* 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.

Those defending the city encountered Chinese troops fleeing from previous defeats such as the Battle of Shanghai, running from the advancing Japanese army.

In some case, regimental commanders of units defending the capital were shot and killed by the company commanders of units in flight simply because the regimental commanders refused to move out of the way so that the fleeing units would have a more direct route to escape further from the Japanese.

Puller commanded 1st Battalion, 7th Marines ( 1 / 7 ), the only American unit defending the airfield against a regiment-strength Japanese force.

Japan considered Saipan as part of the last line of defenses for the Japanese homeland, and thus had heavily committed to defending it.

Japanese assaults from the ground and air soon made the forward landing grounds that much of the RAF's only real hope of defending Singapore from the air rested upon untenable.

The functions of the Tosen-bugyō included: ( 1 ) defending trading ships in Japanese waters, ( 2 ) procuring export goods, ( 3 ) mediating between the Muromachi shogunate and shipping interests, and ( 4 ) managing record-keeping.

* Qi Jiguang ( 1528 – 1588 ), Ming Dynasty military general most remembered for defending coastal China against Japanese pirates

It trained in Burma before the American entry into World War II with the mission of defending China against Japanese forces.

It is estimated while defending Rangoon, the AVG destroyed 50 Japanese aircraft while losing 20 P-40s.

* December 14-In the first world title fight in history between two Japanese fighters, Hiroshi Kobayashi, with only 11 knockout wins in fifty seven previous bouts, drops defending world Jr. Lightweight champion Yoshiaki Numata four times before knocking him out in twelve rounds to win the world title, Tokyo.

Therefore clearly the Chinese were the aggressors, and the Japanese were merely ' defending themselves '.

*, a Grimsby class sloop commissioned in 1936 and was lost on 4 March 1942 while defending a convoy from five Japanese warships

More than 31, 000 Russians ultimately perished defending Port Arthur, but Japanese losses were much higher, losses that nearly undermined their war effort.

From 20 – 25 October, Japanese land forces on Guadalcanal attempted to capture Henderson Field with a large-scale attack against U. S. troops defending the airfield.

* In 2004, she wrote In Defense of Internment: The Case for ' Racial Profiling ' in World War II and the War on Terror, defending the U. S. government's internment of 112, 000 Japanese Americans in prison camps during World War II, and arguing that the same procedures could be used on Arab-and Muslim-Americans today.

The film is based on the book by William L. White, relating the story of the exploits of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Three, a PT boat unit defending the Philippines against Japanese invasion during the Battle of the Philippines ( 1941 – 42 ) in World War II.

* January 11 – Japanese aircraft drop 324 naval paratroopers as part of a successful assault against Dutch forces defending the Menado Peninsula on Celebes.

* Ota Minoru was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II, and the final commander of the Japanese naval forces defending the Oroku Peninsula during the Battle of Okinawa.

The Japanese modified the tactics they used in their previous three attempts by sending the crack 3rd and 13th Divisions to attack Wanyang mountain toward Liuyang, effectively out-flanking the Chinese troops defending Changsha and cutting off their retreat routes.

This allowed the Imperial Japanese Army ( IJA ) to rapidly advance to the city of Changsha, defeating the infantry defending the city, as well as neutralizing the Chinese artillery on the Yuelu Mountain.

His success continued in 1997 defending his Japanese title and winning the Malaysian Open, the Volvo Masters in Spain, and the Holden Australian Open, beating Greg Norman in a playoff.

* Zuo Baogui ( 左寶貴 ) ( 1837 – 1894 ), Qing Muslim general from Shandong province, was martyred in Pingyang in Korea by Japanese cannonfire in 1894 while defending the city.

However, as they cross the river, the Japanese attack was hampered when they encountered stiff resistance and heavy artillery fire coming from the Russians, now commanded by General Paul von Rennenkampf, resulting in yet another heavy casualties, but after heavy fighting have succeeded in taking the northern bank of the river, causing the Russian defense lines defending the bank to collapse and the far edge of their left flank partially cut off from the rest of the main body of Kuropatkin's army.

The Momoyama family had come from Miyagi Prefecture, in the northeast of the main Japanese island of Honshu, where there are still traces of the mysterious Ainu strain.

The Ainus were a primitive people, already living on the island before the principal ancestors of the Japanese came from Southern Asia.

During the Tokugawa period ( 1600 – 1868 ) the Ainu became increasingly involved in trade with Japanese who controlled the southern portion of the island that is now called Hokkaido.

In addition to this, the land the Ainu lived on was distributed to the Wajin who had decided to move to Hokkaido, who had been encouraged by the Japanese government of the Meiji era to take advantage of the island ’ s abundance of natural resources, and to create and maintain farms in the model of western industrial agriculture.

The island of Hokkaido was known to the Ainu as Ainu Moshir, and was formally annexed by the Japanese at the late date of 1868, partly as a means of preventing the intrusion of the Russians, and partly for imperialist reasons.

Around 2000, an expedition led by the Japanese Daisuke Takahashi, searching for Selkirk's camp on the island ( juan fernandez ), found part of an early eighteenth ( or late seventeenth ) century nautical instrument that almost certainly belonged to Selkirk.

According to what Aleut people told Japanese castaways, otters were decreasing year by year and their share in return of furs they made also were decreasing as Russian ships stopped coming to the island.

In 1945 the island was liberated from the Japanese.

During the combat operations from the atoll against Afghanistan ( 2001 – 2006 ) and Iraq ( 2003 – 2006 ), a number of allied militaries were based on the island including Australian, Japanese and the Republic of Korea.

Home to a diverse population hailing from across the Japanese archipelago the island witnessed the birth of a unique culture with the drum at the center of it all.

* 1991: Niijima Floats, six-foot spheres of intricate color inspired by Japanese glass fishing floats from the island of NiijimaNiijima Chihuly. com from Chihuly's website * 1992: Chandeliers, starting modestly but by the middle of the decade involving a ton of glass orbs and shapes that in some works look like flowers, others like breasts, and still others like snakes Chihuly has also produced a sizable volume of " Irish cylinders ", photo from lakeview-museum. orgwhich are more modest in conception than his blown glass works.

A personal high point was the reception of the Japanese surrender in Singapore when British troops returned to the island to receive the formal surrender of Japanese forces in the region led by General Itagaki Seishiro on 12 September 1945, codenamed Operation Tiderace.

* 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.

During World War II, a group of Japanese soldiers stationed on Lagos Island in South Pacific were unintentionally saved by Godzillasaurus, which attacked and killed a group of American soldiers who had landed on the island in February 1944 as part of the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign.

As American forces land on the island and engage the Japanese forces commanded by Shindo, Godzillasaurus attacks and kills the American soldiers.

Later, the Japanese Prime Minister arrives with Takuya's ex-wife, Masako Tezuka, and offers him to explore an island in the sea with Masako and Marutomo company secretary, Kenji Andoh, and become a free man.

A Japanese fishing vessel is trying to find its way to shore in a horrible storm while near an uninhabited island, when a giant monster appears and attacks the boat.

An example of an artificial island is an island in Osaka Bay off the Japanese island of Honshu, on which Kansai International Airport is located.

There are some language islands in mountain villages or isolated islands such as Hachijō-jima island whose dialect are descended from the Eastern dialect of Old Japanese.

* 1942 – World War II: Allied forces are defeated by the Japanese at the Battle of Malaya and retreat to the island of Singapore.