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January–February 2026 Balochistan attacks
January–February 2026 Balochistan attacks: BLA-led Operation Herof 2.0 with BLF, striking 13 districts on 31 January 2026; 33 officially killed, 92 militants reported dead, Mastung prison break, Nushki siege, conflicting casualty counts.
Japan during World War I
Japan during World War I: Entente belligerent (Anglo-Japanese Alliance, 1902) that seized Qingdao and German Pacific islands in 1914, issued the Twenty-One Demands, boomed economically, intervened in Siberia 1918–1922, and joined the League of Nations as a permanent Council member.
Japan during World War II
Japan during World War II: home-front total mobilization under the 1938 National General Mobilization Law, rationing, women's labor conscription, the 1945 surrender after atomic bombings and Soviet entry, and the 1945-1952 U.S. occupation reforms.
Japanese colonial empire
The Japanese colonial empire (1895–1945) was Japan's overseas empire, comprising Taiwan, Korea, Karafuto, the Kwantung Leased Territory, and the South Seas Mandated Islands; the only non-Western imperium of modern times, it ended with Japan's 1945 surrender.
Japanese coup d'état in French Indochina
The Japanese coup d'état in French Indochina, known in Japan as Operation Meigō, was launched on 9 March 1945, overthrowing French colonial rule and interning the French army.
Japanese holdout
Japanese holdout (残留日本兵, zanryū Nipponhei): Imperial Japanese Army soldiers who kept fighting or hiding after Japan's August 15, 1945 surrender. Best-known cases: Shoichi Yokoi (Guam, 1972), Hiroo Onoda (Lubang, 1974), Teruo Nakamura (Morotai, December 1974, last known).
Japanese Instrument of Surrender
Japanese Instrument of Surrender: the September 2, 1945 document signed by Shigemitsu, Umezu, and MacArthur aboard USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay accepting the Potsdam Declaration and ending World War II.
Japanese invasion of French Indochina
Japanese invasion of French Indochina: September 1940 entry into Tonkin, July 1941 southern occupation under Vichy collaboration, and the 9 March 1945 coup ending French rule, leading to famine and Vietnam's 1945 independence.
Japanese invasion of Manchuria
Japanese invasion of Manchuria (Mukden Incident, Manchurian Incident): Kwantung Army seizure of China's three northeastern provinces from 18 September 1931, staged railway explosion, puppet state Manchukuo, Stimson Doctrine, Lytton Report, Japan's 1933 League withdrawal.
Japanese invasion of Taiwan (1895)
The Japanese invasion of Taiwan (1895), or Yiwei War (乙未戰爭), was Japan's May–November 1895 campaign to occupy Taiwan and Penghu ceded by the Treaty of Shimonoseki, opposed by the short-lived Republic of Formosa, Hakka militias, and Liu Yongfu's Black Flag forces.
Japanese occupation of Guam
The Japanese occupation of Guam was Japan's military rule of the US island territory from December 10, 1941, until American forces recaptured Guam on July 21, 1944.
Japanese occupation of Hong Kong (香港日占时期)
Japanese occupation of Hong Kong (香港日占时期), the Three Years and Eight Months (三年零八個月), 25 December 1941 to 30 August 1945: Isogai's military governorship, military yen, famine reducing the population from 1.6 million to 600,000, and British liberation.
Japanese occupation of Malaya
Japanese occupation of Malaya (1941-1945): Imperial Japanese military rule after the 8 December 1941 invasion and the 15 February 1942 fall of Singapore, marked by banana-money inflation, food rationing, MPAJA resistance, and the 1945 Japanese surrender.
Japanese occupation of Nauru
The Japanese occupation of Nauru was Japan's three-year occupation of Nauru, from August 1942 to September 1945, during which an airfield was built and two thirds of Nauruans deported to Truk.
Japanese occupation of Singapore
Japanese occupation of Singapore (Syonan-to, 1942-1945): three years and eight months of Japanese military rule after the British surrender on 15 February 1942, marked by the Sook Ching massacre, food shortages, and Japanisation, ending with Japan's September 1945 surrender.
Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies
Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies (1942–1945): Japan's conquest and military rule of the Dutch colonial archipelago, covering the Gunseibu administration, romusha forced labour, internment camps, the Java famine, and the mobilisation of Indonesian nationalism that enabled independence in 1945.
Japanese occupation of the Philippines
Japanese occupation of the Philippines (1942–1945): Japan's WWII military administration of the islands, its puppet Second Republic under José P. Laurel, guerrilla resistance, economic collapse, and liberation by U.S. forces under MacArthur.
Japanese prisoners of war in World War II
Japanese POWs of WWII: only 42,543 surrendered to Western Allies before the war's end due to anti-surrender doctrine; about 575,000 went to Soviet labor camps, with roughly 55,000 deaths, and repatriation ran to 1956.
Japanese Red Army (日本赤軍)
Japanese Red Army (日本赤軍, Nihon Sekigun), far-left terrorist group founded 1971 by Fusako Shigenobu in Lebanon with PFLP ties; Lod airport massacre, Hague siege, Dhaka hijacking; dissolved 2001, succeeded by Rentai.
Japanese war crimes
Japanese war crimes: atrocities by the Empire of Japan's forces, 1931–1945, including the Nanjing Massacre, comfort women, Unit 731 human experimentation, and POW abuse, and the postwar Tokyo and Allied trials.
Japanese–Italian War
Japanese–Italian War: the 1943 armed confrontation in China after Italy's 8 September armistice, when Japan seized the Tianjin concession, disarmed San Marco garrisons, and interned about 1,100 Italians.
Jasenovac concentration camp
Jasenovac was a complex of five concentration and extermination camps run by Croatia's Ustaša regime on the Sava River, operating from August 1941 to April 1945.
Jasper Tudor
Jasper Tudor (c. 1431–1495), earl of Pembroke and duke of Bedford, half-brother of Henry VI, Lancastrian commander in Wales, guardian and mentor of Henry VII in Breton exile, fought at Bosworth 1485.
Jayhawker
Jayhawker: nickname for a Kansan, originally an antislavery guerrilla raider of the Bleeding Kansas era and Civil War border conflict; disputed origin, later the University of Kansas Jayhawks mascot.
Jean Moulin
Jean Moulin (1899-1943), French prefect and Resistance leader under aliases Max and Rex, unified the Resistance as de Gaulle's delegate, founded the CNR on 27 May 1943, was arrested at Caluire, tortured by Klaus Barbie, and died 8 July 1943; panthéonized 1964.
Jebala resistance
The Jebala resistance was the armed opposition of the Jbala tribes of northwestern Morocco to Spanish colonial rule from 1912 to the mid-1920s, led largely by Raisuni.
Jebel Akhdar War
Jebel Akhdar War (al-Jabal al-Akhdar War, 1954–1959): Omani Imamate insurgency against the Sultan of Muscat and Oman, crushed by British-backed RAF air power and 22 SAS, who captured the Green Mountain plateau on 30 January 1959.
Jeff Bauman
Jeff Bauman, Boston Marathon bombing survivor (April 15, 2013) who lost both legs, helped identify Tamerlan Tsarnaev from his hospital bed, wrote the memoir Stronger, adapted into a 2017 Jake Gyllenhaal film.
Jeju uprising
Jeju uprising (제주 4·3 사건, Jeju April 3 Incident): 1948 insurrection by the South Korean Labor Party's Jeju branch against the May 10 election, suppressed 1947–1954 with 25,000–30,000 deaths, over 95% of mid-mountain villages burned, and 40,000 refugees to Japan.
Jellaz massacre
The Jellaz massacre (أحداث جلاز) was the violent suppression of a 1911 anti-colonial protest at the Jellaz cemetery, Tunis' largest Muslim necropolis, leaving roughly 20 to 50 Tunisians dead.