* 1597/7 Japanese forces defeat Korean naval forces at Chilcheonnyang.
* 1597/8 Japanese troops capture the Namwon fortress.
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*''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.
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...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]],
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*''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
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*''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, Chinese, and Korean forces under [[Kublai Khan]] vs. Japanese forces under [[Dazai]] [[Shoni Tsunetsugu|Shôni Tsunetsugu]]
*Japanese: 元寇 ''(Genkou)''
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*California imposes restrictions on Japanese ownership of land.
*[[Togo Heihachiro|Tôgô Heihachirô]] is named fleet admiral (''gensui'').
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*''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
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..." 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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...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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*''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
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*''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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* 1592/4/13 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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* ''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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*''Japanese:'' 朝鮮出兵 ''(Chôsen Shuppei)''
In Japanese, the invasions of Korea are generally known respectively as ''Bunroku no ek
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...] 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
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*''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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...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
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* ''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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...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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* Japanese: 長宗我部 元親 ''(Chousokabe Motochika)''
...Bungo]], defeated. The [[Otomo clan|Ôtomo]] later supplied Kanesada with a fleet and he returned in an expedition which the Chôsokabe easily crushed. The t
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* ''Entered Japanese Service: 3 February 1869''
...right|Naval ensign of the 大日本帝國海軍 (''Dai Nippon Teikoku Kaigun'' [Imperial Japanese Navy]) prior to 1889.]]
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...ndfall in [[Bungo province]], in Kyushu, on April 19, [[1600]] (3/7 on the Japanese calendar). Only 21 of the original 110 crew were still alive and with the s
...-countries.html). This would mean the date he he saw Ieyasu was 1600/3/29 (Japanese calendar). However, England was still using the Julian calendar. If Adams a
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*''Japanese/Chinese'': 勘合貿易 ''(kangou boueki / kanhe maoyi)''
...tified them to Chinese port officials as licensed merchants or as official Japanese [[tribute]] missions, distinguishing them, therefore, from smugglers or pir
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...in the city. (''Japanese Noh Drama: Plays Selected and Translated from the Japanese'', vol. 3, Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkôkai (1960), 151n2.)</ref>
* ''Japanese:'' [[源]] 義経 ''(Minamoto no Yoshitsune)''
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*''Japanese'': 南洋 ''(nan'you)'', 南洋群島 ''(nan'you guntou)''
...eas archipelago") was ruled as a Japanese colony from 1914 until 1944. The Japanese first gained control of Micronesia as part of treaty conditions following W
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* ''Japanese'': [[毛利]]輝元 ''(Mouri Terumoto)''
...nganji's sea-lanes and sat in blockade off the coast. Terumoto ordered his fleet, commanded by [[Murakami Takayoshi]], to make for the waters off Settsu and
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...] in [[Kagoshima]], at the former site of the docks from which the Satsuma fleet departed for [[Yamakawa]].]]
...d normally have made a landing difficult, unusually high tides carried the Japanese ships over the obstacles, and the island surrendered with little or no figh
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...used at the time, in the Edo period, while ''tsûshinshi'' was used by the Japanese more commonly in the Muromachi period. See: Lillehoj. p107n3.</ref>
*''Japanese/Korean'': （朝鮮）通信使 ''((Chousen) tsuushinshi / (Joseon) t'ongsi
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*''Japanese'': 源平合戦 ''(Genpei kassen)''
...turn to the war. Intending to launch an assault on Yashima, he assembled a fleet of ships at Watanabe ([[Settsu province]]). During the preparations he argu
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*''Chinese/Japanese'': 台湾 ''(Táiwān / Taiwan)''
...''[[wako|wakô]]'' ("Japanese brigands") were mostly Chinese, but included Japanese, Koreans, and Southeast Asians as well, and raided ships and ports all alon
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*''Japanese/Chinese/Korean'': [[倭]]寇 ''(wakou / wōkòu / waegu)''
...6th century), these regions became major centers of ''wakô'' activity, and Japanese came to be used as a common language among the ''wakô''. However, while ma
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*''Japanese'': 薩摩藩 ''(Satsuma han)'' or, more correctly, 鹿児島藩 ''(Kagoshim
...one location.<ref>Clements, Rebekah. "Alternate Attendance Parades in the Japanese Domain of Satsuma, Seventeenth to Eighteenth Centuries : Pottery, Power and
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* ''Japanese'': [[豊臣]]秀吉 ''Toyotomi Hideyoshi''
One of the most remarkable men in Japanese history, Toyotomi Hideyoshi was born a peasant and yet rose to finally end
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* ''Japanese'': [[織田]] 信長 ''(Oda Nobunaga)''
...(2011), 63.</ref> and the construction of [[Azuchi castle]], the model for Japanese [[castles]] in the mode most well-known today.
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*''Japanese'': 江戸時代 (''Edo jidai'')
...he [[Heian period]] ([[1185]]).<ref>[[Albert M. Craig]], ''The Heritage of Japanese Civilization'', Second Edition, Prentice Hall (2011), 42.</ref> <!--Element
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