* 1942 – World War II: Battle of Savo Island – Allied naval forces protecting their amphibious forces during the initial stages of the Battle of Guadalcanal are surprised and defeated by an Imperial Japanese Navy cruiser force.

* 1937 – Chinese Air Force Day: The beginning of air-to-air combat of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II in general, when 6 Imperial Japanese Mitsubishi G3M bombers are shot down by the Nationalist Chinese Air Force while raiding Chinese air bases.

* 1942 – World War II: the Guadalcanal Campaign: American forces defeat an attack by Imperial Japanese Army soldiers in the Battle of the Tenaru.

During the Tsarist times, the Ainu living in Russia were forbidden from identifying themselves as such, since the Imperial Japanese officials had claimed that all the regions inhabited by the Ainu in the past or present, are a part of Japan.

* 1942 – World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy launches a carrier-based air attack on Colombo, Ceylon during the Indian Ocean Raid.

During the Sino-Japanese War ( 1937 – 1945 ) and World War II ( 1939 – 1945 ), the Special Research Units of the Imperial Japanese Army, such as Unit 731, conducted human experimentation on thousands of Chinese, among others.

The Imperial Japanese Army had its cavalry uniformed as hussars, but they fought as dragoons.

He then left for the Tokyo Shinbu Gakko ( 東京振武學校 ), an Imperial Japanese Army Academy Preparatory School for Chinese students, in 1907.

Chiang served in the Imperial Japanese Army from 1909 to 1911.

The Imperial Japanese Navy was the first to assemble a large number of carriers into a single task force, known as Kido Butai.

After Japan went to war with China in 1937, passenger car production was restricted, so by 1938, Datsun's Yokohama plant concentrated on building trucks for the Imperial Japanese Army.

* 1941 – World War II: Attack on Pearl Harbor – The Imperial Japanese Navy attacks the United States Pacific Fleet and its defending Army Air Forces and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, causing a declaration of war upon Japan by the United States.

* 1941 – World War II: The Royal Navy capital ships and are sunk by Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo bombers near Malaya.

* 1941 – World War II: Battle of the Philippines – Imperial Japanese forces under the command of General Masaharu Homma land on the Philippine mainland.

The Imperial Japanese Navy's Kotaka ( 1887 )

In Imperial Japan, the left-wing of the Japanese Esperanto movement was persecuted, but its leaders were careful enough not to give the impression to the government that the Esperantists were revolutionaries, which proved a successful strategy.

He is a ceremonial figurehead under a form of constitutional monarchy and is head of the Japanese Imperial Family with functions as head of state.

" the Imperial person ") was also used in Old Japanese.

Imperial Seal of Japan | Japanese Imperial kamon — a stylized chrysanthemum blossom

The building was named after the ancient phrase of Hakkō ichiu ( literally " eight cords, one roof "), which had been attributed to Emperor Jimmu and, since 1928, has been espoused by the Imperial government as an expression of Japanese expansionism, as it envisioned to the unification of the world ( the " eight corners of the world ") under the Emperor's " sacred rule ", a goal that was considered imperative to all Japanese subjects, as Jimmu, finding five races in Japan, had made them all as " brothers of one family.

Imperial Seal of Japan | Japanese Imperial kamon — a stylized chrysanthemum blossom.

Imperial Seal of Japan | Japanese Imperial kamon — a stylized chrysanthemum blossom

** The Aquila Lander is a light shuttle used by the Imperial Navy

* 1908 – SMS Blücher, the last armored cruiser to be built by the German Imperial Navy, launches.

*, an Imperial German Navy light cruiser

* 1914 – A squadron of Britain's Royal Navy defeats an inferior squadron of the Imperial German High Seas Fleet in the Battle of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.

Thereafter the Imperial German Navy ceased any serious attempts to engage the British fleet and remained at home as a ' fleet in being '.

* SMS Elbing, light cruiser of the Imperial Germany Navy

* Tadashige Daigo ( 1891-1947 ), Imperial Japanese Navy admiral during World War II

The Japanese garrison comprised 4, 423 Imperial Japanese Army men under the command of Colonel Daihachi Itoh and 1, 494 Imperial Japanese Navy men.

At the beginning of World War II, an Imperial Japanese Navy submarine surfaced off the west coast of the Island.

* 1918 – The Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Kawachi blows up at Shunan, western Honshu, Japan, killing at least 621.

He started his career in the German Navy ( Kaiserliche Marine, or " Imperial Navy ") before World War I.

After naval studies in England between 1871 and 1878, Togo's role as Chief Admiral of the Grand Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy in the Russo-Japanese War made him a legend in Japanese military history, and earned him the nickname ' Nelson of the Orient ' in Britain.

In order to meet the increasing traffic and the demands of the Imperial German Navy, between 1907 and 1914 the canal width was increased.

The Imperial German Navy refers to the " Imperial Navy " () – the German Navy created at the time of the formation of the German Empire.

The forerunner of the Luftwaffe, the Imperial German Army Air Service, was founded in 1910 with the name Die Fliegertruppen des deutschen Kaiserreiches.

During World War I, the Imperial Army Air Service utilised a wide variety of aircraft, ranging from fighters ( such as those manufactured by Albatros-Flugzeugwerke and Fokker ) to reconnaissance aircraft ( Aviatik and DFW ) and heavy bombers ( Gothaer Waggonfabrik, better known simply as Gotha, and the Zeppelin-Staaken R. VI " giant " heavy bomber ).

He is the second British architect to win the Stirling Prize twice: the first time for the American Air Museum at the Imperial War Museum Duxford in 1998, and the second for 30 St Mary Axe in 2004.

They were also involved in providing custom ELINT equipment to the Imperial Iranian Air Force as part of Project Ibex and paid bribes to the Shah of Iran in order to secure contracts there.

* 1976 – Two Imperial Iranian Air Force F-4 Phantom II jets fly out to investigate an unidentified flying object when both independently lose instrumentation and communications as they approach, only to have them restored upon withdrawal.

The recommendations of the Air Committee had to be ratified by the Admiralty Board and the Imperial General Staff and, in consequence, the Committee was not particularly effective.

Alger, who flew the inaugural air mail flight from England to Australia for Imperial Airways ' Empires Air Routes, in February 1937.

The unit was a division-level force, and was part of the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force ( IJAAF ).

Royal Air Force Avro Rota Mk 1 Cierva Autogiro C30 A, at the Imperial War Museum Duxford, UK.

On September 21, the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service, commanded by Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni, began aerial bombardment of Nanking.

The Royal Flying Corps deployed 25 squadrons totalling 365 aircraft along the Arras sector, outnumbering the Imperial German Army Air Service by 2-to-1.

Despite the losses suffered by the Royal Flying Corps, the Imperial German Army Air Service failed to prevent the Royal Flying Corps from carrying out its prime objective, namely the continued support of the army throughout the Arras Offensive with up-to-date aerial photographs and reconnaissance information.

The company Link Aviation Devices Inc was then formed, and other sales followed including to the UK Royal Air Force and, ironically in view of the Pearl Harbor attack on 7 December 1941, to the Imperial Japanese Naval Air Arm.

Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen ( 2 May 1892 – 21 April 1918 ), also widely known as the Red Baron, was a German fighter pilot with the Imperial German Army Air Service ( Luftstreitkräfte ) during World War I.

* Imperial Iranian Air Force

* Imperial Iranian Air Force

Imperial Court, on Kennington Lane, was built in 1836 for the Licensed Victuallers ' School, and from 1921 to 1992 it was the headquarters of the Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes ( NAAFI ).