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• 1597
  * 1597/7 Japanese forces defeat Korean naval forces at Chilcheonnyang. * 1597/8 Japanese troops capture the Namwon fortress.
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• Shirahama Kenki
  *''Japanese:'' 白浜剣鬼<!--Not sure on these kanji. Please help.--> (''Shirahama Ke ...aider (''[[wako|wakô]]'') of the late 16th-early 17th centuries, the first Japanese with whom the southern Vietnamese kingdom of the Nguyen lords made contact.
  2 KB (292 words) - 00:15, 5 October 2015
• Yevfimy Vasilyevich Putyatin
  ...ted States; 7/18 on the Japanese calendar) aboard the ''[[Pallada]]''. His fleet then made port at [[Naha]], the primary port of the Ryûkyû Kingdom, from ...ttacking Putyatin. Putyatin fled, but returned on November 8 (9/18) with a fleet headed by the ''[[Diana]]'', landing first at [[Hakodate]], then [[Osaka]],
  4 KB (611 words) - 01:54, 6 February 2020
• Komatsu Teruhisa
  *''Japanese'': [[小松]] 輝久 ''(Komatsu Teruhisa)'' ...ising to the rank of captain (''taisa'') and being named head of the Sixth Fleet in 1942. The following year, he became the chief commanding officer at Sase
  2 KB (348 words) - 19:18, 5 January 2017
• Fusuma shitabari monjo
  *''Japanese'': 襖下張り文書 ''(fusuma shitabari monjo)'' ...he existence of these ships"<ref>Amino, 27.</ref> in the Tokikuni merchant fleet.
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• Mongol invasions
  Mongol, Chinese, and Korean forces under [[Kublai Khan]] vs. Japanese forces under [[Dazai]] [[Shoni Tsunetsugu|Shôni Tsunetsugu]] *Japanese: 元寇 ''(Genkou)''
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• 1913
  *California imposes restrictions on Japanese ownership of land. *[[Togo Heihachiro|Tôgô Heihachirô]] is named fleet admiral (''gensui'').
  2 KB (227 words) - 02:56, 13 December 2019
• Kanko Maru
  *''Japanese'': 観光丸 ''(kankou maru)'' ...ong with a portrait of the king, and to have its crew train some number of Japanese sailors more extensively in the operation of the vessel.<ref>Ishin Shiryô
  2 KB (320 words) - 00:04, 26 May 2020
• Ryukyuan ships
  ..." or "longevity," but after arriving in Ryûkyû, they were then often given Japanese names ending in "''-maru''" and/or Ryukyuan names ending in "''-tomi''."<re ...dominant role. By the end of the 1570s, nearly all ships in the royal navy/fleet were made in Ryûkyû, albeit in forms in complete emulation of Ming vessel
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• Russo-Japanese War
  ...print triptych by [[Kobayashi Kiyochika]] depicting a scene from the Russo-Japanese War]] *''Japanese'': 日露戦争 ''(Nichi-ro sensou)''
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• Boshin War
  *''Japanese'': 戊辰戦争 (Boshin Sensou) [[Enomoto Takeaki]] and former Bakufu retainers took Bakufu's fleet to Ezo, occupied [[Goryokaku|Goryôkaku]] fort in 10/26 and established the
  4 KB (512 words) - 10:45, 18 December 2021
• Commodore Matthew Perry
  *''Japanese'': ペリー提督 ''(Perii teitoku)'' ...the signing of the [[Harris Treaty]] several years later, opening several Japanese ports to Western commercial activity, are generally taken to mark the begin
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• 1592
  * 1592/4/13 Japanese forces land on Korean soil and capture Pusan. * 1592/5/7 Korean '[[turtle ships]]' under Admiral [[Yi Sun Shin]] sink 26 Japanese vessels near Okpo; by 5/8 Yi sinks a further 18 ships.
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• Battle of Tsushima
  * ''Japan (The Combined Fleet) Vs. [[Russia]] (Second and Third Pacific Squadrons)'' In October 1904, Russia's Baltic Fleet, now renamed the [[Second Pacific Squadron]], was preparing to set out on i
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• Hideyoshi's invasions of Korea
  *''Japanese:'' 朝鮮出兵 ''(Chôsen Shuppei)'' In Japanese, the invasions of Korea are generally known respectively as ''Bunroku no ek
  9 KB (1,393 words) - 11:57, 15 August 2019
• Eunuchs
  ...] states. [[Zheng He]], the admiral who famously commanded a Ming treasure fleet across the Indian Ocean, as far as India, the Persian Gulf, the Horn of Afr ...Emperor]],<ref>Conrad Schirokauer, et al, ''A Brief History of Chinese and Japanese Civilizations'', Fourth Edition, Cengage Learning (2012), 247.</ref> from a
  5 KB (740 words) - 20:08, 19 February 2015
• Tsushima
  *''Japanese'': 対馬 ''(Tsushima)'' ...ushima province]], and was one of the "eight islands" referred to when the Japanese archipelago was referred to as ''[[Alternate historical names for Japan|Yas
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• Manila
  ...Hong]] was perhaps among the more prominent pirates in the area; he led a fleet of some sixty junks in a series of attacks on the Spanish in [[1574]] which ...e restrictions on the Japanese living in Manila, and around the same time, Japanese residents, such as [[Harada Quimon]], petitioned [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]] to
  6 KB (977 words) - 03:59, 20 January 2016
• Kyushu
  * ''Japanese:'' 九州 ''(Kyuushuu)'' ...tection from mainland invaders.<ref>[[Albert M. Craig]], ''The Heritage of Japanese Civilization'', Second Edition, Prentice Hall (2011), 2.</ref>
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• Yi Sun-Shin
  ...who lost 130 ships to Yi's turtle ships. Yi led seven more attacks on the Japanese navy in the 2nd and 3rd months of [[1593]], and on 1593/8/15 was named comm ...nnon. In addition to merely winning victories, Yi succeeded in cutting off Japanese supply lines in the waters on the western side of the Korean peninsula, and
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