan. When he was rebuked by Mochiuji in 1415, and forced to resign, Zenshū organized a rebellion....
  
   (1416-1417) :ja:上杉禅秀の乱
• Eikyō Rebellion (1438-1439) :ja:永享の乱
• Siege of Yūki (1440) :ja:結城合戦
• Kakitsu Incident (1441) :ja:嘉吉の乱
• Koshamain's Revolt (1456-1457)]] (1457) :ja:コシャマインの戦い

Kyōtoku Incident

Kyotoku Incident

The Kyōtoku Incident was a long series of skirmishes and conflicts fought for control of the Kantō region of Japan in the 15th century. The conflict began in 1454 with the assassination of Uesugi Noritada by Kantō kubō Ashikaga Shigeuji. The Ashikaga, Uesugi, and other clans then leapt to battle,...

(1455-1482)

• Battle of Bubaigawara (1455) :ja:分倍河原の戦い(室町時代)
• Battle of Irako (1459-1477) :ja:五十子の戦い
• Nagao Kageharu Rebellion (1476-1480) :ja:長尾景春の乱
  • Battle of Egota-Numabukurohara (1477) :ja:江古田・沼袋原の戦い

Sengoku

Sengoku period

The or Warring States period in Japanese history was a time of social upheaval, political intrigue, and nearly constant military conflict that lasted roughly from the middle of the 15th century to the beginning of the 17th century. The name "Sengoku" was adopted by Japanese historians in reference...

 and Azuchi-Momoyama period

• Chōkyō Incident (1487-1505)　:ja:長享の乱
  • Battle of Tachigawara (1504) :ja:立河原の戦い
• Battle of Nyoigatake (1509) :ja:如意ケ嶽の戦い
• Battle of Nagamorihara (1510) :ja:長森原の戦い
• Siege of Arai
  Siege of Arai
  The siege of Arai was among the first steps taken by Hōjō Sōun towards becoming one of the most powerful warlords of Japan's Sengoku period. After attacking Kamakura in 1512, Hōjō turned to Arai castle, on a peninsula to the south, which was controlled by Miura Yoshiatsu.Miura Yoshiatsu's son...
  
   (1516)
• Battle of Arita-Nakaide (1517) :ja:有田中井手の戦い

• Ningbo Turmoil
  Ningbo Turmoil
  Ningbo Turmoil , was a historic Japanese brawl event in Ningbo, Ming China. This turmoil happened in the 3rd year of Daiei Era , and represents the rivals between Japanese powers during that period .-References:Japanese:* * Chinese:*...
  
   (1523) :ja:寧波の乱
• Battle of Katsuragawa (1527) :ja:桂川原の戦い

• Battle of Tatenawate (1530) :ja:田手畷の戦い
• 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 Un no Kuchi
  Battle of Un no Kuchi
  The Battle of Un no Kuchi was the first major victory for Takeda Harunobu, aged fifteen at the time. He would later take on the name Takeda Shingen, and grow to become one of Japan's most famous warlords....
  
   (1536)　
• Battle of Sanbuichigahara (1536)
• Hanakura Incident (1536) :ja:花倉の乱
• Siege of Musashi-Matsuyama
  Siege of Musashi-Matsuyama (1537)
  The 1537 siege of Musashi-Matsuyama was the first of several sieges of Matsuyama castle in Japan's Musashi province over the course of the Sengoku period...
  
   (1537)　
• Battle of Kōnodai
  Battle of Konodai (1538)
  The 1538 battle of Kōnodai took place during the Sengoku period of Japanese history, fought by the leader of the Hōjō, Hōjō Ujitsuna, against the combined forces of Satomi Yoshitaka and Ashikaga Yoshiaki . After a long fought battle between the Hōjō and the allied forces, Ujitsuna arose as the...
  
   (1538)
• Siege of Koriyama
  Siege of Koriyama
  took place from 1540 until 1541 in Yoshida, Aki Province, Japan during the Sengoku period. Amako Haruhisa, with 30,000 men, attacked Koriyama Castle, which belonged to Mōri Motonari and was defended by 8,000 men. When Mōri sent an army to relieve the siege, Amako was forced to leave....
  
   (1540-1541)

• Battle of Azukizaka
  Battle of Azukizaka (1542)
  In the first Oda Nobuhide defeated Imagawa Yoshimoto, setting the stage for his son, Oda Nobunaga, to become one of Japan's greatest warlords. Despite the defeat, later in 1548, Imagawa defeated Nobuhide in the second battle of Azukizaka and continued to expand his territory until 1560, when he...
  
   (1542)
• Siege of Toda Castle (1542-1543)
• Utsuro Rebellion (1542-1548) :ja:天文の乱(洞の乱)
• Battle of Kawagoe
  Battle of Kawagoe
  The 1545-1546 ' was part of a failed attempt by the Uesugi clan to regain Kawagoe Castle from the Late Hōjō clan in the sengoku period of Japan...
  
   (1546)
• Battle of Odaihara
  Battle of Odaihara
  The 1546 Battle of Odaihara was one of many steps taken by Takeda Shingen, one of Japan's great warlords of the Sengoku period, in his bid to take over Shinano province. He met the forces of Uesugi Norimasa on the plains of Odaihara, and defeated Uesugi's army while devoting a portion of his own...
  
   (1546)
• Battle of Azukizaka (1548)
• Battle of Uedahara
  Battle of Uedahara
  The was the first defeat suffered by Takeda Shingen, and the first field battle in Japan at which firearms were used.Takeda Shingen met up with his force that had taken Shika castle, and led 7000 men north to face the threat posed by Murakami Yoshikiyo...
  
   (1548)
• Siege of Toishi (1550) :ja:砥石崩れ
• Battle of Kaizu (1552)
• Battles of Kawanakajima
  Battles of Kawanakajima
  The ' were fought in the Sengoku Period of Japan between Takeda Shingen of Kai Province and Uesugi Kenshin of Echigo Province in the plain of Kawanakajima, in the north of Shinano Province. The location is in the southern part of the present-day city of Nagano.The five major battles took place in...
  
   (1553, 1555, 1557, 1561, 1564)
• Battle of Ino
  Battle of Inō
  The Battle of Inō was a battle fought during the Sengoku period of Japan. The battle was fought between two forces of the Oda clan, the head of the clan Oda Nobunaga and his brother Oda Nobuyuki, who with the support of Shibata Katsuie and Hayashi Hidesada, rebelled against Nobunaga...
  
   (1555)
• Battle of Miyajima
  Battle of Miyajima
  The 1555 ' was the only battle to be fought on the sacred island of Miyajima; the entire island is considered to be a Shinto shrine, and no birth or death is allowed on the island. Extensive purification rituals took place after the battle, to cleanse the shrine and the island of the pollution of...
  
   (1555)
• Battle of Nagaragawa
  Battle of Nagaragawa
  The was a battle that took place along the banks of the Nagara River in Mino Province in April 1556. It was a battle between Saitō Dōsan and his son, Saitō Yoshitatsu.-Background:...
  
   (1556)
• Battle of Ukino (1558)
• Siege of Terabe
  Siege of Terabe
  The Siege of Terabe took place in 1558.This was the first battle that Tokugawa Ieyasu was involved in. At the time, he was a vassal of Imagawa Yoshimoto....
  
   (1558)
• Battle of Kōnodai
  Battle of Konodai (1564)
  In the second battle of Kōnodai, fought in 1564, Hōjō Ujiyasu led his men to victory against Satomi Yoshihiro. Interestingly, both Ujiyasu and Yoshihiro were the sons of the commanders at the first battle of Kōnodai, in which Hōjō Ujitsuna defeated the combined forces of Satomi Yoshitaka and...
  
   (1564)
• Siege of Minowa
  Siege of Minowa
  The 1566 siege of Minowa was one of several battles fought by the Takeda clan in their campaigns to seize the lands of the Uesugi clan, during Japan's Sengoku period...
  
   (1566)
• Siege of Hachigata
  Siege of Hachigata (1568)
  The first siege of Hachigata took place in 1568; Takeda Shingen laid siege to the castle, which was controlled by Hōjō Ujikuni, but was unable to capture it. Shingen then moved south to besiege Takiyama castle, on his way to the Hōjō capital of Odawara....
  
   (1568)
• Battle of Mimasetoge
  Battle of Mimasetoge
  The battle of Mimasetōge took place in 1569, as the forces of Takeda Shingen withdrew from repeated failed sieges of the Hōjō clan's Odawara Castle in the Kanagawa Prefecture of Japan. The Hōjō forces, led by the brothers Ujiteru and Ujikuni, laid in wait for him in the pass of Mimase...
  
   (1569)
• Battle of Mimigawa
  Battle of Mimigawa
  The Battle of Mimigawa was a battle, fought in Japan, between warlords Tawara Chikataka and Shimazu Yoshihisa in 1578. The Shimazu clan, following their conquest of the Hyuga Province, began to mobilize their armies and prepare for another attack. Meanwhile, the Tawara clan saw this as a threat and...
  
   (1578)
• Battle of Okitanawate (1584)
• Battle of Suriagehara
  Battle of Suriagehara
  was a battle during the Azuchi-Momoyama period of Japan.The Battle of Suriagahara served as the aftermath of Kurokawa, in which Ashina Yoshihiro with his 16,000 men stole the moment to act revenge on their previous defeat at Kurokawa castle. Date Masamune, with his superior 23,000 troops, defeated...
  
   (1589)

• Oda Nobunaga
  Oda Nobunaga
  was the initiator of the unification of Japan under the shogunate in the late 16th century, which ruled Japan until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. He was also a major daimyo during the Sengoku period of Japanese history. His opus was continued, completed and finalized by his successors Toyotomi...
  
  's battles
  • Battle of Norada
    Battle of Norada
    The Battle of Norada was a battle of Japan's Sengoku period, fought between forces under Azai Nagamasa and Rokkaku Yoshikata in the year 1560....
    
     (1560)
  • Siege of Marune
    Siege of Marune
    The was a battle during the Sengoku period of Japan.Marune was a frontier fortress in the possession of Oda Nobunaga. Tokugawa Ieyasu, who was at the time a forced retainer of the Imagawa, captured the fortress as part of the Imagawa advance that led to the fateful Battle of Okehazama in 1560...
    
     (1560)
  • Battle of Okehazama
    Battle of Okehazama
    The took place in June 1560. In this battle, Oda Nobunaga defeated Imagawa Yoshimoto and established himself as one of the front-running warlords in the Sengoku period.-Background:...
    
     (1560)
  • Battle of Anegawa
    Battle of Anegawa
    The 1570 came as a reaction to Oda Nobunaga's sieges of the castles of Odani and Yokoyama, which belonged to the Azai and Asakura clans. It was also referred to as the Battle of Nomura by the Oda and Azai clans and the Battle of Mitamura by the Asakura clan.As warriors sallied forth from the...
    
     (1570)
  • Siege of Enryakuji (1571)
  • Sieges of Nagashima
    Sieges of Nagashima
    The , taking place in 1571, 1573 and 1574, were part of Oda Nobunaga's campaigns against the Ikkō-ikki, arguably among his greatest enemies. Nagashima, in Owari Province along Japan's Pacific coast, was the location of a string of river island fortresses and defensive works controlled by the...
    
     (1571, 1573, 1574)
  • Battle of Mikatagahara
    Battle of Mikatagahara
    The ' was one of the most famous battles of Takeda Shingen's campaigns, and one of the best demonstrations of his cavalry-based tactics.-Background:...
    
     (1572)
  • Siege of Odani
    Siege of Odani
    The 1573 was the last stand of the Azai clan, one of Oda Nobunaga's chief opponents.Nobunaga took Odani Castle from Azai Nagamasa, who, left with no other option, committed suicide along with his son. His wife and three daughters were entrusted to Nobunaga, considering they were his sister and...
    
     (1573)
  • Sieges of Taketenjin (1574, 1580-1581)
  • Battle of Nagashino
    Battle of Nagashino
    The ' took place in 1575 near Nagashino Castle on the plain of Shitaragahara in the Mikawa province of Japan. Forces under Takeda Katsuyori had besieged the castle since the 17th of June; Okudaira Sadamasa , a Tokugawa vassal, commanded the defending force...
    
     (1575)
  • Battle of Tedorigawa
    Battle of Tedorigawa
    The took place near the Tedori River in Japan's Kaga Province in 1577. The battle site is in the modern-day Ishikawa Prefecture.- Background :The Tedorigawa Campaign was precipitated by Uesugi intervention inside the domain of the Hatakeyama clan, an Oda Client state...
    
     (1577)
  • Siege of Miki
    Siege of Miki
    The siege of Miki lasted from 1578 to 1580. Toyotomi Hideyoshi took Miki Castle, located in what is now Miki, Hyōgo, Japan, from Bessho Nagaharu, a retainer of the Mōri clan....
    
     (1578-1580)
  • Siege of Takamatsu
    Siege of Takamatsu
    In the 1582 siege of Takamatsu, Toyotomi Hideyoshi laid siege to Takamatsu Castle, which was controlled by the Mōri clan. He diverted a nearby river with dikes to surround and flood the castle, leading to a relatively speedy surrender. He also constructed towers on barges from which his...
    
     (1582)
  • Incident at Honnō-ji (1582)

• Unification by Toyotomi Hideyoshi
  Toyotomi Hideyoshi
  was a daimyo warrior, general and politician of the Sengoku period. He unified the political factions of Japan. He succeeded his former liege lord, Oda Nobunaga, and brought an end to the Sengoku period. The period of his rule is often called the Momoyama period, named after Hideyoshi's castle...
  
  
  • Battle of Yamazaki
    Battle of Yamazaki
    The was fought in 1582 in Yamazaki, Japan, located in current day Kyoto Prefecture. This battle is sometimes referred to as the Battle of Mt. Tennō ....
    
     (1582)
  • Battle of Shizugatake
    Battle of Shizugatake
    The was a battle in Sengoku period Japan between supporters of Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Oda Nobutaka.In May, 1583, a former general of Nobunaga's named Shibata Katsuie coordinated a number of simultaneous attacks on Shizugatake, a series of forts held by Hideyoshi's generals among whom was Nakagawa...
    
     (1583)
  • Battle of Komaki and Nagakute
    Battle of Komaki and Nagakute
    The consisted of two battles in 1584 between the forces of Hashiba Hideyoshi and the forces of Oda Nobukatsu and Tokugawa Ieyasu. Hideyoshi and Ieyasu had both served Oda Nobunaga and had not previously come into conflict; this would in fact be their only period of enmity...
    
     (1584)
  • Invasion of Shikoku
    Invasion of Shikoku (1585)
    In the 1585 invasion of Shikoku, Toyotomi Hideyoshi seized Shikoku, the smallest of Japan's four main islands, from Chōsokabe Motochika.Hideyoshi's army was divided into three forces. The first, under Hashiba Hidenaga and Hashiba Hidetsugu, consisted of 60,000 men, and assaulted the provinces of...
    
     (1585)
  • Battle of Hetsugigawa (1587)
  • Siege of Odawara
    Siege of Odawara (1590)
    The third ' occurred in 1590, and was the primary action in Toyotomi Hideyoshi's campaign to eliminate the Hōjō clan as a threat to his power. The months leading up to it saw hasty but major improvements in the defense of the castle, as Hideyoshi's intentions became clear...
    
     (1590)
  • Siege of Kunohe (1591)

• Hideyoshi's invasions of Korea
  • Battle of Bunroku (1592-1593)
  • Battle of Keicho (1597-1598)
    • Siege of Ulsan
      Siege of Ulsan
      On September 22, 1598, Korean and Chinese allied forces made a second attack against Japanese forces. The alliance army formation was Commander Ma Gui, leading an army of 24,000 Chinese, and an army of 5,500 Koreans were led by general Kim Eung-seo...
      
       (1597-1598)
    • Battle of Sacheon
      Battle of Sacheon (1598)
      The 1598 battle of Sacheon was a siege by Korean and Chinese forces against the Japanese fortification of Sacheon on September 28-29, 1598, during Toyotomi Hideyoshi's invasions of Korea.-Background:...
      
       (1598)
    • Battle of Noryang (1598)

• Battle of Sekigahara
  Battle of Sekigahara
  The , popularly known as the , was a decisive battle on October 21, 1600 which cleared the path to the Shogunate for Tokugawa Ieyasu...
  
   (1600)
  • Siege of Fushimi
    Siege of Fushimi
    The siege of Fushimi was a crucial battle in the series leading up to the decisive battle of Sekigahara which ended Japan's Sengoku period. Fushimi Castle was defended by a force loyal to Tokugawa Ieyasu's Eastern army, led by Torii Mototada...
    
    
  • Battle of Gifu Castle
    Battle of Gifu Castle
    The was a battle in August 1600 that led to the destruction of Gifu Castle in Gifu, Mino Province , Japan. The battle served as a prelude to the Battle of Sekigahara the following month. It pitted Oda Hidenobu of the western forces against Ikeda Terumasa and Fukushima Masanori of the eastern forces...
    
    
  • Siege of Ueda
    Siege of Ueda
    The siege of Ueda was staged in 1600 by Tokugawa Hidetada, son of the warlord Tokugawa Ieyasu, against Ueda castle in Shinano province, which was controlled by the Sanada family....
    
    

Edo Period

• Invasion of Ryukyu
  Invasion of Ryukyu
  The invasion of Ryukyu by forces of the Japanese feudal domain of Satsuma took place in 1609, and marked the beginning of the Ryūkyū Kingdom's status as a vassal state under Satsuma...
  
   (1609)
• Siege of Osaka
  Siege of Osaka
  The was a series of battles undertaken by the Tokugawa shogunate against the Toyotomi clan, and ending in that clan's destruction. Divided into two stages , and lasting from 1614 to 1615, the siege put an end to the last major armed opposition to the shogunate's establishment...
  
   (1614-1615)
• Shimabara Rebellion
  Shimabara Rebellion
  The was an uprising largely involving Japanese peasants, most of them Catholic Christians, in 1637–1638 during the Edo period.It was one of only a handful of instances of serious unrest during the relatively peaceful period of the Tokugawa shogunate's rule...
  
   (1637-1638)
• Shakushain's Revolt
  Shakushain's Revolt
  was an Ainu rebellion against Japanese authority on Hokkaidō between 1669 to 1672. It was led by Ainu chieftain Shakushain against the Matsumae clan, who represented Japanese trading and governmental interests in the area of Hokkaidō then controlled by the Japanese .The war initially began as a...
  
   (1669-1672)
• Jōkyō Uprising
  Jokyo Uprising
  The , or the Kasuke Uprising, was a large-scale peasant uprising that happened in 1686 in Azumidaira, Japan. Azumidaira at that time, was a part of the Matsumoto Domain under the control of the Tokugawa shogunate. The domain was ruled by the Mizuno clan at the time...
  
   (1686)
• Ueda Rebellion (1761) :ja:上田騒動
• Nijinomatsubara Rebellion (1771) :ja:虹の松原一揆
• Menashi-Kunashir Rebellion
  Menashi-Kunashir Rebellion
  or Menashi-Kunashir Battle was a battle in 1789 between Ainu and Japanese on the Shiretoko Peninsula in northeastern Hokkaidō. It began in May, 1789 when Ainu attacked Japanese on Kunashir Island and parts of the Menashi District as well as at sea. More than 70 Japanese were killed. The Japanese...
  
   (1789)
• Ōshio Heihachirō
  Oshio Heihachiro
  was a former yoriki and a Neo-Confucianism scholar of the Ōyōmei school in Osaka. He is best remembered for his fierce opposition to the Tokugawa shogunate...
  
  's Rebellion (1837)
• Tsushima Incident
  Tsushima Incident
  The Tsushima Incident occurred in 1861 when the Russians attempted to establish a year-round anchorage on the coast of the island of Tsushima, a Japanese territory located between Honshu and Korea.-Arrival of the Posadnik:...
  
   (1861)
• Battle of Shimonoseki Straits (1863)
• Battles for Shimonoseki (1863)
• Bombardment of Kagoshima
  Bombardment of Kagoshima
  The Bombardment of Kagoshima, also known as the , took place on 15–17 August 1863 during the Late Tokugawa shogunate. The British Royal Navy was fired on from the coastal batteries near town of Kagoshima and in retaliation bombarded the town...
  
   (1863)
• Mito Rebellion
  Mito rebellion
  The , also called the Kantō Insurrection or the , is a civil war that occurred in the area of Mito Domain in Japan between May 1864 and January 1865...
  
   (1864)
• Hamaguri rebellion
  Hamaguri rebellion
  The rebellion at the Hamaguri Gate of the Imperial Palace in Kyōto took place on August 20, 1864 and reflected the discontent of pro-imperial and anti-alien groups...
  
   (1864)
• First Chōshū expedition
  First Chōshū expedition
  The First Chōshū expedition was a punitive military expedition led by the Tokugawa Shogunate against the Chōshū Domain in retaliation for the attack of Chōshū on the Imperial Palace in the Hamaguri rebellion. The First Chōshū expedition was launched on 1 September 1864.The conflict finally led to...
  
   (1864)
• Battles for Shimonoseki (1864)
• Second Chōshū expedition
  Second Chōshū expedition
  The Second Chōshū expedition , also called the Summer War, was a punitive expedition led by the Tokugawa Shogunate against the Chōshū Domain. It followed the First Chōshū expedition of 1864....
  
   (1866)
• Boshin War
  Boshin War
  The was a civil war in Japan, fought from 1868 to 1869 between forces of the ruling Tokugawa shogunate and those seeking to return political power to the imperial court....
  
   (1868-1869)
• Siege of Goryokaku
  Republic of Ezo
  The ' was a short-lived state established by former Tokugawa retainers in what is now known as Hokkaidō, the large but sparsely populated northernmost island in modern Japan.-Background:...
  
   (1869)

Meiji Period

• Saga Rebellion
  Saga Rebellion
  The was an 1874 uprisings in Kyūshū against the new Meiji government of Japan. It was led by Etō Shimpei and Shima Yoshitake in their native domain of Hizen.-Background:...
  
   (1874)
• Shinpūren Rebellion (1876)
• Akizuki Rebellion
  Akizuki Rebellion
  -See also:*Hagi Rebellion*Saga Rebellion*Shinpūren Rebellion*Satsuma Rebellion...
  
   (1876)
• Hagi Rebellion
  Hagi Rebellion
  The 1876 was one of a number of ex-samurai uprisings which took place in the early Meiji period against the new Meiji government of Japan-Background:...
  
   (1876)
• Satsuma Rebellion
  Satsuma Rebellion
  The was a revolt of Satsuma ex-samurai against the Meiji government from January 29 to September 24, 1877, 9 years into the Meiji Era. It was the last, and the most serious, of a series of armed uprisings against the new government.-Background:...
  
   (1877)

First Sino-Japanese War

First Sino-Japanese War

The First Sino-Japanese War was fought between Qing Dynasty China and Meiji Japan, primarily over control of Korea...

(1894-1895)

• Battle of Yalu River
  Battle of Yalu River (1894)
  The Battle of the Yalu River , also called simply 'The Battle of Yalu' took place on September 17, 1894. It involved the Japanese and the Chinese navies, and was the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War...
  
   (1894)

Russo-Japanese War

Russo-Japanese War

The Russo-Japanese War was "the first great war of the 20th century." It grew out of rival imperial ambitions of the Russian Empire and Japanese Empire over Manchuria and Korea...

 (1904-1905)

• Battle of Port Arthur
  Battle of Port Arthur
  The Battle of Port Arthur was the starting battle of the Russo-Japanese War...
  
   (1904-1905)
• Battle of Yalu River
  Battle of Yalu River (1904)
  The Battle of Yalu River, 30 April to 1 May 1904, was the first major land battle during the Russo-Japanese War...
  
   (1904)
• Battle of the Yellow Sea
  Battle of the Yellow Sea
  The Battle of the Yellow Sea was a major naval engagement of the Russo-Japanese War, fought on 10 August 1904. In the Russian Navy, it was referred to as the Battle of 10 August. The battle foiled an attempt by the Russian fleet at Port Arthur to break out and form up with counterparts from...
  
   (1904)
• Battle of Nanshan
  Battle of Nanshan
  The was one of many vicious land battles of the Russo-Japanese War. It took place on 25 May 1904 across a two-mile wide defense line across the narrowest part of the Liáodōng Peninsula, covering the approaches to Port Arthur and on the 116-meter high Nanshan Hill, the present-day Jinzhou District,...
  
   (1904)
• Battle of Shantung (1904)
• Battle of Dairen (1904)
• Battle of Liaoyang
  Battle of Liaoyang
  The Battle of Liaoyang was one of the major land battles of the Russo-Japanese War....
  
   (1904)
• Battle of Tsushima
  Battle of Tsushima
  The Battle of Tsushima , commonly known as the “Sea of Japan Naval Battle” in Japan and the “Battle of Tsushima Strait”, was the major naval battle fought between Russia and Japan during the Russo-Japanese War...
  
   (1905)
• Battle of Mukden
  Battle of Mukden
  One of the largest land battles to be fought before World War I, the , the last major land battle of the Russo-Japanese War, was fought from 20 February to 10 March 1905 between Japan and Russia near Mukden in Manchuria...
  
   (1905)

Second Sino-Japanese War

Second Sino-Japanese War

The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. From 1937 to 1941, China fought Japan with some economic help from Germany , the Soviet Union and the United States...

 (1937-1945)

• Marco Polo Bridge Incident
  Marco Polo Bridge Incident
  The Marco Polo Bridge Incident was a battle between the Republic of China's National Revolutionary Army and the Imperial Japanese Army, often used as the marker for the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War .The eleven-arch granite bridge, Lugouqiao, is an architecturally significant structure,...
  
   (1937)
• Battle of Shanghai
  Battle of Shanghai
  The Battle of Shanghai, known in Chinese as Battle of Songhu, was the first of the twenty-two major engagements fought between the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China and the Imperial Japanese Army of the Empire of Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese War...
  
   (1937)
• Battle of Pingxingguan
  Battle of Pingxingguan
  The Battle of Pingxingguan , also commonly called the "Great Victory of Pingxingguan" in Mainland China, was an engagement fought between the 8th Route Army of the Communist Party of China and the Imperial Japanese Army on September 25, 1937....
  
   (1937)
• Battle of Nanjing
  Battle of Nanjing
  The Battle of Nanking began after the fall of Shanghai on October 9, 1937, and ended with the fall of the capital city of Nanking on December 13, 1937 to Japanese troops, a few days after the Republic of China Government had evacuated the city and relocated to Wuhan...
  
   (1937)
• Battle of Taiyuan
  Battle of Taiyuan
  The Japanese offensive called 太原作戦 or the Battle of Taiyuan was a major battle fought between China and Japan named for Taiyuan , which lay in the 2nd Military Region...
  
   (1937)
• Battle of Xuzhou
  Battle of Xuzhou
  The Battle of Xuzhou was fought between Japanese and Chinese forces in May 1938 during Second Sino-Japanese War. In contemporary accounts in English, the event was usually referred to as the "Battle of Hsuchow", using the Chinese Postal Map Romanization....
  
   (1937)
• Battle of Taierzhuang
  Battle of Taierzhuang
  The Battle of Tai'erzhuang was a battle of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1938, between armies of Chinese Kuomintang and Japan, and is sometimes considered as a part of Battle of Xuzhou....
  
   (1938)
• Battle of Halhin Gol (Nomonhan Incident) (1939)
• Battle of Changsha
  Battle of Changsha (1939)
  Battle of Changsha was the first attempt by Japan to take the city of Changsha, China, during the second Sino-Japanese War. It was the first major battle of the war to fall within the timeframe of what's widely considered World War II.- Background and strategy :The war had already reached a...
  
   (1939)
• Hundred Regiments Offensive
  Hundred Regiments Offensive
  The Hundred Regiments Offensive was a major campaign of the Communist Party of China's Red Army commanded by Peng Dehuai against the Imperial Japanese Army in Central China.-Background:...
  
   (1940)

World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

• Attack on Pearl Harbor
  Attack on Pearl Harbor
  The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941...
  
  
• Japanese invasion of Thailand
  Japanese Invasion of Thailand
  The Japanese invasion of Thailand occurred on December 8, 1941. It was fought between Thailand and the Empire of Japan. Despite fierce fighting in Southern Thailand, Thai resistance lasted only a few hours before ending in a ceasefire.-Background:...
  
  
• Battle of Malaya
  Battle of Malaya
  The Malayan Campaign was a campaign fought by Allied and Japanese forces in Malaya, from 8 December 1941 – 31 January 1942 during the Second World War. The campaign was dominated by land battles between British Commonwealth army units, and the Imperial Japanese Army...
  
  
• Battle of Hong Kong
  Battle of Hong Kong
  The Battle of Hong Kong took place during the Pacific campaign of World War II. It began on 8 December 1941 and ended on 25 December 1941 with Hong Kong, then a Crown colony, surrendering to the Empire of Japan.-Background:...
  
  
• Battle of Guam
  Battle of Guam (1941)
  The First Battle of Guam, was an engagement during the Pacific War in World War II, and took place on 8 December 1941 on Guam in the Mariana Islands between the Empire of Japan and the United States...
  
  
• Battle of Wake Island
  Battle of Wake Island
  The Battle of Wake Island began simultaneously with the Attack on Pearl Harbor and ended on 23 December 1941, with the surrender of the American forces to the Empire of Japan...
  
  
• Battle of Singapore
  Battle of Singapore
  The Battle of Singapore was fought in the South-East Asian theatre of the Second World War when the Empire of Japan invaded the Allied stronghold of Singapore. Singapore was the major British military base in Southeast Asia and nicknamed the "Gibraltar of the East"...
  
  
• Battle of Borneo
  Battle of Borneo (1941–42)
  For campaigns on eastern Borneo, see Battle of Tarakan and Battle of Balikpapan .The Battle of Borneo was a successful campaign by Japanese Imperial forces for control of Borneo island and concentrated mainly on the subjugation of the Kingdom of Sarawak, North Borneo, and the western part of...
  
  

• Battle of Bataan
  Battle of Bataan
  The Battle of Bataan represented the most intense phase of Imperial Japan's invasion of the Philippines during World War II. The capture of the Philippine Islands was crucial to Japan's effort to control the Southwest Pacific, seize the resource-rich Dutch East Indies, and protect its Southeast...
  
  
• Battle of Manado
  Battle of Manado
  The Battle of Manado was a battle of the Pacific Theatre of World War II. It occurred at Manado on the Minahasa peninsula on the northern part of the island of Celebes , from 11–13 January 1942 as an attempt to open a passage to attack Australia through the eastern part of Dutch East...
  
  
• Battle of Tarakan
  Battle of Tarakan (1942)
  The Battle of Tarakan took place on January 11–12, 1942. Even though Tarakan was only a small marshy island at northeastern Borneo in the Netherlands East Indies, but the 700 oil wells, oil refinery and airfield on it, was one of the main objectives for the Empire of Japan in the Pacific War...
  
  
• Battle of Balikpapan
  Battle of Balikpapan (1942)
  This article concerns the naval and land battles of Balikpapan in 1942. For information on the 1945 landings by Australian forces in the same area, see Second Battle of Balikpapan....
  
  
• Battle of Ambon
  Battle of Ambon
  The Battle of Ambon occurred on the island of Ambon in the Dutch East Indies , on 30 January – 3 February 1942, during World War II. A Japanese invasion was resisted by Dutch and Australian forces...
  
  
• Marshalls-Gilberts raids
  Marshalls-Gilberts raids
  The Marshalls–Gilberts raids were tactical airstrikes and naval artillery attacks by United States Navy aircraft carrier and other warship forces against Imperial Japanese Navy garrisons in the Marshall and Gilbert Islands on 1 February 1942. The Japanese garrisons were under the overall command...
  
  
• Battle of Makassar Strait
  Battle of Makassar Strait
  The Battle of Makassar Strait, also known as the Action of Madura Strait, the Action North of Lombok Strait and the Battle of the Flores Sea, was a naval battle of the Pacific theater of World War II...
  
  
• Invasion of Sumatra
  Invasion of Sumatra (1942)
  The Invasion of Sumatra by Imperial Japanese forces took place from 14 February to 28 March 1942. The invasion was part of the Pacific War in South-East Asia during World War II and led to the capture of the island...
  
  
• Battle of Palembang
• Battle of Badung Strait
  Battle of Badung Strait
  The Battle of Badung Strait was a naval battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II, fought on the night of 19/20 February 1942 in Badung Strait between the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command and the Imperial Japanese Navy...
  
  
• Battle of Timor
• Battle of the Java Sea
  Battle of the Java Sea
  The Battle of the Java Sea was a decisive naval battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II, that sealed the fate of the Netherlands East Indies....
  
  
• Battle of the Coral Sea
  Battle of the Coral Sea
  The Battle of the Coral Sea, fought from 4–8 May 1942, was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II between the Imperial Japanese Navy and Allied naval and air forces from the United States and Australia. The battle was the first fleet action in which aircraft carriers engaged...
  
  
• Battle of Corregidor
  Battle of Corregidor
  The Battle for Corregidor was the culmination of the Japanese campaign for the conquest of the Philippines. The fall of Bataan on 9 April 1942 ended all organized opposition by the U.S...
  
  
• Battle of Midway
  Battle of Midway
  The Battle of Midway is widely regarded as the most important naval battle of the Pacific Campaign of World War II. Between 4 and 7 June 1942, approximately one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea and six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States Navy decisively defeated...
  
  
• Battle of the Eastern Solomons
  Battle of the Eastern Solomons
  The naval Battle of the Eastern Solomons The naval Battle of the Eastern Solomons The naval Battle of the Eastern Solomons (also known as the Battle of the Stewart Islands and, in Japanese sources, as the , took place on 24–25 August 1942, and was the third carrier battle of the Pacific campaign...
  
  
• Battle of Savo Island
  Battle of Savo Island
  The Battle of Savo Island, also known as the First Battle of Savo Island and, in Japanese sources, as the , was a naval battle of the Pacific Campaign of World War II, between the Imperial Japanese Navy and Allied naval forces...
  
  
• Battle of Milne Bay
  Battle of Milne Bay
  The Battle of Milne Bay, also known as Operation RE by the Japanese, was a battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II. Japanese marines attacked the Australian base at Milne Bay on the eastern tip of New Guinea on 25 August 1942, and fighting continued until the Japanese retreated on 5...
  
  
• Battle of Tassafaronga
  Battle of Tassafaronga
  The Battle of Tassafaronga, sometimes referred to as the Fourth Battle of Savo Island or, in Japanese sources, as the , was a nighttime naval battle that took place November 30, 1942 between United States Navy and Imperial Japanese Navy warships during the Guadalcanal campaign...
  
  
• Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands
  Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands
  The Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, 26 October 1942, sometimes referred to as the Battle of Santa Cruz or in Japanese sources as the , was the fourth carrier battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II and the fourth major naval engagement fought between the United States Navy and the Imperial...
  
  
• Battle of Guadalcanal (7 August 1942 - 9 February 1943)

• Battle of the Bismarck Sea
  Battle of the Bismarck Sea
  The Battle of the Bismarck Sea took place in the South West Pacific Area during World War II. During the course of the battle, aircraft of the U.S. 5th Air Force and the Royal Australian Air Force attacked a Japanese convoy that was carrying troops to Lae, New Guinea...
  
   (2–4 March)
• Battle of the Komandorski Islands
  Battle of the Komandorski Islands
  The Battle of the Komandorski Islands was one of the most unusual engagements of World War II. It was a naval battle which took place on 27 March 1943 in the North Pacific area of the Pacific Ocean, near the Soviet Komandorski Islands.-Background:...
  
   (27 March)
• Battle of Empress Augusta Bay
  Battle of Empress Augusta Bay
  The Battle of Empress Augusta Bay, on 1–2 November 1943—also known as the Battle of Gazelle Bay, Operation Cherry Blossom, and in Japanese sources as the Sea Battle of Bougainville Bay Shore —was a naval battle fought near the island of Bougainville...
  
   (1–2 November)
• Battle of Tarawa
  Battle of Tarawa
  The Battle of Tarawa, code named Operation Galvanic, was a battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II, largely fought from November 20 to November 23, 1943. It was the first American offensive in the critical central Pacific region....
  
   (20 November - 23 November)

• Battle of Imphal
  Battle of Imphal
  The Battle of Imphal took place in the region around the city of Imphal, the capital of the state of Manipur in North-East India from March until July 1944. Japanese armies attempted to destroy the Allied forces at Imphal and invade India, but were driven back into Burma with heavy losses...
  
   (March - July)
• Battle of the Philippine Sea
  Battle of the Philippine Sea
  The Battle of the Philippine Sea was a decisive naval battle of World War II which effectively eliminated the Imperial Japanese Navy's ability to conduct large-scale carrier actions. It took place during the United States' amphibious invasion of the Mariana Islands during the Pacific War...
  
   (19–20 June)
• Battle of Saipan
  Battle of Saipan
  The Battle of Saipan was a battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II, fought on the island of Saipan in the Mariana Islands from 15 June-9 July 1944. The Allied invasion fleet embarking the expeditionary forces left Pearl Harbor on 5 June 1944, the day before Operation Overlord in Europe was...
  
   (15 June - 9 July)
• Battle of Peleliu
  Battle of Peleliu
  The Battle of Peleliu, codenamed Operation Stalemate II, was fought between the United States and the Empire of Japan in the Pacific Theater of World War II, from September–November 1944 on the island of Peleliu, present-day Palau. U.S...
  
   (September – November)
• Battle of Leyte Gulf
  Battle of Leyte Gulf
  The Battle of Leyte Gulf, also called the "Battles for Leyte Gulf", and formerly known as the "Second Battle of the Philippine Sea", is generally considered to be the largest naval battle of World War II and, by some criteria, possibly the largest naval battle in history.It was fought in waters...
  
   (23–26 October)
• Battle of Leyte
  Battle of Leyte
  The Battle of Leyte in the Pacific campaign of World War II was the invasion and conquest of the island of Leyte in the Philippines by American and Filipino guerrilla forces under the command of General Douglas MacArthur, who fought against the Imperial Japanese Army in the Philippines led by...
  
   (17 October - 31 December)

• Battle of Iwo Jima
  Battle of Iwo Jima
  The Battle of Iwo Jima , or Operation Detachment, was a major battle in which the United States fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Empire of Japan. The U.S...
  
   (19 February – 26 March)
• Battle of Okinawa
  Battle of Okinawa
  The Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, was fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa and was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War of World War II. The 82-day-long battle lasted from early April until mid-June 1945...
  
   (April - June)
• Operation Ten-Go
  Operation Ten-Go
  was the last major Japanese naval operation in the Pacific Theater of World War II. Other renderings of this operation's title in English include Operation Heaven One and Ten-ichi-gō....
  
   (April)
• Soviet invasion of Manchuria (9 August – 2 September)