* 1945 – World War II: Filipino troops of the 66th Infantry Regiment, Philippine Commonwealth Army, USAFIP-NL and the American troops of the 33rd and 37th Infantry Division, United States Army was liberated in Baguio City and they fought against the Japanese forces under by General Tomoyuki Yamashita.

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

* 1975 – The Japanese Red Army takes more than 50 hostages at the AIA Building housing several embassies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

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.

The U. S. Army's last horse cavalry actions were fought during World War II: a ) by the 26th Cavalry Regiment ( PS ) in World War II — a small mounted regiment of Philippine Scouts which fought the Japanese during the retreat down the Bataan peninsula, until it was effectively destroyed by January 1942 ; and b ) on captured German horses by the mounted reconnaissance section of the U. S. 10th Mountain Division in a spearhead pursuit of the German Army across the Po Valley in Italy in April 1945.

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.

This disrupted Chiang's offensives against the Communists for a time, although it was the northern factions of Hu Hanmin's Guangzhou ( Canton ) government ( notably the 19th Route Army ) that primarily led the offensive against the Japanese during this skirmish.

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.

* 1944 – World War II: The People's Army of Vietnam is formed to resist Japanese occupation of Indo-China, now Vietnam.

* 1937 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanjing – Nanjing, defended by the National Revolutionary Army under the command of General Tang Shengzhi, falls to the Japanese.

Among notable recipients below flag rank are: X-1 test pilot Chuck Yeager and X-15 test pilot Robert M. White, who both received the DSM as U. S. Air Force majors ; Air Force Major Rudolf Anderson, the U-2 pilot shot down during the Cuban Missile Crisis ; director Frank Capra, decorated in 1945 as an Army colonel ; actor James Stewart, decorated in 1945 as an Army Air Forces colonel ( later Air Force Brigadier General ); Col. Wendell Fertig, who led Filipino guerrillas behind Japanese lines ; Col. ( later Major General ) John K. Singlaub, who led partisan forces in the Korean War ; and Maj. Maude C. Davison, who led the " Angels of Bataan and Corregidor " during their imprisonment by the Japanese, and Colonel William S. Taylor, Program Manager Multiple Launch Rocket System.

Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service primarily operating the Mitsubishi A6M Zero, and the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service flying the Nakajima Ki-27 and the Nakajima Ki-43, initially enjoyed great success, as these fighters generally had better range, maneuverability, speed and climb rates than their Allied counterparts.

* 1943 – Imperial Japanese naval forces complete the evacuation of Imperial Japanese Army troops from Guadalcanal during Operation Ke, ending Japanese attempts to retake the island from Allied forces in the Guadalcanal Campaign.

* 1945 – World War II: The British Indian Army and Imperial Japanese Army begin a series of battles known as the Battle of Pokoku and Irrawaddy River operations.

* 1945 – World War II: The Battle of Okinawa ends when the organized resistance of Imperial Japanese Army forces collapses in the Mabuni area on the southern tip of the main island.

* 1942 – Shinobu Tsukasa, Japanese organized crime figure

* 1899 – NEC Corporation is organized as the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital.

Other organized enterprises include the Russian mafia, Albanian Mafia, Irish mob, Chinese Triads, and the Japanese Yakuza.

Othello was first introduced in Japan in 1973, by Tsukuda Original Co., who at Becker's suggestion organized the Japanese Othello Association.

The Russians were poorly organized and the Japanese defeated them in a series of battles on land and at sea.

Although the earliest organized group of Japanese emigrants settled in Mexico in 1897, the four largest populations of Japanese and descendants of Japanese immigrants live in Brazil, the United States, Canada and Peru.

Although the earliest organized group of Japanese emigrants settled in Mexico in 1897, the four largest populations of Japanese and descendants of Japanese immigrants live in Brazil, the United States, Canada and Peru.

The later period of Japanese rule saw a local elite educated and organized.

The Red Army fought a disciplined and organized guerilla campaign against superior Japanese forces, allowing it to gain experience.

Chinese in Manchuria organized volunteer armies to oppose the Japanese and the new state required a war lasting several years to appease the country.

The first Portuguese paratoopers were part of a small commando unit, organized in Australia, during World War II, with the objective to be droped in the reaguard of the Japanese troops that were occupying Portuguese Timor.

The roots of the localization movement began during the Japanese rule of Taiwan from 1895 to 1945, when groups organized to lobby the Imperial Japanese government for greater Taiwanese autonomy and home rule.

Following the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Warren organized the state's civilian defense program, warning in January, 1942, that, " The Japanese situation as it exists in this state today may well be the Achilles heel of the entire civilian defense effort.

Hanja dictionaries ( Jajeon ( 자전, 字典 ) or Okpyeon ( 옥편, 玉篇 )) are organized by radicals, and kanji ( Japanese, 漢字 ).

The fall of Bataan on April 9, 1942 ended all organized opposition by the U. S. Armed Forces in the Far East ( USAFFE ) to the invading Japanese forces on Luzon in the northern Philippines.

During the Japanese occupation, the enemy, through the use of force and threats, organized their own version of the Philippine Constabulary which they called the Bureau of Constabulary ; it was later renamed to match the pre-war Constabulary with the creation of the Second Republic.

Meanwhile, the Japanese military organized a new government in the Philippines known as the Second Philippine Republic, which was headed by president José P. Laurel.

The Mongols, of course, knew nothing of Japanese conventions, and were arguably much more organized in their strike tactics.

Minh was captured and later had only a single tooth that remained from the torture he had suffered at the hands of the Kempeitai ( Japanese military police ).

The Japanese Kempeitai, Tokkō, collaborationist Chinese police, and Chinese citizens in the service of the Japanese all worked to censor information, monitor any opposition, and torture enemies and dissenters.

During the Japanese Occupation of Singapore, Nathan worked for the Japanese Kempeitai as a translator.

He was trained in military officer school by the Japanese Kempeitai when Japan began using Cao Đài paramilitary troops.

In 1907, the Kempeitai was ordered to Korea where its main duty was legally defined as " preserving the ( Japanese army's ) peace ", although it also functioned as a military police for the Japanese army stationed there.

The Kempeitai were abhorred in Japan's mainland, too, especially during World War II when Prime Minister Hideki Tōjō, formerly the Commander of the Kempeitai of the Japanese Army in Manchuria from 1935 to 1937, used the Kempeitai extensively to make sure that everyone was loyal to the war.

As many foreign territories fell under the Japanese military occupation during the 1930s and the early 1940s, the Kempeitai recruited a large number of locals in those territories.

The Kempeitai was disarmed and disbanded after the Japanese surrender in August 1945.

** Kesago Nakajima, Since 1921 relevant military intelligence chief, also from 1941 lead Japanese State Police among the Kempeitai operation inside Japan and Asia during wartimes

**** Kempeitai ( Imperial Japanese Gendarmerie )

* Kempeitai native section ( Japanese / Manchu and others units )

* Kempeitai native branch ( Japanese / Mongol members )

* Kempeitai native section ( Japanese / Chinese units )

* Kempeitai branches in area ( Japanese / native units )

* Kempeitai ( Imperial Japanese Gendarmerie )

In terms of government, the Sirian Empire is reminiscent of fascist states that existed in the Second World War ; they frequently employ a much-feared secret police force named the Kaitempi in an obvious anagram of the Japanese Kempeitai, or Kaimina Tempiti, they censor much of their media, and they actively seek to quell any opposition to the government or the war through the use of violence and intimidation.

Gen. Yamashita instructed the Syonan garrison to cooperate with the Syonan Kempeitai, the Japanese military police to " punish hostile Chinese severely ".

* additional information respect at Japanese Nationalist groups, Kempeitai, Kwantung Army, Group 371 and other relationed topics

The Japanese secret police ( Kempeitai ) responded by torturing and beheading any suspect, which in general did not deter the Moluccans.