* 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: Japanese forces begin an assault on the United States and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula.

* 1944 – World War II: American forces defeat the last Japanese troops on Guam.

Image: Abatis. jpg | Abatis improvised by Japanese troops during World War II

The Australian War Crimes Section of the Tokyo tribunal, led by prosecutor William Webb ( the future Judge-in-Chief ), collected numerous written reports and testimonies that documented Japanese soldiers ' acts of cannibalism among their own troops, on enemy dead, and on Allied prisoners of war in many parts of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.

Consisting of British, Japanese, Russian, Italian, German, French, US and Austrian troops, the alliance defeated the Boxers and demanded further concessions from the Qing government.

When Chiang was defeated by CPC forces in mainland China in 1949, he retreated to Taiwan with his government and his most disciplined troops, along with most of the KMT leadership and a large number of their supporters ; Chiang Kai-shek had taken effective control of Taiwan at the end of WWII as part of the overall Japanese surrender, when Japanese troops in Taiwan surrendered to Republic of China troops.

After the war, 200, 000 Chinese troops under General Lu Han were sent by Chiang Kai-shek to northern Indochina ( north of the 16th parallel ) to accept the surrender of Japanese occupying forces there, and remained in Indochina until 1946, when the French returned.

Even so, armed Japanese troops remained in China well into 1947, with some noncommissioned officers finding their way into the Nationalist officer corps .< ref > Gillin, Donald G. and Etter, Charles.

In the 1593 Siege of Pyongyang, 40, 000 Ming troops deployed a variety of cannon to bombard an equally large Japanese army.

* 1937 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanjing – Japanese troops under the command of Lt. Gen. Asaka Yasuhiko launch an assault on the Chinese city of Nanjing.

An attempt was therefore made to send more troops from Tientsin, where British ships had been joined by French, German, Russian, Austrian, Italian and Japanese.

Japanese troops begin carrying out several weeks of raping and killing of civilians and suspected Chinese resistance after the fall of Nanjing.

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.

Feudalism usually emerged as a result of the decentralization of an empire: especially in the Japanese and Carolingian ( European ) empires which both lacked the bureaucratic infrastructure necessary to support cavalry without the ability to allocate land to these mounted troops.

As a result of this loaning, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and Vietnamese share a corpus of linguistic terms describing modern terminology, paralleling the similar corpus of terms built from Greco-Latin and shared among European languages.

* 1922 – Japanese aircraft carrier Hōshō becomes the first purpose built aircraft carrier to be commissioned in the world.

The Japanese government in 1974 started feasibility study under grant aid to develop and built Television in Afghanistan.

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

The main airport was built by the Japanese during World War II.

In a specially built glasshouse he cultivated the Japanese plants to endure the Dutch climate.

Unlike traditional Japanese raku, which is mainly hand built bowls of modest design, western raku tends to be vibrant in color, and comes in many shapes and sizes.

A city wall was built for the first time in 1554 to protect the town from raids by Japanese pirates.

Moreover, many Japanese businesses built outside Japan have had ceremonies performed by a Shinto priest, with occasionally an annual visitation by the priest to re-purify.

* Heian Jingu Shrine — Heian Shrine in Kyoto City was built in 1895 in commemoration of the 1100th anniversary of the move of Japanese Capital from Nara to Kyoto in 794.

It has a clearance over the canal and was built with assistance from the Japanese government and by PentaOcean Construction.

The Missouri, the ship on which the Japanese formally surrendered, was built there, as was the Maine, whose sinking off Havana led to the start of the Spanish-American War.

As Mitsubishi built a broadly based conglomerate, it played a central role in the modernization of Japanese industry.

Around the curved long sword the bushi built a mystique of fantastic dimensions, one that still influences Japanese culture today.

The Chinese phonetic components built into these kanji do not work when they are pronounced in Japanese, and there is not a one-to-one relationship between them and the Japanese words they represent.

Krupp's Director of design, Professor Fritz Rausenberger, designed the Big Bertha, while the Japanese naval guns were built by the British ( as were their battleships ).

According to reports, Japanese troops torched newly built government buildings as well as the homes of many civilians.

During World War II the U. S. Navy had built up a team of engineers to build codebreaking machinery for both Japanese and German electro-mechanical ciphers.

The Company is a contractor for the Japanese Ministry of Defense and has built aircraft such as the C-1 transport aircraft, T-4 intermediate jet trainer, and the P-3C antisubmarine warfare patrol airplane.

In 1982 Seiko produced a watch with a small television screen built in, and Casio produced a digital watch with a thermometer as well as another that could translate 1, 500 Japanese words into English.

The same storm also trapped an experienced Japanese mountaineer when the weather unexpectedly closed in on him, but he built a snow cave and sheltered in it until he was rescued days later.

* 1937, German whale factory ship Unitas for Jürgens-Van den Bergh company ( whale hunting vessels were built by Bremer Vulkan ); as Japanese Nissan Maru II scrapped in Taiwan 1987

French remote sensing satellite SPOT-6 ( built by EADS Astrium ) and Japanese microsat PROITERES ( built by Osaka Institute of Technology ) placed in orbit.

The final cavalry charge by British Empire forces occurred on 21 March 1942 when a 60 strong patrol of the Burma Frontier Force encountered Japanese infantry near Toungoo airfield in central Burma.

* August 6 – WWII – Battle of Vella Gulf: Americans defeat a Japanese convoy off Kolombangara, as the U. S. Army drives the Japanese out of Munda airfield on New Georgia.

The Allies overwhelmed the outnumbered Japanese defenders, who had occupied the islands since May 1942, and captured Tulagi and Florida, as well as an airfield ( later named Henderson Field ) that was under construction on Guadalcanal.

Allied concern grew large when, in early July 1942, the IJN began constructing a large airfield at Lunga Point on nearby Guadalcanal — from such a base Japanese long range bombers would threaten the sea lines of communication from the West Coast of the Americas to the populous East Coast of Australia.

The airfield at Lunga Point on Guadalcanal under construction by Japanese and conscripted Korean laborers in July 1942.

After Allied reconnaissance discovered the Japanese airfield construction efforts on Guadalcanal, its capture was added to the plan and the Santa Cruz operation was ( eventually ) dropped.

The Japanese naval construction units and combat troops, under the command of Captain Kanae Monzen, panicked by the warship bombardment and aerial bombing, had abandoned the airfield area and fled about west to the Matanikau River and Point Cruz area, leaving behind food, supplies, intact construction equipment and vehicles, and 13 dead.

Work began on the airfield immediately, mainly using captured Japanese equipment.

Training at the airfield came to a halt on 14 August 1945, when the Japanese unconditionally surrendered.

The Japanese attacked the airfield to prevent the numerous planes there from getting airborne and engaging them.

When an allied reconnaissance mission spotted construction of a Japanese airfield at Lunga Point on the north coast of Guadalcanal, the situation became critical.

This new Japanese airfield represented a threat to Australia itself, and so the United States as a matter of urgency, despite not being adequately prepared, conducted the first amphibious landing of the war.

Immediately after landing on the island, the allies began finishing the airfield begun by the Japanese.

They defended the airfield and threatened any Japanese ships that ventured into the vicinity during daylight hours.

However, at night, Japanese naval forces were able to shell the airfield and deliver troops with supplies, retiring before daylight.

On March 1945, American forces seized an airfield in Dipolog giving an opportunity for the liberation of the whole province, before the American liberating troops was aided and helpful by the local Philippine Commonwealth military forces and the Zamboangueño guerrilla resistance groups in Zamboanga province against the Japanese.

The last of the 24th Pursuit Group's aircraft were captured or destroyed by enemy forces on or about May 1, 1942 when the airfield was abandoned by the United States, leaving its facilities to the Japanese invaders.

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

In a firefight on the night of October 24 – 25, 1942, lasting about three hours, 1 / 7 sustained 70 casualties ; the Japanese force suffered over 1, 400 killed in action, and the battalion held the airfield.

Two abandoned airfields from World War II are nearby, Central Field to the south of the current air base, and an unfinished Japanese airfield to the north of the base, which was improved after the US invasion of the island.

Here, instead of landing near and taking the Japanese airfields against the bulk of the Japanese defenders, Halsey landed his invasion force of 14, 000 marines in Empress Augusta Bay, about halfway up the west coast of Bouganville and had the Seabees clear and build their own airfield.

In November 1942, the Japanese built an airfield on Engebi Island ; because they used it only for refueling planes between Truk and islands to the east, no flying personnel were stationed there and the island had only token defenses.