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Events in the year 1942inJapan. Emperor: Hirohito Prime Minister: Hideki Tōjō Aichi Prefecture: Yukisawa Chiyoji Akita Prefecture: Fumi Aomori Prefecture:...
Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, following Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, Guam, the Philippines, and Wake Island in December 1941. Before the...
elections were held inJapan on 30 April 1942 to elect members of the House of Representatives. They were the only elections held inJapan during World War...
on 19 February 1942 was the largest single attack ever mounted by a foreign power on Australia. On that day, 242 Japanese aircraft, in two separate raids...
Japan participated in World War II from 1940 to 1945 as a member of the Axis and encapsulates a significant period in the history of the Empire of Japan...
Battle of Ceylon inJapanese, was a naval sortie carried out by the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) from 31 March to 10 April 1942. Japanese aircraft carriers...
by the Empire of Japan, following the fall and surrender of British military forces on 15 February 1942 during World War II. Japanese military forces occupied...
Melbourne in March 1942 and American troops began massing in Australia. Enemy naval activity reached Sydney in late May 1942, when Japanese midget submarines...
place over four years from 1942 to 1945. During the first year of the campaign (December 1941 to mid-1942), the Japanese Army (with aid from Thai Phayap...
1942 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1942. 1942 (MCMXLII)...
The Japanese Empire occupied the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) during World War II from March 1942 until after the end of the war in September 1945...
as well as the Tokyo Raid, was an air raid on 18 April 1942 by the United States on the Japanese capital Tokyo and other places on Honshu during World...
Japan is an island country in East Asia. It is in the northwest Pacific Ocean and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, extending from the Sea...
Immediately after the fall of Singapore in1942 certain Army circles argued that Japan should exploit her advantage and seek peace with Great Britain....
Japanese Military Authority, as a replacement for local currency after the conquest of colonies and other states in World War II. In February 1942in...
a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place 4–7 June 1942, six months after the Empire of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor...
The Empire of Japan, also referred to as the Japanese Empire, Imperial Japan, or simply Japan, was a Japanese nation-state and empire that existed from...
Empire of Japan. On 7 August 1942, Allied forces, predominantly United States Marines, landed on Guadalcanal, Tulagi, and Florida Island in the southern...
Guadalcanal or Battle of Lunga Point by the Japanese, took place from 23 to 26 October 1942 on and around Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. The battle was a...
March 1942, during World War II. Assisted by a mutiny of soldiers of the British Indian Army against their British officers, Imperial Japanese Army troops...
Japan until 1945, the year of the end of World War II in Asia, after the surrender of Japan. Control over all territories except most of the Japanese...
Guns, or, inJapanese sources, the Third Battle of the Solomon Sea (第三次ソロモン海戦, Dai-san-ji Soromon Kaisen), took place from 12 to 15 November 1942 and was...
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