Battles of the Imperial Japanese Navy
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Battles of the Imperial Japanese Navy
The following are some of the battles of the Imperial Japanese Navy:
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[edit] Boshin War (1868-1869):
- Naval Battle of Awa, 28 January 1868.
- Naval Battle of Miyako, March 1869.
- Naval Battle of Hakodate, May 1869 (Imperial Navy victory over the remnants of the Shogun's Navy of the Republic of Ezo.)
[edit] First Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895):
- Battle of Yalu River (1894) (Major naval victory over China)
[edit] Japanese Occupation of Korea 1895
[edit] Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905):
- Battle of Port Arthur (1904, land and naval victory over Russia)
- Battle of the Yellow Sea (Aug 1904)
- Battle of Tsushima (May 1905, major naval victory over Russia)
[edit] World War I (1914-1918)
- Battle of Tsingtao. Naval actions against German interests in the Far-East, in particular the capture of the Tsingtao peninsula.
- Few ships diverted to Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea for escort duties cooperating with the British navy. In the Mediterranean, a fleet consisting of one armoured cruiser, Nisshin, and eight of the Navy's newest destroyers under Admiral Satō Kōzō, was based in Malta and efficiently protected allied shipping between Marseilles, Taranto and ports in Egypt until the end of the War.
- Seizure of the former possessions of Germany in Micronesia (the Mariana Islands (excluding Guam), Caroline Islands and Marshall Islands).
[edit] Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945):
- Essentially support of land action.
[edit] World War II (1941-1945):
- Attack on Pearl Harbor (7 December 1941, destruction of much of the US Navy's Pacific battleship fleet)
- Sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse (10 December 1941, destruction of the British Navy Z force)
- Battle of Makassar Strait, (February 4, 1942, Japanese victory)
- Attack on Darwin, Australia, (19 February 1942)
- Battle of the Java Sea (27 February 1942, Japanese victory against US and Dutch forces)
- Indian Ocean raid, (31 March 1942, Japanese victory)
- Attack on Sydney Harbour (May-June 1942)
- Battle of Madagascar (May-November 1942, Allied victory)
- Battle of the Coral Sea (May 1942, tactical Japanese victory, strategic US victory)
- Battle of Midway (5 June 1942, major US victory, the IJN loses four carriers to USN aircraft attacks)
- Battle of Savo Island (9 August 1942, Japanese tactical victory, strategically inconclusive)
- Battle of the Eastern Solomons (24 August 1942, inconclusive)
- Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands (26 October 1942, Japanese tactical victory)
- Naval Battle of Guadalcanal (12 November 1942, narrow US tactical victory, US strategic victory)
- Battle of Tassafaronga (30 November 1942, Japanese tactical night battle victory)
- Battle of the Bismarck Sea (23 December 1942, US victory)
- Battle of the Komandorski Islands (26 March 1943, narrow US victory)
- Battle of Empress Augusta Bay (1 November 1943, US victory)
- Battle of the Philippine Sea (19 June 1944, major US victory)
- Battle of Leyte Gulf (23 Oct 1944, major US victory)
- Operation Ten-Go (7 Apr 1945, US victory)
