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

Reinhard Heydrich was killed after an attack by British trained Czechoslovak soldiers on behalf of the Czechoslovak government in exile in Operation Anthropoid, and knowledge from decoded transmissions allowed the U. S. to carry out a targeted attack, killing Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto while he was travelling by plane.

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

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.

* 1905 – Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima ends with the destruction of the Russian Baltic Fleet by Admiral Togo Heihachiro and the Imperial Japanese Navy.

* 1597 – Imjin War: Admiral Yi Sun-sin routs the Japanese Navy of 300 ships with only 13 ships at the Battle of Myeongnyang.

The dangpa was used by a few Korean marines in Admiral Yi's naval operations as " pushing " infantry, literally meaning to push back Japanese marines ; the remainder of Korean marines carried swords to board Japanese ships, or bows and arrows to attack from a distance.

The IJN deployed approximately 21 TBs during the conflict, and on 27 May 1905 the Japanese torpedo boat destroyers and TBs launched 16 torpedoes at the battleship Knyaz Suvorov, Admiral Rozhestvensky's flagship at the battle of Tsushima.

Image: Isoroku Yamamoto. jpg | Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese Imperial Navy Fleet Admiral responsible for attack on Pearl Harbor.

From left, clockwise: The Wright brothers achieve the first manned flight by airplane, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina | Kitty Hawk in 1903 ; U. S. President William McKinley is William McKinley assassination | assassinated in 1901 by Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition ; An 1906 San Francisco earthquake | earthquake on the San Andreas Fault destroys much of San Francisco, killing at least 3, 000 in 1906 ; United States | America gains control over the Philippines in 1902, after the Philippine – American War ; Rock being moved to construct the Panama Canal ; Admiral Heihachiro Togo | Togo before the Battle of Tsushima in 1905, part of the Russo-Japanese War, leading to Japanese victory and their establishment as a great power.

** WWII ends: The final official surrender of Japan is accepted by the Supreme Allied Commander, General Douglas MacArthur, and Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz for the United States, and delegates from Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, China, and others from a Japanese delegation led by Mamoru Shigemitsu, on board the American battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.

* February 14 – WWII – Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura begins his duties as Japanese Ambassador to the United States.

* November 26 – WWII – Attack on Pearl Harbor: A fleet of 6 aircraft carriers commanded by Japanese Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo leaves Hitokapu Bay for Pearl Harbor under strict radio silence

This conflict brought prominence to Admiral Yi Sun-sin as he contributed to eventually repelling the Japanese forces with the innovative use of his invention, the turtle ship, a massive, yet swift, ramming / cannon ship fitted with iron spikes and, according to some sources, an iron-plated deck ).

On August 1, 1942, Lieutenants Nemesio Aguirre, Fernández Bakaicoa and Juanna received a Basque-coded message from San Diego for Admiral Chester Nimitz warning him of the upcoming Operation Apple to remove the Japanese from the Solomon Islands.

The P-38 was responsible for shooting down more Japanese aircraft than any other U. S. Army Air Forces type during the war ; and is particularly famous for being the airplane that shot down Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto's airplane.

Although very little could be documented, Zaharoff was viewed as a master of bribery and corruption, but the few incidents that did become public, such as the large bribes received by Japanese Admiral Fuji, suggested that a lot more was going on behind the scenes.

In this battle the Japanese fleet under Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō destroyed two-thirds of the Russian fleet, under Admiral Zinovy Rozhestvensky, which had traveled over to reach the Far East.

However, the Russians were revitalised by the arrival of Admiral Stepan Makarov and were able to achieve some degree of success against the Japanese.

With the inactivity of the First Pacific Squadron after the death of Admiral Makarov and the tightening of the Japanese noose around Port Arthur, the Russians considered sending part of their Baltic Fleet to the Far East.

* 1884 – Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese naval marshal general ( d. 1943 )

* April 18 – Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese admiral ( b. 1884 )

* April 4 – Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese naval commander ( d. 1943 )

Marshal ( Imperial Japanese Navy ) | Naval Marshal General Isoroku Yamamoto

The army was to be supported by Japanese naval units, including the Combined Fleet under the command of Isoroku Yamamoto, which was headquartered at Truk.

It also caused Japan to withdraw its powerful aircraft carrier force from the Indian Ocean to defend their Home Islands, and the raid contributed to Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto's decision to attack Midway — an attack that turned into a decisive rout of the Imperial Japanese Navy ( IJN ) by the U. S. Navy near Midway Island in the Central Pacific.

The Japanese Combined Fleet was led by Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, until he was killed in an attack by U. S. fighter planes in April 1943.

* Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto ordered the meeting of the Imperial Japanese Navy strike force for the Hawaii Operation attack on Pearl Harbor, November 22, 1941 in Tankan or Hitokappu Bay, in Iturup Island, South Kurils.

Taken by surprise by the Allied offensive in the Solomons, Japanese naval — under Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto — and army forces prepared a counteroffensive, with the goal of driving the Allies out of Guadalcanal and Tulagi.

At the time, many Japanese politicians, including Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, were shocked by the Anglo-German naval agreement, but the leaders of the military clique then in control in Tokyo concluded ( correctly ) that it was a ruse designed to buy the Nazis time to match the British navy.

On 18 April 1943, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the architect of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, was shot down and killed by a United States P-38 Lightning over south Bougainville after taking off from Rabaul.

Every Japanese code was eventually broken, and the intelligence gathered made possible such operations as the victorious American ambush of the Japanese Navy at Midway and the shooting down of Isoroku Yamamoto in Operation Vengeance.

* Isoroku Yamamoto, named " Isoroku " because his father's age was 56 at his birth, and " Isoroku " is an old Japanese term meaning 56.

At the same time, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto ( the commander of the Japanese Combined Fleet ) defeated U. S. naval forces in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, driving them away from the area.

With five carriers fully equipped with air groups, plus their numerous battleships, cruisers, and destroyers, the Japanese Combined Fleet, directed by Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, was confident that they could make up for their defeat at the Battle of Midway.

Thus, Japanese Combined Fleet commander, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, authorized the use of faster warships at night to make the deliveries when the threat of detection was much less and aerial attack minimal.

* 1971 – Seigo Yamamoto, Japanese race car driver

* 1982 – Sakon Yamamoto, Japanese race car driver

* 1967 – Mika Yamamoto, Japanese journalist ( d. 2012 )

In 1976, Bob Hall, a journalist at Motor Trend magazine who was an expert in Japanese cars and fluent in the language, met Kenichi Yamamoto and Gai Arai, head of Research and Development at Mazda.

* 1974 – Taro Yamamoto, Japanese actor

* 1974 – Yutaka Yamamoto, Japanese cartoonist and director, founded Ordet animation studio

** Norifumi Yamamoto, Japanese mixed martial artist

** Linda Yamamoto, Japanese pop star

* November 26 – Yamamoto Gonnohyōe, the 16th and 22nd Prime Minister of Japan, an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy

* June 12 – Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Japanese samurai ( d. 1719

There is also a Japanese animated version of One Thousand and One Nights, directed by Osamu Tezuka and Eichii Yamamoto.

Many Japanese surnames derive from geographical features ; for example, Ishikawa ( 石川 ) means " stone river ", Yamamoto ( 山本 ) means " the base of the mountain ", and Inoue ( 井上 ) means " above the well ".

* Uma ( English: Horse ), a 1941 Japanese film by Kajirō Yamamoto

In January 2005, Yamamoto shoplifted dried cuttlefish ( a Japanese popular relish taken with beer ) at a supermarket in Tokyo and was arrested.

First Japanese heavy metal bands started emerging in the late 1970s, pioneered by bands like Bow Wow, formed in 1975 by guitarist Kyoji Yamamoto, and Loudness, formed in 1981 by guitarist Akira Takasaki.

In 1903, the Navy Minister Yamamoto Gonnohyōe appointed Tōgō Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy.