Notable violations of embassy extraterritoriality include repeated invasions of the British Embassy, Beijing ( 1967 ), the Iran hostage crisis ( 1979 – 1981 ), the Japanese embassy hostage crisis at the ambassador's residence in Lima, Peru ( 1996 ), the overrunning of the Israeli Embassy in Cairo, Egypt ( 2011 ).

During the Japanese invasions of Korea ( 1592 – 1598 ), Admiral Yi commanded his navy with kites.

The Mongol invasions of Japan in the 13th century spurred further evolution of the Japanese sword.

Moreover, the pact erased the legal distinction between war and peace since the signatories, having renounced the use of war began to wage wars without declaring them as evidenced by the U. S. intervention in Central America, the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931, the Italian invasion of Abyssinia in 1935, the Soviet invasion of Finland in 1939, and the German and Soviet Union invasions of Poland.

His health beginning to falter, but still yearning for some accomplishment to solidify his legacy, Hideyoshi adopted the dream of a Japanese conquest of China that Oda Nobunaga had contemplated, and launched two ill-fated invasions of Korea.

Category: Japanese invasions of Korea ( 1592 – 1598 )

* April 13 – Seven-Year War: The Siege of Busan ( an early action in the Japanese invasions of Korea ) begins.

* 1274 – November 20 – The Yuan Dynasty under Kublai Khan attempts the first of several invasions of Japan ; after capturing outlying islands, the Yuan forces are repulsed on the main island at the Battle of Bun ' ei by amassed Japanese warriors and a strong storm which batters their forces and fleet.

A Mongol bomb thrown against a charging Japanese samurai during the Mongol invasions of Japan, 1281.

* The Unification of Japan and the Japanese invasions of Korea.

* November 20 – Kublai Khan's Yuan Dynasty attempts the first of several invasions of Japan ( 30, 000 soldiers and support personnel sails from Korea ); after the Mongols capture outlying islands, they are repulsed on the main island at the Battle of Bun ' ei by amassed Japanese warriors and a strong storm which batters their forces and fleet.

Joseon dealt with a pair of Japanese invasions from 1592 to 1598 ( Imjin War or the Seven Years war ).

Tanegashima were widely used during Hideyoshi's unification of Japan and later the Japanese invasions of Korea in 1592.

During World War II, Japanese soldiers engaged in sexual slavery during their invasions across East Asia and Southeast Asia.

Red chili, a New World vegetable not found in Korea before European contact with the Americas, was introduced to Korea from Japan after the Japanese invasions ( 1592 – 1598 ) and became a staple ingredient in kimchi.

After the Japanese invasions of Korea the castle fell in 1598.

During the Japanese invasions of Korea ( 1592 – 1598 ), the Japanese warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi, with the ambition of conquering Ming China, invaded Korea with his daimyō and their troops in 1592 and again in 1597.

The repulsions of two Mongol invasions were momentous events in Japanese history.

During the Japanese invasions of Korea ( 1592 – 1598 ), the Japanese occupied Seoul by May 1592, and within three months of invading reached Pyongyang along with large numbers of Korean collaborators who at first viewed the Japanese as liberators from the corrupt aristocracy.

On 8 December 1941, the Japanese launched invasions of Thailand, Malaya and Hong Kong.

Bursting from the lips of a charging cavalry trooper was the last sound heard on this earth by untold numbers of Cheyennes, Sioux and Apaches, Mexican banditos under Pancho Villa, Japanese in the South Pacific, and Chinese and North Korean Communists in Korea.

According to Juha Janhunen, the ancestral languages of Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, Korean, and Japanese were spoken in a relatively small area comprising present-day North Korea, Southern Manchuria, and Southeastern Mongolia ( Johanson and Robbeets 2010: 2 ).

* 1910 – The Japan – Korea Treaty of 1910, also known as the Japan – Korea Annexation Treaty, becomes effective, officially starting the period of Japanese rule in Korea.

Japanese lamellar armour ( keiko ) passed through Korea and reached Japan around the 5th century.

Some observers ( including George Kennan ) believed that the Japanese treaty led Stalin to approve a plan to invade U. S .- supported South Korea on June 25, 1950.

During the combat operations from the atoll against Afghanistan ( 2001 – 2006 ) and Iraq ( 2003 – 2006 ), a number of allied militaries were based on the island including Australian, Japanese and the Republic of Korea.

It was eventually applied to one-third of the land area of the U. S. ( mostly in the West ) and was used against those with " Foreign Enemy Ancestry " — Japanese, and Korean, who were considered to have Japanese nationality ( since Korea had been under Japanese rule since 1910 ).

* 1876 – Japan and Korea sign a treaty granting Japanese citizens extraterritoriality rights, opening three ports to Japanese trade, and ending Korea's status as a tributary state of Qing Dynasty China.

* 1593 – Japanese invasion of Korea: Approximately 3, 000 Joseon defenders led by general Kwon Yul successfully repel more than 30, 000 Japanese forces in the Siege of Haengju.

The game is also popular in Korea, where it is called omok ( 오목 ( 五目 )) which has the same structure and origin as the Japanese name.

Japan has an ongoing dispute with North Korea over its abduction of Japanese citizens and nuclear weapons program.

However, Japanese influences are regarded as negative by two particular countries: China and South Korea.

Japanese normalization talks halted when North Korea refused to discuss a number of issues with Japan.

Before and during World War II, when Japan occupied Korea, Taiwan, parts of China, the Philippines, and various Pacific islands, locals in those countries learned Japanese as the language of the empire.

* 1992 – During a visit to South Korea, Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa apologizes for forcing Korean women into sexual slavery during World War II.

It includes Japan's annexation of the Okinawan island group in 1872, the First Sino-Japanese War ( 1894 – 1895 ), the Russo-Japanese War ( 1904 – 1905 ), the annexation of Korea, and the rise of Japanese militarism ( 1905 – 1945 ).

Under the constitution, North Korea has an unusual legal system based upon German civil law and influenced by Japanese legal theory.

The Japanese also declared North Korea in default.

* 1592 – Imjin War: Battle of Hansan Island Admiral Yi Sun-sin decisively defeats the Japanese Navy at Hansan Island.

Chinese and Korean troops assault the Japanese forces of Hideyoshi in the Siege of Ulsan Castle during the Imjin War ( 1592 – 1598 ).

** Nakagawa Hidemasa, Japanese military leader ( d. 1592 )

Internal conflicts within the royal court, civil unrest and other political struggles plagued the nation in the years that followed, worsened by the Japanese invasion of Korea between 1592 and 1598.

Japan had sought to claim sovereignty over Taiwan ( known to them as Takasago Koku ) since 1592, when Toyotomi Hideyoshi undertook a policy of overseas expansion and extending Japanese influence southward, to the west, was invaded and an attempt to invade Taiwan and subsequent invasion attempts were to be unsuccessful due mainly to disease and attacks by aborigines on the island.

In 1592 and 1598 Toyotomi Hideyoshi organized a 160, 000 army and navy for the conquest of China's Ming Dynasty by way of Korea, after the latter's refusal to allow Japanese forces to march through.

One of the most important events of his early life was when Yi met and became friends with Ryu Seong-ryong ( 류성룡, 柳成龍, 1542 – 1607 ), a prominent scholar who held a key official position of Dochaechalsa ( Hangul: 도체찰사, Hanja: 都體察使 ) in command of the military during the Japanese invasions of Korea ( 1592 – 1598 ).

Yi is remembered for his numerous victories fighting the Japanese during the Japanese invasions of Korea ( 1592 – 1598 ).