List of Japanese battles

The following is a list of Japanese battles, organised by date.

Ancient/Classical Japan

Jōmon Period

• Jimmu's Eastern Expedition (c. 7th century BCE)

Yayoi Period

• Takehaniyasuhiko Rebellion (c. 1st century BCE) ja:武埴安彦命
• Expedition of Yamato Takeru (c. late 1st century-early 2nd century) ja:ヤマトタケル
• Civil war of Wa (2nd century AD)
• Expedition of Empress Jingū (c. 3rd century) ja:三韓征伐

Kofun period

• Goguryeo–Yamato War (391–404)
• Kibi Clan Rebellion (463)
  • Prince Hoshikawa Rebellion (479)
• Iwai Rebellion (527–528)
• Musashi no Kuni no Miyatsuko Rebellion (534) ja:武蔵国造の乱

Asuka period

• Battle of Shigisan (587)
• Isshi Incident (645)　
• North expedition of Abe no Hirafu (658–660) ja:阿倍比羅夫
• Battle of Baekgang (663)
• Jinshin War (672)　

Nara Period

• Hayato Rebellion (720–721)
• Fujiwara no Hirotsugu Rebellion (740)
• Fujiwara no Nakamaro Rebellion (764)
• Thirty-Eight Year War (774–811)
  • Hōki Rebellion (780–781?) ja:宝亀の乱
  • Battle of Subuse (788) ja:巣伏の戦い

Heian Period

• Thirty-Eight Year War (774–811)
  • Conquest by Sakanoue no Tamuramaro (801)
  • Last Conquest by Funya no Watamaro (811)
• Gangyō Rebellion (878) ja:元慶の乱
• Kanbyō Silla pirate invasion (893) ja:新羅の入寇
• Jōhei-Tengyō Rebellion (936–941) ja:承平天慶の乱
• Fujiwara no Koresuke Rebellion (947) ja:藤原是助の乱
• Toi invasion (1019)
• Taira no Tadatsune Rebellion (1028–1030) ja:平忠常の乱
• Zenkunen War (1051–1062)
  • Battle of Onikiribe (1051)
  • Battle of Kinomi (1057)
  • Siege of Komatsu (1062)
  • Siege of Koromogawa (1062)
  • Siege of Kuriyagawa　(1062)
• Enkyū Battle of Ezo (1070) ja:延久蝦夷合戦
• Gosannen War (1083–1087)
  • Siege of Kanezawa (1087)
• Minamoto no Yoshichika Rebellion (1107–1108) ja:源義親の乱
• Hōgen Rebellion (1156)
• Heiji Rebellion (1160)

Genpei War (1179–1185)

• Battle of Ishibashiyama (1180)　
• Battle of Fujigawa (1180)
• Battle of Sunomata-gawa (1181)
• Battle of Kurikara (1183)
• Siege of Hōjūjidono (1184)　
• Battle of Uji (1184)
• Battle of Awazu (1184)
• Battle of Ichi-no-Tani (1184)
• Battle of Kojima (1184)
• Battle of Yashima (1185)
• Battle of Dan-no-ura (1185)

Feudal Japan

Kamakura period

• Battle of Ōshū (1189)
• Kennin Rebellion (1201)
• Hatakeyama Shigetada Rebellion(1205)ja:畠山忠重の乱
• Wada Rebellion (1213) ja:和田合戦
• Miura Rebellion (1247) ja:宝治合戦
• Jōkyū War (1221)
  • Battle of Uji (1221)
• February Incident(1272) ja:二月騒動

Mongol Invasions of Japan (1274 & 1281)

• Battle of Bun'ei (1274)　
• Battle of Kōan (1281)

Genkō War (1331–1333)

• Siege of Kasagi(1331)
• Siege of Akasaka (1331)
• Siege of Chihaya (1333)
• Battle of Bubaigawara (1333)　
• Siege of Kamakura (1333)

Muromachi period

• Nakasendai Rebellion (1335) ja:中先代の乱
• Civil war of the Kenmu Restoration (1335–1336)

Nanboku-chō period (1336–1392)

• Battle of Tatarahama (1336)
• Battle of Minatogawa (1336)
• Siege of Kanegasaki (1337)
• Battle of Ishizu (1338) ja:石津の戦い
• Battle of Shijō Nawate (1348)
• Kannō Incident (1350–1352) ja:観応の擾乱
  • Battle of Uchidehama (1351) ja:打出浜の戦い
• Battle of Chikugogawa (1359) ja:筑後川の戦い
• Ōei Rebellion (1399) ja:応永の乱
• Rebellion of Uesugi Zenshū (1416–1417) ja:上杉禅秀の乱
• Eikyō Rebellion (1438–1439) ja:永享の乱
• Siege of Yūki (1440) ja:結城合戦
• Kakitsu Incident (1441) ja:嘉吉の乱
• Koshamain's Revolt (1456–1457) ja:コシャマインの戦い

Kyōtoku Incident (1455–1482)

• Battle of Bubaigawara (1455) ja:分倍河原の戦い(室町時代)
• Battle of Irako (1459–1477) ja:五十子の戦い
• Nagao Kageharu Rebellion (1476–1480) ja:長尾景春の乱
  • Battle of Egota-Numabukurohara (1477) ja:江古田・沼袋原の戦い

Sengoku period

• Ōnin War (1467–1477)
  • Battle of Goryō (1467) ja:御霊合戦
  • Battle of Higashi Iwakura (1467) ja:東岩倉の戦い
  • Battle of Shokokuji (1467) ja:相国寺の戦い
  • Battle of Kamigyo (1467) ja:上京の戦い
  • Battle of Ichijo Omiya (1467)
• Yamashiro Rebellion (1485–1493)
• Kaga Rebellion (1487–1488)
• Chōkyō Incident (1487–1505)　ja:長享の乱
  • Battle of Tachigawara (1504) ja:立河原の戦い
• Battle of Kuzuryūgawa (1506)
• Battle of Nyoigatake (1509) ja:如意ケ嶽の戦い
• Battle of Nagamorihara (1510) ja:長森原の戦い
• Siege of Gongenyama (1510)
• Siege of Arai (1516)
• Battle of Arita-Nakaide (1517) ja:有田中井手の戦い
• Battle of Iidagawara (1521)
• Ningbo Turmoil (1523) ja:寧波の乱
• Siege of Edo (1524)
• Siege of Kamakura (1526)
• Battle of Nashinokidaira (1526)
• Battle of Katsuragawa (1527) ja:桂川原の戦い
• Battle of Ozawahara (1530)
• Battle of Tatenawate (1530) ja:田手畷の戦い
• Battle of Shiokawa no gawara (1531)
• Kyoroku War (1531) ja:享禄の錯乱
• Battle of Daimotsu (1531) ja:大物崩れ
• Tenbun War (1532–1535) ja:天文の錯乱
  • Siege of Iimoriyama (1532) ja:飯盛山城の戦い
  • Siege of Sakai (1532)
  • Siege of Yamashina Honganji (1532) ja:山科本願寺の戦い
• Battle of Idano (1535)
• Battle of Un no Kuchi (1536)　
• Battle of Sanbuichigahara (1536)
• Hanakura Incident (1536) ja:花倉の乱
• Battle of Sendanno (1536)
• Siege of Musashi-Matsuyama (1537)　
• Battle of Kōnodai (1538)
• Battle of Ichirai (1539)
• Siege of Koriyama (1540–1541)
• Battle of Sezawa (1542)
• Siege of Uehara (1542)
• Siege of Kuwabara (1542)
• Siege of Fukuyo (1542)
• Battle of Ankokuji (1542)
• First Battle of Azukizaka (1542)
• Siege of Toda Castle (1542–1543)
• Utsuro Rebellion (1542–1548) ja:天文の乱(洞の乱)
• Siege of Tochio (1544)
• Siege of Takatō (1545)
• Battle of Kawagoe (1546)
• Battle of Odaihara (1546)
• Siege of Shika Castle (1546–1547)
• Battle of Kanōguchi (1547)
• Second Battle of Azukizaka (1548)
• Battle of Uedahara (1548)
• Battle of Shiojiritoge (1548)
• Siege of Kajiki (1549)
• Siege of Toishi (1550) ja:砥石崩れ
• Tainei-ji incident (1551)
• Battle of Kiyosu Castle (1552)
• Siege of Katsurao (1553)
• First Battle of Kawanakajima (1553)
• Siege of Kannomine (1554)
• Siege of Matsuo (1554)
• Battle of Enshu-Omori (1554)
• Siege of Iwatsurugi Castle (1554)
• Battle of Muraki Castle (1554)
• Second Battle of Kawanakajima (1555)
• Battle of Ino (1555)
• Battle of Miyajima (1555)
• Battle of Nagaragawa (1556)
• Siege of Katsurayama (1557)
• Third Battle of Kawanakajima (1557)
• Battle of Ukino (1558)
• Siege of Terabe (1558)
• Siege of Marune (1560)
• Battle of Okehazama (1560)
• Battle of Tonomoto (1560)
• Battle of Norada (1560)
• Battle of Moribe (1561)
• First Siege of Odawara (1561)
• Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima (1561)
• Siege of Moji (1561)
• Battle of Kyōkōji (1562)
• Siege of Kaminogō Castle (1562)
• Siege of Musashi-Matsuyama (1563)
• Battle of Batogahara (1564)
• Battle of Kōnodai (1564)
• Fifth Battle of Kawanakajima (1564)
• Battle of Fukuda Bay (1565)
• Siege of Minowa (1566)
• Siege of Inabayama Castle (1567)

Azuchi–Momoyama period

• Battle of Torisaka (1568)
• Siege of Hachigata (1568)
• Siege of Tachibana (1569)
• Battle of Tatarahama (1569)
• Second Siege of Odawara (1569)
• Battle of Mimasetoge (1569)
• Siege of Kakegawa (1569)
• Siege of Kanbara (1569)
• Battle of Nunobeyama (1570)
• Battle of Takehiro (1571)
• Siege of Fukazawa (1571)
• Battle of Tonegawa (1571)
• Siege of Futamata (1572)
• Battle of Kizaki (1572)
• Siege of Noda Castle (1573)
• First Siege of Takatenjin (1574)
• Siege of Yoshida Castle (1575)
• Siege of Takabaru (1576)
• Siege of Nanao (1577)
• Siege of Otate (1578)
• Battle of Mimigawa (1578)
• Battle of Mimaomote (1579)
• Battle of Omosu (1580)
• Battle of Nakatomigawa (1582)
• Battle of Okitanawate (1584)
• Siege of Iwaya Castle (1586)
• Battle of Hitotoribashi (1586)
• Battle of Koriyama (1588)
• Siege of Kurokawa Castle (1589)
• Battle of Suriagehara (1589)

Unification by Oda Nobunaga

• • Siege of Kanegasaki (1570)
  • Siege of Chōkō-ji (1570)
  • Battle of Anegawa (1570)
  • Ishiyama Hongan-ji War (1570–1580)
  • Siege of Mount Hiei (1571)
  • Sieges of Nagashima (1571, 1573, 1574)
  • Siege of Iwamura Castle (1572)
  • Battle of Mikatagahara (1573)
  • Siege of Odani Castle (1573)
  • Siege of Ichijōdani Castle (1573)
  • Battle of Nagashino (1575)
  • Battles of Kizugawaguchi (1576, 1578)
  • Siege of Kuroi Castle (1577)
  • Siege of Shigisan (1577)
  • Battle of Tedorigawa (1577)
  • Siege of Kōzuki Castle (1578)
  • Siege of Miki (1578–1580)
  • Siege of Yakami (1579)
  • Siege of Itami (1579)
  • Tenshō Iga War (1579, 1581)
  • Siege of Hijiyama (1581)
  • Second Siege of Takatenjin (1581)
  • Siege of Tottori (1581)
  • Battle of Tenmokuzan (1582)
  • Siege of Takatō (1582)
  • Siege of Takamatsu (1582)
  • Siege of Uozu (1582)
  • Honnō-ji Incident (1582)
  • Battle of Kanagawa (1582)

Unification by Toyotomi Hideyoshi

• • Battle of Yamazaki (1582)
  • Battle of Shizugatake (1583)
  • Battle of Hiketa (1583)
  • Battle of Komaki and Nagakute (1584)
  • Siege of Kanie (1584)
  • Siege of Suemori (1584)
  • Siege of Negoro-ji (1585)
  • Siege of Ōta Castle (1585)
  • Siege of Toyama (1585)
  • Shikoku campaign (1585)
  • Kyūshū campaign (1586–1587)
  • Siege of Shimoda (1590)
  • Siege of Hachigata (1590)
  • Siege of Odawara (1590)
  • Siege of Oshi (1590)
  • Kunohe Rebellion (1591)
• Hideyoshi's invasions of Korea (1592–1598)
  • Battle of Bunroku (1592–1593)
  • Battle of Keicho (1597–1598)

Unification by Tokugawa Ieyasu

• • Siege of Shiroishi (1600)
  • Siege of Hataya (1600)
  • Siege of Kaminoyama (1600)
  • Siege of Hasedō (1600)
  • Siege of Matsukawa (1600)
  • Siege of Tanabe (1600)
  • Battle of Gifu Castle (1600)
  • Siege of Fushimi (1600)
  • Battle of Asai (1600)
  • Siege of Annotsu (1600)
  • Siege of Ueda (1600)
  • Siege of Ōtsu (1600)
  • Battle of Ishigakibara (1600)
  • Battle of Kuisegawa (1600)
  • Battle of Sekigahara (1600)
  • Siege of Udo (1600)
  • Siege of Yanagawa (1600)
  • Siege of Sawayama (1600)

Edo period

• Battle of Matsukawa (1601)
• Rokugō Rebellion (1603)
• Invasion of Ryukyu (1609)
• Nossa Senhora da Graça incident (1610)
• Siege of Osaka (1614–1615)
  • Winter Campaign (大坂冬の陣 Osaka Fuyu no Jin)
    • Battle of Imafuku (1614)
    • Battle of Shigino (1614)
    • Battle of Kizugawa (1614)
    • Battle of Noda-Fukushima (1614)
    • Siege of Sanada-maru (1615)
  • Summer Campaign (大坂夏の陣 Osaka Natsu no Jin)
    • Battle of Kashii (1615)
    • Battle of Dōmyōji (1615)
    • Battle of Yao (1615)
    • Battle of Wakae (1615)
    • Battle of Tennoji (1615)
• Japanese invasion of Taiwan (1616) (1616–1617)
• Shimabara Rebellion (1637–1638)
• Shakushain's Revolt (1669–1672)
• Jōkyō Uprising (1686)
• Ueda Rebellion (1761) ja:上田騒動
• Nijinomatsubara Rebellion (1771) ja:虹の松原一揆
• Menashi-Kunashir Rebellion (1789)
• Ōshio Heihachirō's Rebellion (1837)
• Tsushima Incident (1862)
• Battle of Shimonoseki Straits (1863)
• Battles for Shimonoseki (1863)
• Bombardment of Kagoshima (1863)
• Mito Rebellion (1864)
• Kinmon Incident (1864)
• First Chōshū expedition (1864)
• Battles for Shimonoseki (1864)
• Second Chōshū expedition (1866)

Boshin War (1868–1869)

• Battle of Toba–Fushimi (1868)
• Battle of Awa (1868)
• Battle of Kōshū-Katsunuma (1868)
• Battle of Utsunomiya Castle (1868)
• Battle of Ueno (1868)
• Battle of Aizu (1868)
• Battle of Miyako Bay (1869)
• Battle of Hakodate (1869)
• Naval Battle of Hakodate (1869)

Modern period

Meiji period

• Saga Rebellion (1874)
• Japanese invasion of Taiwan (1874)
• Ganghwa Island incident (1875)
• Shinpūren Rebellion (1876)
• Akizuki Rebellion (1876)
• Hagi Rebellion (1876)
• Satsuma Rebellion (1877)
  • Siege of Kumamoto Castle (1877)
  • Battle of Tabaruzaka (1877)
  • Battle of Shiroyama (1877)
• Donghak Peasant Revolution (1894–1895)
  • Battle of Ugeumchi (1894)

First Sino-Japanese War (1894–1895)

• Battle of Pungdo (1894)
• Battle of Seonghwan (1894)
• Battle of Pyongyang (1894)
• Battle of Yalu River (1894)
• Battle of Jiuliancheng (1894)
• Battle of Lushunkou (1894)
• Battle of Weihaiwei (1895)
• Battle of Yingkou (1895)
• Japanese invasion of Taiwan (1895)
  • Pescadores Campaign (1895)
  • Battle of Keelung (1895) (1895)
  • Hsinchu Campaign (1895)
  • Battle of Baguashan (1895)
  • Battle of Chiayi (1895)
  • Battle of Chiatung (1895)
  • Capitulation of Tainan (1895)
  • Battle of Changhsing (1895)

Boxer Rebellion (1899–1901)

Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905)

• Battle of Port Arthur (1904–1905)
• Battle of Yalu River (1904)
• Battle of the Yellow Sea (1904)
• Battle of Nanshan (1904)
• Battle of Shantung (1904)
• Battle of Dairen (1904)
• Battle of Liaoyang (1904)
• Battle of Tsushima (1905)
• Battle of Mukden (1905)

Japan–Korea Treaty of 1907 (1907)

• Namdaemun Battle (1907)

Taisho Period

World War I (1914–1918)

• Siege of Tsingtao (1914)

Siberian Intervention (1918–1922)

Battles of the Korean independence movement

• Battle of Samdunja
• Battle of Fengwudong (Battle of Bong-o-dong)
• Hunchun incident
• Battle of Qingshanli (Battle of Cheongsanri)
• Free City Incident
• Battle of Pochonbo (1937)

Invasion of Manchuria (1931)

Showa Period

Second Sino-Japanese War (1931–1945)

• 1931 — Mukden Incident
• 1931–32 — Japanese invasion of Manchuria
• 1931 — Jiangqiao Campaign
• 1931 — Battle for Nenjiang Bridge
• 1931–1942 — Pacification of Manchukuo
• 1931–1932 — Jinzhou Operation
• 1932 — Battle of Harbin
• 1932 — First Battle of Shanghai
• 1932 — Attack on Pingdingshan
• 1932 — Attack on Fushun
• 1933 — Battle of the Great Wall
• 1933 — Battle of Rehe
• 1933–1936 — Southern Mongolian campaign (1933–36)
• 1936 — Suiyuan Campaign
• 1937 — Battle of Pochonbo
• 1937 — Lugou Bridge Incident
• 1937 — Battle of Beiping–Tianjin
• 1937–1945 — Aerial engagements of the Second Sino-Japanese War
• 1937 — Operation Chahar
• 1937 — Second Battle of Shanghai
• 1937 — Peiking–Suiyuan Railway Operation
• 1937 — Beiping–Hankou Railway Operation
• 1937 — Tianjin–Pukou Railway Operation
• 1937 — Battle of Taiyuan
• 1937 — Battle of Pingxingguan
• 1937 — Battle of Sihang Warehouse
• 1937 — Battle of Xinkou
• 1937 — Battle of Nanking
• 1938 — Battle of Taierzhuang
• 1938 — Battle of Xuzhou
• 1938 — Battle of Northern and Eastern Henan
• 1938 — Battle of Lanfeng
• 1938 — Amoy Operation
• 1938 — Taihoku Air Strike
• 1938 — Bombing of Chongqing
• 1938 — Battle of Wuhan
• 1938 — Battle of Xinfeng
• 1938 — Battle of Wanjialing
• 1938 — Canton Operation
• 1939 — Hainan Island Operation
• 1939 — Battle of Nanchang
• 1939 — Battle of Suixian–Zaoyang
• 1939 — Swatow Operation
• 1939 — First Battle of Changsha
• 1939–1940 — Battle of South Guangxi
• 1939–1940 — Battle of Kunlun Pass
• 1940 — Battle of West Suiyuan
• 1940 — Battle of Wuyuan
• 1940 — Battle of Zaoyang–Yichang
• 1940 — Hundred Regiments Offensive
• 1940 — Central Hubei Operation
• 1941 — New Fourth Army incident
• 1941 — Western Hubei Operation
• 1941 — Battle of South Henan
• 1941 — Battle of Shanggao
• 1941 — Battle of South Shanxi
• 1941 — Second Battle of Changsha
• 1941 — December 1941 Chinese Nationalist guerrilla warfare
• 1941 — Battle of Hong Kong
• 1941 — Bombing of Singapore
• 1941–1942 — Third Battle of Changsha
• 1942–1945 — South-East Asian theatre of World War II
• 1942 — 1942 Bombing of Vietnam
• 1942 — Malayan campaign
• 1942 — Battle of Singapore
• 1942 — Battle of Sarimbun Beach
• 1942 — Battle of Kranji
• 1942 — Battle of Bukit Timah
• 1942–1945 — Burma campaign (1942–1945)
• 1942 — Japanese invasion of Burma
• 1942 — Battle of the Yunnan–Burma Road
• 1942 — Battle of Tachiao
• 1942 — Battle of Oktwin
• 1942 — Battle of Toungoo
• 1942 — Battle of Yenangyaung
• 1942 — Combined Japanese-Thai invasion of the Shan States
• 1942 — Thai invasion of the Kayah State
• 1942 — Burma campaign (1942–1943)
• 1942 — Zhejiang-Jiangxi campaign
• 1942 — Battle of the Dwarf Mountain
• 1943 — Operation North of the Yangtze
• 1943 — Battle of Guangzhouwan
• 1943 — Battle of West Hubei
• 1943 — Weinan Campaign
• 1943 — Linnan Campaign
• 1943–1945 — Battle of Northern Burma and Western Yunnan
• 1943 — Battle of Changde
• 1943 — 1943 Bombing of Vietnam
• 1943 — 1943 Bombing of Taiwan
• 1944–1945 — Bombing of South-East Asia (1944–1945)
• 1944 — Burma campaign (1944)
• 1944 — Operation Ichi-Go
• 1944 — Battle of Central Henan
• 1944 — Siege of Myitkyina
• 1944 — Fourth Battle of Changsha
• 1944 — Battle of Mogaung
• 1944 — Battle of Mount Song
• 1944 — Battle of Hengyang
• 1944 — Battle of Guilin–Liuzhou
• 1944–1945 — Burma campaign (1944–1945)
• 1945 — Battle of West Henan–North Hubei
• 1945 — Battle of West Hunan
• 1945 — 1945 Guangxi campaign

Soviet–Japanese border conflicts (1932-1939)

• Battle of Khalkhyn Temple (1935)
• Tauran Incident (1936)
• Kanchazu Island incident (1936)
• Battle of Lake Khasan (1938)
• Battles of Khalkhin Gol (1939)

Invasion of French Indochina (1940)

• 1940 Cochinchina uprising (1940)

World War II

1941

• Attack on Pearl Harbor
• Japanese invasion of The Philippines
• Japanese invasion of Thailand
• Battle of Malaya
• Battle of Hong Kong
• Battle of Guam
• Battle of Wake Island
• Battle of Singapore
• Battle of Borneo
• Battle of Kampar

1942

• Battle of Bataan
• Battle of Manado
• Battle of Tarakan
• Battle of Balikpapan
• Battle of Ambon
• Marshalls-Gilberts raids
• Battle of Makassar Strait
• Invasion of Sumatra
• Battle of Palembang
• Battle of Badung Strait
• Battle of Timor
• Battle of the Java Sea
• Battle of the Coral Sea
• Battle of Corregidor
• Battle of Midway
• Battle of the Eastern Solomons
• Battle of Savo Island
• Battle of Milne Bay
• Battle of Tassafaronga
• Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands
• Battle of Guadalcanal (7 August 1942 – 9 February 1943)

1943

• Battle of the Bismarck Sea (2–4 March)
• Battle of the Komandorski Islands (27 March)
• Battle of Bairoko (20 July)
• Battle of Empress Augusta Bay (1–2 November)
• Battle of Tarawa (20 November – 23 November)

1944

• Battle of Imphal (March – July)
• Battle of the Philippine Sea (19–20 June)
• Battle of Saipan (15 June – 9 July)
• Battle of Guam (21 July — 10 August)
• Battle of Peleliu (September – November)
• Battle of Leyte Gulf (23–26 October)
• Battle of Leyte (17 October – 31 December)

1945

• Battle of Iwo Jima (19 February – 26 March)
• Battle of Okinawa (April – June)
• Operation Ten-Go (April)
• Soviet–Japanese War
• Soviet invasion of Manchuria (9 August – 2 September)
• Seishin Operation
• Soviet invasion of South Sakhalin
• Invasion of the Kuril Islands

Heisei Period

• Battle of Amami-Ōshima (2001)

See also

• Military history of Japan
• Battles of the Imperial Japanese Navy

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