* 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.

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

The Japanese Navy launches an air raid on Trincomalee in Ceylon ( Sri Lanka ); Royal Navy aircraft carrier and Royal Australian Navy Destroyer are sunk off the island's east coast.

* 1981 – The U. S. Navy nuclear submarine accidentally collides with the Nissho Maru, a Japanese cargo ship, sinking it.

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

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

* 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.

US Navy destroyers were among the first American units to be dispatched upon the American entry to the war, and a squadron of Japanese destroyers even joined Allied patrols in the Mediterranean.

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

* 1942 – World War II: U. S. Navy conducts Marshalls-Gilberts raids, the first offensive action by the United States against Japanese forces in the Pacific Theater.

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.

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

Indian Navy | Indian, Japanese and US naval warships take part in a military exercise near Bōsō Peninsula in 2007.

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

U. S. Navy dive bombers sink the Japanese cruiser Mikuma and four Japanese carriers.

* 1944 – the last battleship built by the United States Navy and future site of the signing of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, is commissioned.

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

When Peter B. Kyne ( Pride Of Palomar, 43 ) informed us in 1921 that we had an instinctive dislike for the Japanese, did the heated debates of the Californians settle the truth or falsity of the proposition??

Jim Souhan of the Minneapolis Star Tribune said he did not see Matsui as a rookie in 2003 because " it would be an insult to the Japanese league to pretend that experience didn't count.

The late author Sheldon H. Harris in his book " Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932-1945, and the American cover up " wrote that, The test program, could be part of Project AGILE or Project OCONUS which began in fall 1962 and which was funded at least through fiscal year 1963, was considered by the Chemical Corps to be “ an ambitious one .” The tests were designed to cover “ not only trials at sea, but Arctic and tropical environmental tests as well .” The tests, presumably, were conducted at what research officers designated, but did not name, “ satellite sites .” These sites were located both in the continental United States and in foreign countries.

The treaty opened the Japanese ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to United States trade and guaranteed the safety of shipwrecked U. S. sailors ; however, the treaty did not create a basis for establishing a permanent residence in these locations.

However, Chiang's allied commander Zhang Xueliang, whose forces were used in his attack and whose homeland of Manchuria had been recently invaded by the Japanese, did not support the attack on the Communists.

The clipper bow on carriers was an American peculiarity, Japanese ships did not feature it and British ships had the similar but differently-shaped " hurricane bow ," whose purpose was, like the clipper bow, to improve hydrodynamic efficiency and, unlike the clipper bow, protect the hangar deck from spray.

Gilson sold his production laboratory to a Japanese firm in the 1980s, but production has ceased since ; so did Chatham's, after the 1989 San Francisco earthquake.

His idea was reported in Japanese scientific journals, but did not reach Europe or the Americas.

While light, highly maneuverable aircraft did have some advantages in fighter-versus-fighter combat, those could usually be overcome by sound tactical doctrine, and the design approach of the Italians and Japanese made their planes ill-suited as interceptors or attack aircraft.

In World War II, Japanese-held Yap was one of the islands bypassed in the U. S. " island-hopping " strategy, although it was regularly bombed by U. S. ships and aircraft, and Yap-based Japanese bombers did some damage in return.

The next couple of years saw Lola improve slightly — their car was arguably marginally superior to the Reynard in 1990 — and March slip, but both were crushed by the Reynard teams and by the mid-90s, F3000 was a virtual Reynard monopoly, although Lola did eventually return with a promising car and the Japanese Footwork and Dome chassis were seen in Europe.

The Japanese did not acquire firearms until the 16th century, and then from the Portuguese rather than the Chinese.

One " Giger Bar " sprang up in Tokyo, but the realization of his designs were a great disappointment to the artist, since the Japanese organization behind the venture did not wait for his final designs, but decided to barrel ahead with nothing more than Giger's rough preliminary sketches.

Left-wing organizations, such as the Japan Socialist Party and the Japanese Communist Party, quickly reestablished themselves, as did various conservative parties.

Resource development projects in Australia attracted Japanese capital, as did trade protectionism by necessitating local production for the Australian market.

" hair of the eye "); modern mieru (" to be visible ") and kikoeru (" to be audible ") retain what may have been a frequentative suffix-ru ( kikoyu > kikoyuru ( the attributive form, which slowly replaced the plain form starting in the late Heian period ) > kikoeru ( as all shimo-nidan verbs in modern Japanese did )); and the genitive particle ga remains in intentionally archaic speech.

Hitler did not wish for any information that might lead the Japanese into attacking the Soviet Union to reach their ears.

Kimono-clad Japanese women did not wear panties and several women refused to jump into safety nets because they were ashamed of being seen from below.

During its years of colonial rule, Japan moved more than 1, 000 Japanese to the Marshall Islands although they never outnumbered the indigenous peoples as they did in the Mariana Islands and Palau.

This DVD release is the first version of the film in the United States to include both Japanese and English language tracks, as Fox did not have the rights to the Japanese audio track for their version.

In North America releases of the Mega Man Zero games, enemies and bosses killed with a saber attack would not gush blood as they did in the Japanese versions.

In 1998, the group appeared on the album Happy Hour by Japanese female rockers Shonen Knife ( also a three piece ); they did backing vocals on the song " Sushi Bar ".

Katsufumi Sato, a Japanese scientist, did calculations using modern birds and decided that it is impossible for a pterosaur to stay aloft.

Many of Japan's wrestlers including top stars such as Shinya Hashimoto, Riki Choshu and Keiji Mutoh came from a legitimate martial arts background and many Japanese Pro Wrestlers in the 90's began to pursue careers in Mixed Martial Arts Organizations such as Pancrase and Shooto which at the time retained the original look of Puroresu but did not have predetermined outcomes to the matches.