0 The beginning of the 19th century, the Japanese foreign trade started.
1868-1873 Japan passed the parliamentary system and to turn to democracy, but the emperor still held great power.
In 1889, Japan formulated a new constitution that authorized the emperor to declare war and a ceasefire.
1894 Japan became a military power and declared war on China. China was forced to recognize North Korea's independence, and Japan occupied Taiwan, Penghu Islands, and even threatened Liaodong Peninsula (located in the southern end of northeast China).
In 1904, Japan (with the assistance of the United Kingdom) defeated Russia, controlled some of the Northeast, further controlled North Korea, and also controlled some areas of Sakhalin Island north of Hokkaido .
1910 Japan completely invaded North Korea, and it was further named the Republic of Korea.
1918 World War I during Watch Marshall Islands , Caroline Islands and Maryana Islands from German .
1928 Japan expanded its war of aggression against China.
November 10, 1928 - Emperor Hirohito of Japan was crowned, claiming to "promote world peace."
1931 Fengtian (September 18th) Incident - Japan made an excuse to invade the entire Northeast of China, establish the "Manchukuo" that vassalized Japan, and expand the invasion and occupy most of North China. The Chinese people book this day as National Shame Day (Don't forget 918 ).
It can be compared that Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. On that day, the United States declared war on Japan and put forward the slogan "Forget Pearl Island".
Pearl Harbor
1932-1945Ishii Shiro (Ishii Shiro) created 731 troops , a brutal military unit of biochemical warfare, infecting prisoners from Chinese and other countries, conducting experiments, and finally killed thousands of people in this terrifying and inhumane experiment. Their behavior continued until the United States dropped an atomic bomb and the war ended.
1933 Japan was a member of the League of Nations and was forced to express its failure to escalate the war of aggression against China and would no longer continue to occupy China's Northeast.
February 25, 1933 - Japan withdrew from the League of Nations after the League of Nations unanimously approved its condemnation of Japan's continued invasion of China.
1934 Puyi - the last emperor of China, as a puppet of Japan, became the emperor of the "Manchukuo".
July 1937, Lugou Bridge Incident - The Japanese army launched an attack on the Chinese garrison of Lugou Bridge, and a full-scale war of aggression against China broke out.
In August 1937, the Japanese bomber took off from Taiwan and Kyushu to bomb Nanjing and Shanghai.
In November 1937, the Japanese General Command was established in Tokyo and consisted of the Emperor and the head of the General Staff of the Army and Navy.
In December 1937, Nanjing Massacre - Japanese army massacred 300,000 Chinese men, women, young and old in Nanjing. Although the Nanjing Massacre was the most prominent atrocities in Japan's barbaric atrocities, its number was only one percent of the 30 million people massacred by the Japanese army in 1945.
Ms. Zhang Chunru made detailed research and recorded the horrific events of the Nanjing Massacre in her book "Nanjing Massacre". People all over the world should respect and commemorate Ms. Zhang, whose works provide the world with the true historical appearance of this tragedy (Ms. Zhang Chunru died in 2004).
1938 Japan has occupied most of China's major cities.
In 1938, Japan declared to establish a new order of "Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Circle". The US is bringing "co-prosperity" to China, including the Philippines and Indonesia and , and is preparing to enter Australia. The biggest negation of this "co-prosperity" comes from the massacres in China and the atrocities of Unit 731, as well as the enslavement of the Korean Peninsula and all islands and areas occupied by the Japanese army. The expansion of the brutal Japanese Empire is the only place for "prosperity" in the above-mentioned regions.
In 1940, Japan occupied Indochina and joined the Axis Alliance established by Germany and Italy. Japan bombed Chongqing, the then Chinese accompaniment day and night.
In July 1941, Japanese troops occupied other areas of Indochina.
On December 7, 1941, bombing Pearl Harbor - Japan sneaked into the U.S. Navy's naval base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. (At the same time, Japanese diplomats are pretending to negotiate with the United States about issues and trade issues in the Pacific region.) A raid by the Japanese Navy and Air Force killed 2,500 Americans, injured thousands, sunk and severely damaged eight U.S. battleships and other small ships, and destroyed more than 200 aircraft on the ground.
December 7, 1941, to early 1942 - Japan occupied Hong Kong and most parts of Southeast Asia including the Philippines, Singapore , Dutch East Indies , New Guinea and the Western Pacific, as well as most parts of Southeast Asia including Myanmar . After occupying the Batan Peninsula and the Philippines, the Japanese army launched the 12-day "Handle Batan Death March ", which made thousands of Americans and Filipinos humiliated, tortured and murdered during the march, and regarded them as proud and declared the world.
December 8, 1941 - The United States declares war on Japan.
In July 1942, the Battle of Midway - The US Pacific Fleet defeated the Japanese fleet and sunk 4 Japanese battleships, changing the prospects of the war.
From August to November 1942, Guadalcanal Island - the United States won the first victory in the cross-island landing battle against Japan.
October 1942 - The United States regains New Georgia.
In November 1943, Tarawa Island (Gilbert Island) - The US military fought bloody battles to recover the island.
In January 1944, Kwajalin Atoll (Marshall Islands) - another bloody battle, the US military won.
In July 1944, Saipan, Mariana Islands - US troops captured the island, and 30,000 Japanese troops were killed, of which 4,300 were killed by suicide. The number of casualties in the U.S. military is 17,000.
In August 1944, Tinian and Guam - the US military fought hard, suffered many casualties, and later captured.
In October 1944, Beliliu Island - after more than 2,500 casualties in the US, it conquered. 10,000 Japanese troops were killed. The intelligence forecast is that the Japanese army has weak military strength and little resistance.
From October 1944 to July 1945, there were many islands in the Philippines, and the battle was difficult and dangerous. The US military suffered 80,000 casualties and the Japanese army died 250,000. The Japanese army killed 200,000 Filipinos before leaving the Philippines.
In March 1945, Iwo Jima - When the island was captured, 23,000 Japanese troops died in battle. They are all hiding in fortresses, caves and tunnels of underground fortifications. In this battle, 26,000 casualties were killed and killed in the US military, which was the most tragic battle of US Marine Corps in in Pacific Battle.
June 1945, Okinawa Islands - the last fierce battle before attacking Japan. The performance of the Japanese army in Okinawa provides additional and final preview: the battle to attack Japan's local area will be very tragic. After bloody battles and heavy casualties, the US military captured the above nine islands and was ready to launch the Japanese landing war scheduled to start on November 1, 1945, codenamed "Operation Destruction". This day will become "the day of attacking Japan's mainland".
1944 Japan continued to implement the "kill order" against prisoners of war. Once the Japanese mainland is invaded, each prisoner-of-war camp will execute orders to execute all prisoners in China and other prisoners of war camps. The prisoners of war who were rescued after the atomic bomb dropped all said that the Japanese army guarding the prisoner-of-war camp told them that the day of their desperation was the invasion of the Japanese mainland. Lester Tenney, Mel Rosen, Frank Bigelow and some other prisoners of war, who were once prisoners of war, have reported this situation to the author. Many Chinese will die under this order. However, a command to throw an atomic bomb to end the war saved thousands of lives, perhaps millions.
1943-1945
Japan's usual practice in the last few years of the war was to behead all captured pilots.
August 6, 1945 - The B-29 "Enora Guy" bomber piloted by Lt. Col. Paul Tibbets dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima .
August 9, 1945—The second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki.
August 15, 1945 - Japan's surrender day. The Japanese Emperor issued an edict to announce the surrender of Japan (the members of the Supreme War Committee of Japan argued strongly about this decision).
This day should be designated as "Japan's Surrender Day".
September 2, 1945 - Japan officially held a surrender ceremony on the USS Missouri battleship.
This day can also be regarded as "Japan's Surrender Day".