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| 1550 | Mori, Terumoto |  |
| Osaka Castle Captures Osaka Castle for the forces led by Ieyasu
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| 1560 | Oda, Nobunaga | |
| Owari Defeats Yoshimoto & subjugates Owari Province
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| 1568 | Oda, Nobunaga | |
| Establishes control of Honshu & installs Ashikaga Yashiaka as Shogun
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| 1592 | Hideyoshi, Toyotomi | |
| Pyongyang After capturing Pusan marches North & captures Seoul & Pyongyang
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| Pusan Sends an army across the Straits of Tsushima to capture Pusan
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| 1600 | Ieyasu | |
| Nov Osaka Castle Captures Osaka Castle & becomes ruler of Japan
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| 1879 | Mutsuhito | |
| Ryukyu Islands The Japanese capture the Ryukyu Islands from China
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| 1910 | Katsura | |
| Captures Japan
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| 1910 | Mutsuhito | |
| 6th Sep Japan captures Korea
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| 1910 | Terauchi, Matasake | |
| Commands the capture of Korea
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| 1914 | Taisho | |
| Tsingtao Japan captures the German base at Tsingtao in China
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| Qingdao Japan captures the German concession of Qingdao in China
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| 7th Nov Tsingtao The German colony of Tsingtao in China surrenders to the Japanese
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| 1928 | Hirohito | |
| 3rd May Shandong Japan defeats the Guomindang at Ji'nan & occupies the Shandong Peninsular
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| 1931 | Reijiro, Wakatsuki | |
| 19th Sep Changchun The Japanese Kwantung army captures Changchun, prelude to capturing Manchuria
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| 19th Sep Mukden The Japanese Kwantung army captures Mukden, prelude to capturing Manchuria
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| 1938 | Fumimaro, Konoe | |
| 21st Oct Canton Japanese troops occupy Canton
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| 25th Oct Hankow Hankow, current capital of China, falls to the Japanese
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| Dec Nanking Japan captures Nanking, killing 200,000 civilians
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| 1939 | Hirohito | |
| May Hainan Japan captures the Chinese controlled island of Hainan
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| 1939 | Kiichiro, Hiranuma | |
| 5th July Japan publishes pictures of captured Russian soldiers
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| 1940 | Hirohito | |
| 9 Japan captures Indo-China, with the agreement of the Vichy government
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| 1941 | Ozawa, Jisaburo | |
| Commands the naval forces which capture the Dutch East Indies
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| 1941 | Sakai, Taikaishi | |
| 26th Dec Hong Kong Hong Kong is surrendered to the Japanese
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| 1941 | Sano, Tadayoshi | |
| 25th Dec Hong Kong Leads the principal assault in the Japanese capture of Hong Kong
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| 1941 | Yamashita, Tomoyuki | |
| 12th Feb Singapore The British surrender Singapore to Yamashita
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| 1942 | Homma, Masaharu | |
| Manila Allows the Allies time to withdraw & consolidate behind the Bataan-Corregidor line
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| Manila Captures Manila
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| 6th May Corregidor The Japanese capture Corregidor
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| 1942 | Hosogaya, Boshiro | |
| 6th June Kiska Occuppies the Island of Kiska in the Aleutian Islands
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| 7th June Attu Occuppies the Island of Attu in the Aleutian Islands
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| 1942 | Iida, Shojiro | |
| 7th Mar Rangoon The Japanese capture Rangoon
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| 29th April Laisho The Japanese capture Laisho
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| 1st May Mandalay The Japanese capture Mandalay
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| 1942 | Inouye, Shigeyoshi | |
| 1st May Port Moresby Ordered to capture Port Moresby in the Solomons
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| 3rd May Tulagi Captures the Island of Tulagi in the Coral Sea
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| 3rd May Tulagi Japanese forces occupy the island of Tulagi without opposition
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| 1942 | Nagumo, Chuichi | |
| Provides air cover for the capture of the Dutch East Indies
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| 1942 | Sano, Tadayoshi | |
| Feb Sumatra Leads the principal assault in the Japanese capture of southern Sumatra
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| 1942 | Yamashita, Tomoyuki | |
| 31st Jan The Japanese complete the capture of Malaya
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| 8th Feb Singapore Launches an assault on Singapore Island
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| 15th Feb Singapore Singapore surrenders to Yamashita, 130,000 British are taken prisoner
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| 1942 | Yoshihito | |
| 6th May Corregidor The Japanese complete their capture of the Phillipines
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| 1944 | Hirohito | |
| June Saipan The USA captures Saipan & can bomb Japanese cities
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| 1945 | Kuniaki, Koiso | |
| April Okinawa US troops land on Okinawa Island
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| 1945 | Yoshihito | |
| Feb The US recapture Corregidor
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