List of wars involving Japan

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History of Japan

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Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Results

Yayoi period
Establishment of
Yamatai state
Civil war of
Wa unknown Yayoi unknown Yayoi • Consolidation
(2nd century chiefdoms chiefdoms of chiefdoms
CE) • Himiko made
queen

Heian period
Genpei War Minamoto clan Taira clan Minamoto victory
(1180-1185)
• Death of
Emperor
Antoku
• Establishment
of Kamakura
shogunate

Kamakura period
Kamakura victory
Jōkyū War Kamakura Emperor Go-Toba's • Retired
(1221) shogunate loyal warriors emperors exiled

Japan
Victory
Mongol Mongol Empire
invasions of • Kamakura
• The Mongol
Japan shogunate • Yuan dynasty
Empire's
(1274 and • Imperial • Goryeo
invasions fail.
1281) Court

Imperial victory

Genkō War Emperor Go- • Rise of the

(1331–1333) Daigo's loyal forces Kamakura shogunate Ashikaga
shogunate

Muromachi period
Victory
Ōei Invasion
Tsushima Province Joseon • Joseon
(1419)
withdrawal

Stalemate

Ōnin War Ashikaga Shogunate • Weakening of

(1467–1477) Hosokawa clan the Ashikaga
Yamana clan
Shogunate

Azuchi–Momoyama period
Inconclusive

Seven Year • Tactical

Joseon
War Japan stalemate
(1592–1598) Ming dynasty • Withdrawal of
Japanese
armies;
 Strategic
Joseon/Ming
dynasty victory

Tokugawa victory
Battle of
• Beginning of
Sekigahara Tokugawa clan Toyotomi clan Tokugawa
(1600)
shogunate

Edo period
Satsuma victory

Invasion of • Ryukyu
Ryukyu Satsuma Domain Ryukyu Kingdom Kingdom
(1609) becomes a
vassal state.

Tokugawa victory

• National
Shimabara Tokugawa seclusion policy
Christian peasant and
Rebellion shogunate imposed
ronin rebels
(1637-1638) Dutch Empire • Christianity
driven
underground

Stalemate
Bombardme
• Tactical
nt of
Satsuma Domain British Empire stalemate and
Kagoshima
mitigated
(1863)
British victory

Defeat
British Empire
Shimonoseki Dutch Empire
• Chōshū pays an
Campaign Chōshū Domain French Empire
indemnity of
(1863–1864) United States of
$3,000,000.
America

Chōshū victory

Summer War Tokugawa shogunate • Weakening of

(1866) Chōshū Domain the Tokugawa
Aizu Domain
shogunate

Meiji period
Boshin War Imperial Court Tokugawa Shogunate Imperial victory
(1868–1869)
Tozama: Aizu Domain • End of the
Takamatsu Domain Tokugawa
Satchō Ōuetsu Reppan Dōmei shogunate
Alliance[show] • Meiji
• Jozai Domain Restoration
Other Tozama daimyo: • Nagaoka Domain
• Sendai Domain
• Tosa Domain
• Hiroshima and others...
Domain
• Tsu Domain Tsuruoka Domain
• Saga Domain Kuwana Domain
• Ogaki Domain Matsuyama Domain
• Hirosaki Ogaki Domain
Domain
• Kuroishi
Domain
• Yodo Domain Republic of Ezo

Empire of Japan French Empire

British Empire
Victory
Battle of
• Severe damage
Ganghwa Empire of Japan Joseon inflicted on
(1875)
Joseon defenses

Victory

• Joseon removed
from Qing
vassalage
• Korean
First Sino-
Peninsula
Japanese
Empire of Japan Qing dynasty transferred to
War
Japanese sphere
(1894–1895)
of influence
• Qing dynasty
cedes Taiwan,
Penghu, and the
Liaodong
Peninsula to the
 Empire of Japan

Victory
Japanese
invasion of
Empire of Japan Republic of Formosa • Annexation of
Taiwan
Formosa
(1895)

Victory
Empire of Japan
Russian Empire
• The rebellion
British Empire
was suppressed.
French Republic
Boxer • Signing of the
United States of
Rebellion Qing dynasty Boxer Protocol
America
(1899–1901) • Provisions for
German Empire
foreign troops
Austro-Hungarian
to be stationed
Empire
in Beijing
Kingdom of Italy
Russian Empire Victory
Russo-
Japanese
Empire of Japan • Principality • Treaty of
War
of Montenegro Portsmouth
(1904–1905)

Taishō period
Victory

• End of the
Empire of Japan German
French Republic Empire, Austro-
British Empire Hungarian
Russian Empire Empire,
Kingdom of Italy German Empire Ottoman
United States of Empire, and
America Austro-Hungarian Russian Empire
Kingdom of Serbia Empire • Formation of
Republic of China Ottoman Empire new countries
World War I
Kingdom of Kingdom of in Europe and
(1914–1918)
Belgium Bulgaria the Middle East
Kingdom of Emirate of Jabal • Transfer of
Greece Shammar German
Kingdom of Dervish State colonies and
Romania Sultanate of Darfur regions of the
Portuguese former Ottoman
Republic Empire to other
United States of powers
Brazil • Creation of the
League of
Nations
 Empire of Japan
United States of
America
British Empire Russian Soviet
Withdrawal
French Republic Federative Socialist
Siberian
Kingdom of Italy Republic
Intervention • Bolsheviks
Republic of Poland Far Eastern Republic
(1918–1922) regain Siberia
Republic of China Mongolian People's
Czechoslovak Party
Republic
Mongolia
White movement
Shōwa period
Victory

Japanese • Tanggu Truce

invasion of • Establishment
Empire of Japan Republic of China
Manchuria of the Japanese
(1931–1932) puppet state
Manchukuo

Defeat

• Merged into
World War II
• Chinese victory
as part of the
Allied victory
in the Pacific
War
• Surrender of all
Japanese forces
in mainland
Second Sino- China
Japanese (excluding
Empire of Japan Republic of China
War Manchuria),
(1937–1941) Formosa and
French
Indochina north
of 16° north to
the Republic of
China
• China becomes
a permanent
member of the
United Nations
Security
Council
• Resumption of
 Chinese Civil
War

Defeat

• Fall of the
Empire of
Japan, German
Reich, and
Kingdom of
Republic of China Italy
United States of • Allied
America occupation of
British Empire Japan and
Union of Soviet Germany
Socialist Republics • Continuation of
Empire of Japan French Republic Chinese Civil
German Reich Viet Minh War
Kingdom of Italy Republic of Poland • Substantial
Kingdom of Democratic Federal weakening of
Thailand Yugoslavia European
Republic of Kingdom of Greece colonial
World War Finland Kingdom of powers, gradual
II Kingdom of Denmark decolonization
(1941–1945) Hungary Kingdom of Norway of Asia
Kingdom of Netherlands (including the
Romania Kingdom of Indonesian
Kingdom of Belgium National
Bulgaria Grand Duchy of Revolution and
Slovak Republic Luxembourg the First
Kingdom of Iraq Czechoslovak Indochina War)
Republic • Creation of the
United States of United Nations
Brazil • Emergence of
United Mexican the United
States States of
Ethiopian Empire America and
the Union of
Soviet Socialist
Republics as
superpowers
• Beginning of
the Cold War

Withdrawal
Operation Empire of Japan
• Start of the First
Masterdom British Empire Viet Minh
Indochina War,
(1945–1946) French Republic
lasting until the
Geneva
 Conference of
1954

Heisei period
Victory

• Invasion and
occupation of
the Republic of
Iraq
• Defeat of Ba'ath
Party
government and
execution of
Saddam
Hussein
• Iraqi
insurgency,
emergence of
Coalition al-Qaeda in
forces[show] Iraq, and civil
war
• United Iraqi Regional • Subsequent
States Branch[show] depletion of
• United Iraqi
Kingdom Sunni insurgency,
Iraq War • Australia insurgents[show] improvements
(2003–2011) • Poland in public
Shia insurgents[show] security
Peshmerga • Establishment
of democratic
Ba'athist Iraq elections and
formation of
New Iraqi new Shia led
government government
• U.S.–Iraq Status
of Forces
Agreement
• Withdrawal of
U.S. troops
from the
Republic of Iraq
• Rise of Iraqi
insurgency after
U.S. withdrawal
and spillover
with Syrian
Civil War
• Resurgence of
al-Qaeda in Iraq
and Syria