Japan
Tokyo
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- …1939Japan (Hinomaru)
- simplified version (without arms)
Course of events
- 23 August 1939
Other belligerents
Fighting China since the Marco Polo Bridge incident of 7 July 1937 (Second Sino-Japanese War); not yet at war with the Western powers.
- 27 September 1940
Axis powers & allies
Signed the Tripartite Pact with Germany and Italy in Berlin on 27 Sept 1940; attacked Pearl Harbor on 7 Dec 1941.
Events involving this country
- 7 Dec 1941Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
- 8 Dec 1941Battle of Hong Kong
- 7 Jan 1942Battle of Bataan
- 8 Feb 1942Fall of Singapore
- 18 Apr 1942Doolittle Raid
- 4 May 1942Battle of the Coral Sea
- 4 Jun 1942Battle of Midway
- 21 Jul 1942Kokoda Track campaign
- 7 Aug 1942Guadalcanal campaign
- 20 Nov 1943Battle of Tarawa
- 8 Mar 1944Battle of Imphal
- 15 Jun 1944Battle of Saipan
- 23 Oct 1944Battle of Leyte Gulf
- 19 Feb 1945Battle of Iwo Jima
- 9 Mar 1945Bombing of Tokyo, 9–10 March 1945 (Operation Meetinghouse)
- 1 Apr 1945Battle of Okinawa
- 6 Aug 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 9 Aug 1945Soviet invasion of Manchuria
- 15 Aug 1945Surrender of Japan
Data completeness: borders c. 1938, status at country level; occupation zones, annexations and front lines as approximate snapshots. Units and offensives: selected, incomplete sets; archive: only items with a confirmed licence, still being added.