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

U. S. attacks started in mid-1943, and caused half the Japanese garrison of 5, 100 people in the atoll Mili to die from hunger by August 1945.

* 1943 – World War II: Battle of the Komandorski Islands – In the Aleutian Islands the battle begins when United States Navy forces intercept Japanese attempting to reinforce a garrison at Kiska.

Australian troops at Milne Bay, Papua. The Australian garrison was the first to inflict defeat on the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II at the Battle of Milne Bay of Aug – Sep 1942.

* March 26 – WWII – Battle of the Komandorski Islands: In the Aleutian Islands, the battle begins when United States Navy forces intercept Japanese troops attempting to reinforce a garrison at Kiska.

* December 23 – WWII: A second Japanese landing attempt on Wake Island is successful, and the American garrison surrenders after a full night and morning of fighting.

* March 28 – Japanese forces withdraw from Shandong province to their garrison in Tsingtao bringing an end to the Jinan Incident.

In subsequent years and during World War II the Japanese garrison strength was composed of about 2, 000 men of the IJN under Captain Jun Naito and 5, 984 IJA men under Lieutenant General Masao Watanabe.

* In 1945 when the Japanese colonel in charge of the Hue garrison told Bảo Đại that he had ( in line with the orders of the Allied commander ) taken measures ensuring the security of the Imperial Palace and those within it against a possible Việt Minh coup, Bảo Đại dismissed the protection declaring " I do not wish a foreign army to spill the blood of my people.

The film tells the story of the United States military garrison on Wake Island and the onslaught by the Japanese following the attack on Pearl Harbor.

An excellent example of the role of women in Japanese society and martial culture is Itagaki, who, famous for her naginata skills, led the garrison of 3, 000 warriors stationed at Toeizakayama castle.

Even before the beginning of World War II, there was a garrison of the Imperial Japanese Navy at the southern part of Iwo Jima.

After the start of World War II the Japanese garrison stationed on the island consisted of the 742 man Minami-Tori-Shima Guard Unit, under the command of Rear-Admiral Masata Matsubara and the 2, 005 man 12th Independent Mixed Regiment, under the command of Colonel Yoshiichi Sakata.

Though isolated, the Japanese were able to resupply the garrison by submarine, using a channel cut through the reef on the northwest side of the island.

Japanese increased their garrison in the north Kurils from 8, 000 in 1943 to 41, 000 in 1944 and maintained more than 400 aircraft in Kurils and Hokkaidō area in anticipation that the Americans might invade from Alaska.

Its garrison then broke through the Japanese lines thanks to an error on the part of the Japanese commander.

The Wake Island Rail was hunted to extinction by the starving Japanese garrison after the island was cut off from supply during World War II.

The Japanese suspected that they might meet resistance when they attempted to occupy Taiwan, and their invasion of Taiwan, hastily launched in late May 1895 in response to the proclamation of the Republic of Formosa, was preceded by an attack on Qing forces on Penghu in March 1895, in which the Japanese defeated the Chinese garrison of the islands and occupied Makung.

In November Halsey's willingness to place at risk his command's two fast battleships in the confined waters around Guadalcanal for a night engagement paid off with the U. S. Navy winning the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, the decisive naval engagement of the Guadalcanal campaign that doomed the Japanese garrison and wrested control from the Japanese.

On February 8, 1945, when Rodolfo was about to declare the independence of the province after he and his men killed every Japanese Imperial Army and burned every Japanese garrison in Catanduanes, one of his men approached him and said that there were Japanese reinforcements on board 2 vessels approaching the island.

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

Yasuaki Shindo ( Yoshio Tsuchiya ), who commanded the Japanese on Lagos, is now a wealthy businessman who denies the dinosaur's existence.

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

* 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

* October 26 – Battle of Myeongnyang: The Koreans, commanded by Yi Sunsin, are victorious over the Japanese.

That night, as the transports unloaded, two groups of screening Allied cruisers and destroyers, under the command of British Rear Admiral Victor Crutchley, were surprised and defeated by a Japanese force of seven cruisers and one destroyer from the 8th Fleet based at Rabaul and Kavieng and commanded by Japanese Vice Admiral Gunichi Mikawa.

On September 21, the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service, commanded by Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni, began aerial bombardment of Nanking.

In October, the Shanghai Expeditionary Force ( SEF ) was reinforced by the Japanese 10th Army commanded by Lieutenant General Heisuke Yanagawa.

LeMay commanded subsequent B-29 Superfortress combat operations against Japan, including massive incendiary attacks on 64 Japanese cities.

* Claude C. Bloch – Admiral who commanded the local Naval District at Pearl Harbor at the time of the Japanese attack during World War II ( born in Woodbury )

* Claude C. Bloch-Admiral who commanded the local Naval District at Pearl Harbor at the time of the Japanese attack during World War II

From that site he launched two successive attacks against Manila, commanded either by Limahong himself or the Japanese Sioco.

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

On March 1, 1942, the Battle of Sunda Strait-part of the larger Battle of the Java Sea-took place when the Allied cruisers HMAS Perth and USS Houston encountered a Japanese amphibious landing force near Bantam commanded by Rear Admiral Kenzaburo Hara, which included a light cruiser and eleven destroyers, four heavy cruisers and a light aircraft carrier.

British, Canadian, Indian armies and the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Forces resisted the Japanese invasion commanded by Sakai Takashi, which began eight hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

As a Rear Admiral, Nagumo commanded the 8th Cruiser Division to support Imperial Japanese Army movements in China from the Yellow Sea.

Sympathetic to the white colonial French occupation of Laos, he commanded a force of 15, 000 that fought Japanese troops and the Lao Issara in the south of Laos.

Karel Willem Frederik Marie Doorman ( April 23, 1889 – February 28, 1942 ) was a Dutch Rear Admiral who commanded ABDACOM Naval forces, a hastily-organized multinational naval force formed to defend the East Indies against an overwhelming Imperial Japanese attack.

These ships were basically divided into three groups: the " Main Body " contained the Japanese carriers — and, light carrier, and a screening force of one heavy cruiser and eight destroyers, commanded by Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo in Shōkaku ; the " Vanguard Force " consisted of two battleships, three heavy cruisers, one light cruiser, and three destroyers, commanded by Rear Admiral Hiroaki Abe ; the " Advanced Force " contained five heavy cruisers, one light cruiser, six destroyers, and the seaplane carrier, commanded by Vice Admiral Nobutake Kondō.

The Japanese fleet, commanded by Vice-Admiral Jisaburo Ozawa, consisted of five large carriers

The Japanese military authorities commanded Toyota to make a similar vehicle but to not model the appearance on the American Jeep.

After the success of the Imperial Japanese Navy at the Battle of Chemulpo Bay on 9 February 1904, the way was clear for the Imperial Japanese Army to deploy the 2nd, the 12th, and the Guards Divisions of the Japanese 1st Army, commanded by Major-General Baron Tamemoto Kuroki, into Korea.