List of wars involving Japan

• Kamu-yamato Iware-biko no Mikoto becomes the legendary first Emperor (Emperor Jimmu)
• Mythical foundation of Japan

• Consolidation of chiefdoms
• Himiko made queen

Goguryeo
Silla

• Buddhism spreads in Japan

• Mishihase were possible recent settlers from Siberia.
• Yamato and Emishi force defeat the Mishihase (Nihon Shoki)
• Location uncertain, possibly Hokkaido

• Annexation of Baekje by Unified Silla
• Baekje, the traditional ally of Yamato, ceases to exist, Yamato loses influence in Korea

• Prince Ōama (Emperor Tenmu) ascends to the throne and centralizes power

• Sakanoue no Tamuramaro becomes shōgun
• Death of Aterui, most Emishi of Tōhoku enter Imperial rule

• Establishment of Minamoto-Taira rivalry

• Minamoto leaders banished

Minamoto clan (Yoritomo)

• Miura clan
• Takeda clan
• Hōjō clan
• Chiba clan

Minamoto clan (Yoshinaka)

• Establishment of the Kamakura shogunate

• Kamakura shogunate gains control of Tōhoku

• Fall of the Kamakura Shogunate
• Imperial rule restored

 └ Northern Court

└ Nitta clan

Southern Court (1336–1392)

• Imperial rule under Emperor Go-Daigo overthrown (1336)

• Establishment of the Ashikaga Shogunate and Northern Court
• Southern Court disestablished (1392)

• Sō clan

• Withdrawal of Korean armies from Tsushima^[7][8]
• 24 years after the invasion, the Treaty of Gyehae was signed and the number of wokou pirates gradually decreased^[9]

• Hosokawa clan gains control of the shogunate
• Ashikaga Yoshihisa assumes the post of shōgun
• Most of Kyoto destroyed
• Disintegration of the Ashikaga Shogunate, beginning of the Sengoku period^[10]

Oda clan
Toyotomi clan
Tokugawa clan
Takeda clan
Mōri clan
Uesugi clan
Hojo clan
Shimazu clan
Date clan
and others

• After more than a century of near constant civil war and unrest, Oda Nobunaga begins the unification of Japan
• Following Nobunaga's death, his successor Toyotomi Hideyoshi completes the unification (1590) and rules until his death in 1598
• Tokugawa Ieyasu defeats rival factions and establishes the Tokugawa shogunate (1603)

• Oda clan

• Ikkō-ikki Buddhist leagues mostly destroyed by the Oda clan in the Ishiyama Hongan-ji campaign

• New Spain
  • Spanish Philippines
  • Indian auxiliaries from Mexico (mostly Tlaxcalans)^[11]

• Toyotomi clan

• Withdrawal of Japanese armies from the Korean peninsula

• Forces loyal to Tokugawa Ieyasu, clans of Eastern Japan

• Forces loyal to Ishida Mitsunari, many clans from Western Japan

• Tokugawa clan gains nominal control of all Japan

• The Ryukyu Kingdom becomes a Japanese vassal state.

• Hizen-Arima clan

• The expulsion of João Rodrigues Tçuzu and the loss of confidence in the Jesuits and Portugal by the Tokugawa shogunate.

• Destruction of the Toyotomi Clan

• National seclusion policy imposed
• Christianity driven underground

• Kagoshima is bombarded by British Ships
• Satsuma makes payment of £25,000 to the British^[12]

Defeat

• Chōshū pays an indemnity of $3,000,000.

• Choshu Victory
• Weakening of the Tokugawa shogunate

1869
Empire of Japan

• Jozai Domain
• Nagaoka Domain
• Sendai Domain
• Morioka Domain
• Kuwana Domain

1869
Republic of Ezo

• End of the shogunate
• Restoration of imperial rule

• Occupation of Taiwan by Japan

• Severe damage inflicted on Korean defenses

• Samurai rebellions suppressed, effective end of the samurai as a privileged class
• Conscription system established in Japan

• Korea removed from Chinese suzerainty
• Treaty of Shimonoseki

• Annexation of Formosa

Mutual Defence Pact of Southeast China (after 1900)

• The rebellion was suppressed.
• Signing of the Boxer Protocol
• Provisions for foreign troops to be stationed in Beijing

• Treaty of Portsmouth
• Russia cedes Guandong Leased Territory and South Sakhalin to Japan

• Imperial Korean Armed Forces was disbanded.

• Marked a new phase in armed Taiwanese resistance.

• Truku Tribe were scattered into many different locations.

• The colonial government subsequently took steps to improve colonial administration in southern Taiwan.

 Japan

 France

•  India
• Canada
• Australia
•  New Zealand
•  South Africa

 Russia
 Italy
 United States
 Serbia
 Montenegro
 Belgium
 Romania
 Portugal
Hejaz
China
 Greece
 Brazil

• End of the German Empire, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Ottoman Empire, and Russian Empire
• Formation of new countries in Europe and the Middle East
• Transfer of German colonies and regions of the former Ottoman Empire to other powers
• Creation of the League of Nations

• Temporary military occupation of Constantinople after World War I by the United Kingdom, France, Italy and Greece.

• Occupation of Jinan by Japanese Army

• Seediq land was given to the Truku (Taroko) and Toda by the Japanese after the incident.

• Establishment of the Japanese puppet state Manchukuo

• Chinese fighting against the Japanese invaders were mostly defeated.

• China and Japan signed the Shanghai Ceasefire Agreement
• Shanghai demilitarized

• Manchukuo
• Korea

• Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact

• Manchukuo

• Tanggu Truce

 Japan

Reorganized National Government
 Manchukuo
 Mengjiang
Provisional Government
Reformed Government
East Hebei

 China

 United States
 Soviet Union
 Britain

• Merged into World War II
• Chinese victory as part of the Allied victory in the Pacific War
• Surrender of all Japanese forces in mainland China (excluding Manchuria), Formosa and French Indochina north of 16° north to China
• China becomes a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council.
• Resumption of the Chinese Civil War

 Vichy France

• French Indochina

• Japanese occupation of Northern French Indochina

• Fall of the Empire of Japan, Nazi Germany, and Kingdom of Italy
• Allied occupation of Japan and Germany
• Continuation of the Chinese Civil War
• Substantial weakening of European colonial powers, gradual decolonization of Asia (including the Indonesian National Revolution and the First Indochina War)
• Creation of the United Nations
• Emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as superpowers
• Beginning of the Cold War

•  Philippines

United Kingdom
Australia
New Zealand
Netherlands

• Dutch East Indies

Allied victory

• End of World War II
• Fall of the Empire of Japan
• Continuation of the Chinese Civil War
• Substantial weakening of European colonial powers and the gradual decolonization of Asia
  • First Indochina War
  • Indonesian National Revolution
  • Korean War
• 1951 Treaty of San Francisco
• 1956 Soviet–Japanese Joint Declaration

Allied occupation of Japan (1945–1952)

• Removal of Japanese troops occupying parts of China and the retrocession of Taiwan to China
• Liberation of Korea and Manchuria from Japanese rule, followed by the division of Korea
• Cession of Japanese-held islands in the Central Pacific Ocean to the United Nations
• Seizure and annexation of South Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands by the Soviet Union
• The Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands is created by the United Nations and placed under the authority of the United States. The UN Security Council ended the vast trusteeship in stages, from 1986 to 1994, with the US gaining the territory of the Northern Mariana Islands.

 Japan

• Manchukuo
• Mengjiang

Allied victory

• End of World War II
• Fall of Manchukuo and Mengjiang
• Partition of the Korean Peninsula at the 38th parallel.
• Most of Manchuria and Inner Mongolia are returned to the Nationalist government of China by a 1945 bilateral agreement
• Parts of Manchuria and Inner Mongolia are secretly handed over to the Chinese Communist Party guerrillas after the Soviet withdrawal in 1946.

 Japan

 Netherlands

•  Dutch East Indies
•  Dutch Caribbean

 United Kingdom

•  India

 Australia

• Netherlands accepts the Independence of Indonesia
• Restoration of the reputation of the remnants of the Japanese army

• Restoration of French rule in Indochina
• Start of the First Indochina War, lasting until the Geneva Conference of 1954

• North Korean naval trawler sunk

Coalition forces

•  Japan
•  South Korea
•  Spain
•  Denmark
•  Romania
•  El Salvador
•  Estonia
•  Bulgaria
•  Moldova
•  Albania
•  Ukraine
•  Czech Republic
•  Tonga
•  Azerbaijan
•  Singapore
•  Bosnia and Herzegovina
•  Macedonia
•  Latvia
•  Kazakhstan
•  Armenia
•  Mongolia
•  Georgia
•  Slovakia
•  Lithuania
•  Italy
•  Norway
•  Hungary
•  Netherlands
•  Portugal
•  New Zealand
•  Thailand
•  Philippines
•  Honduras
•  Dominican Republic
•  Nicaragua
•  Iceland

•  United States
•  United Kingdom
•  Australia
•  Poland

Peshmerga

New Iraqi government

 Iraq

• Invasion and occupation of Iraq
• Defeat of Ba'ath Party-led regime and execution of Saddam Hussein
• Iraqi insurgency, emergence of al-Qaeda in Iraq, and civil war
• Subsequent depletion of Iraqi insurgency, improvements in public security
• Establishment of democratic elections and formation of new Shia led government
• U.S.–Iraq Status of Forces Agreement
• Withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq
• Rise of Iraqi insurgency after U.S. withdrawal and spillover with the Syrian Civil War
• Resurgence of al-Qaeda in Iraq and Syria

• Number of Somali pirate attacks have been reduced dramatically.