* 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.

* 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.

* 1913 – Haruna, the fourth and last ship of the, launches, eventually becoming one of the Japanese workhorses during World War I and World War II.

< imagemap > File: 1940s decade montage. png | Above title bar: events during World War II ( 1939 – 1945 ): From left to right: Troops in an LCVP landing craft approaching " Omaha " Beach on " D-Day "; Adolf Hitler visits Paris, soon after the Battle of France ; The Holocaust occurred during the war as Nazi Germany carried out a programme of systematic state-sponsored genocide, during which approximately six million European Jews were killed ; The Japanese attack on the American naval base of Pearl Harbor launches the United States into the war ; An Observer Corps spotter scans the skies of London during the Battle of Britain ; The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the first uses of nuclear weapons, killing over a quarter million people and leading to the Japanese surrender ; Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Instrument of Surrender on behalf of the Japanese Government, on board USS Missouri, effectively ending the war.

** The Japanese Navy launches an air raid on Trincomalee in Ceylon ( Sri Lanka ); the Royal Navy aircraft carrier and Royal Australian Navy destroyer are sunk off the country's East Coast.

** Attack on Pearl Harbor: The Imperial Japanese Navy launches a surprise attack on the United States fleet at Pearl Harbor, thus drawing the United States into World War II.

Entirely composed of Japanese artists, the revue launches the Kabuki in Montmartre

Perhaps as a result, the Japanese only learned of one bomb's reaching Wyoming, landing and failing to explode, so they stopped the launches after less than six months.

The Nimitz launches a massive strike force against the incoming Japanese forces, but before they can reach the enemy armada, the time storm returns.

When Filipino soldiers of the 2nd, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 25th and 26th Infantry Division of the Philippine Commonwealth Army and the 2nd Infantry Regiment of the Philippine Constabulary was re-invading launches to entering liberated the province of Nueva Ecija and helping recognized guerrilla resistance fighter units, the Hukbalahap Communist guerrillas and the American troops against the Japanese Imperial forces during the Invasion of Nueva Ecija.

** The U. S. Army Air Forces Eleventh Air Force launches its third raid against Japanese bases in the Kurile Islands, with seven B-24 Liberators and 12 B-25 Mitchells dropping 12 tons ( 10, 886 kg ) of bombs on Paramushiro and Shumushu.

* May 4 – launches three air strikes against Japanese shipping at Tulagi, sinking a minesweeper and damaging a destroyer and a few other ships.

** Task Force 58 launches fighter sweeps over Kyushu, claiming 29 Japanese aircraft shot down and 51 destroyed on the ground on the first day.

Japan does not declare war but instead launches sneak attacks on United States ships en route to the Philippines and Hawaii ; an invasion fleet about to launch a surprise attack on San Francisco is stopped by the hero using the weapon from a captured Japanese vessel.

The workers and suppliers arrived in Tawau in Japanese ships, and all were disembarked into launches and lighters and taken direct to Si-Amil.

His new female form is just as strong as his male form, and has a power of attraction that quickly launches her into a career as a Japanese idol.

* 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.

A Japanese naval transport convoy headed towards Guadalcanal is turned-back by an Allied air attack, losing one destroyer and one transport sunk, and one light cruiser heavily damaged.

It had a population of four American civilians, who were all evacuated in 1942 after Japanese air and naval attacks.

" In addition to the lack of evidence, scientists cite the fact that Bigfoot is alleged to live in regions unusual for a large, nonhuman primate, i. e., temperate latitudes in the northern hemisphere ; all recognized nonhuman apes are found in the tropics of Africa and Asia ( although some smaller primates, such as Japanese macaques, are found in Asia up to the latitude of Northern California, and can cope with air temperatures to-20 ° C (- 4 ° F )).

By the summer of 1944, victories in the Southwest and Central Pacific had brought the war closer to Japan, with American bombers able to strike at the Japanese main islands from air bases secured during the Mariana Islands campaign ( June — August 1944 ).

Having been almost entirely rebuilt twice, once due to Japanese air raids during World War II, and again after being devastated by Cyclone Tracy in 1974, the city is one of Australia's most modern capitals.

They quickly gained air superiority over the Allies, who at this stage of the war were often disorganized, under-trained and poorly equipped, and Japanese air power contributed significantly to their successes in the Philippines, Malaysia and Singapore, the Dutch East Indies and Burma.

A Japanese air attack on December 8, 1941 by 14 twin-engined Mitsubishi G3M " Nell " bombers killed two of the Kamehameha School colonists: Richard " Dicky " Kanani Whaley, and Joseph Kealoha Keliʻhananui.

British heavy cruisers HMS Dorsetshire ( 40 ) | Dorsetshire and HMS Cornwall ( 56 ) | Cornwall under Japanese air attack and heavily damaged on April 5, 1942

* Compressed oxygen, as well as some compressed air, was used in the Japanese Type 93 torpedo.

In 1932, Japanese air and sea forces bombarded the Chinese city of Shanghai, sparking the January 28 Incident.

A Roman Catholic chaplain, Lieutenant Commander Joseph T. O ' Callahan, administering the last rites to an injured crewman aboard USS Franklin ( CV-13 ) | USS Franklin, after the ship was set afire by a Japanese air attack, 19 March 1945.

* 1942 – World War II: Japanese ships retreat after their defeat in the Battle of Cape Esperance with the Japanese commander, Aritomo Gotō dying from wounds suffered in the battle and two Japanese destroyers sunk by Allied air attack.

In the traditional Japanese process, the fired raku piece is removed from the hot kiln and is allowed to cool in the open air or in a container filled with combustible material.

Japanese members of the Unification Church are the largest share of the air travel market in Korea.

* July 3 – WWII: Guadalcanal, occupied only by aborigines falls to the Japanese Naval construction force deployed to construct an air field on the island.

During his time in Hawaii, Patton was part of the military units responsible for the defense of the islands, and specifically wrote a defense plan, called " Surprise ", anticipating an air raid against Pearl Harbor – 10 years before the attack by the Imperial Japanese Navy on December 7, 1941.

" Part of the confusion and controversy derives from the fact that the German attack, which became nicknamed " The Little Pearl Harbor " after the Japanese air attack on the American naval base in Hawaii, was highly destructive and lethal in itself, apart from the effects of the gas.