List of Japanese battles

The following is a list of Japanese battles, organised by date.

Ancient/Classical Japan

Jōmon Period

Jimmu's Eastern Expedition

Yayoi Period

Takehaniyasuhiko Rebellion :ja:武埴安彦命
Expedition of Yamato Takeru :ja:ヤマトタケル
Civil war of Wa
Expedition of Empress Jingū :ja:三韓征伐

Kofun period

Goguryeo–Yamato War
Kibi Clan Rebellion
* Prince Hoshikawa Rebellion
Iwai Rebellion
Musashi no Kuni no Miyatsuko Rebellion :ja:武蔵国造の乱

Asuka period

Battle of Shigisan
Isshi Incident 　
North expedition of Abe no Hirafu :ja:阿倍比羅夫
Battle of Baekgang
Jinshin War

Nara Period

Hayato Rebellion
Fujiwara no Hirotsugu Rebellion
Fujiwara no Nakamaro Rebellion
Thirty-Eight Year War
* Hōki Rebellion :ja:宝亀の乱
* Battle of Subuse :ja:巣伏の戦い

Heian Period

Thirty-Eight Year War
* Conquest by Sakanoue no Tamuramaro
* Last Conquest by Funya no Watamaro
Gangyō Rebellion :ja:元慶の乱
Kanbyō Silla pirate invasion :ja:新羅の入寇
Jōhei-Tengyō Rebellion :ja:承平天慶の乱
Fujiwara no Koresuke Rebellion :ja:藤原是助の乱
Toi invasion
Taira no Tadatsune Rebellion :ja:平忠常の乱
Zenkunen War
* Battle of Onikiribe
* Battle of Kinomi
* Siege of Komatsu
* Siege of Koromogawa
* Siege of Kuriyagawa　
Enkyū Battle of Ezo :ja:延久蝦夷合戦
Gosannen War
* Siege of Kanezawa
Minamoto no Yoshichika Rebellion :ja:源義親の乱
Hōgen Rebellion
Heiji Rebellion

[Genpei War] (1179–1185)

Feudal Japan to Early Modern Japan

[Kamakura period]

Battle of Ōshū
Kennin Rebellion
Hatakeyama Shigetada Rebellionja:畠山忠重の乱
Wada Rebellion :ja:和田合戦
Miura Rebellion :ja:宝治合戦
Jōkyū War
* Battle of Uji (1221)
February Incident(1272) :ja:二月騒動

[Mongol Invasions of Japan] (1274 & 1281)

[Genkō War] (1331–1333)

[Muromachi period]

Nakasendai Rebellion :ja:中先代の乱
Civil war of the Kenmu Restoration

[Nanboku-chō period] (1336–1392)

Battle of Tatarahama (1336)
Battle of Minatogawa
Siege of Kanegasaki (1337)
Battle of Ishizu :ja:石津の戦い
Battle of Shijō Nawate
Kannō Incident :ja:観応の擾乱
* Battle of Uchidehama :ja:打出浜の戦い
Battle of Chikugogawa :ja:筑後川の戦い
Ōei Rebellion :ja:応永の乱
Rebellion of Uesugi Zenshū :ja:上杉禅秀の乱
Eikyō Rebellion :ja:永享の乱
Siege of Yūki :ja:結城合戦
Kakitsu Incident :ja:嘉吉の乱
Koshamain's Revolt :ja:コシャマインの戦い

[Kyōtoku Incident] (1455–1482)

Battle of Bubaigawara :ja:分倍河原の戦い(室町時代)
Battle of Irako :ja:五十子の戦い
Nagao Kageharu Rebellion :ja:長尾景春の乱
* Battle of Egota-Numabukurohara :ja:江古田・沼袋原の戦い

[Sengoku period]

[Azuchi–Momoyama period]

Unification by [Oda Nobunaga]

Unification by [Toyotomi Hideyoshi]

Unification by [Tokugawa Ieyasu]

[Edo period]

[Boshin War] (1868–1869)

Modern period

[Meiji period]

[First Sino-Japanese War] (1894–1895)

[Boxer Rebellion] (1899–1901)

[Russo-Japanese War] (1904–1905)

[Japan–Korea Treaty of 1907] (1907)

Namdaemun Battle

Taisho Period

[World War I] (1914–1918)

[Korean independence movement]

Showa Period

[Second Sino-Japanese War] (1931–1945)

1931 — Mukden Incident
1931–32 — Japanese invasion of Manchuria
1931 — Jiangqiao Campaign
1931 — Battle for Nenjiang Bridge
1931–1942 — Pacification of Manchukuo
1931–1932 — Jinzhou Operation
1932 — Battle of Harbin
1932 — First Battle of Shanghai
1932 — Attack on Pingdingshan
1932 — Attack on Fushun
1933 — Battle of the Great Wall
1933 — Battle of Rehe
1933–1936 — Southern Mongolian campaign (1933–36)
1936 — Suiyuan Campaign
1937 — Battle of Pochonbo
1937 — Lugou Bridge Incident
1937 — Battle of Beiping–Tianjin
1937–1945 — Aerial engagements of the Second Sino-Japanese War
1937 — Operation Chahar
1937 — Second Battle of Shanghai
1937 — Peiking–Suiyuan Railway Operation
1937 — Beiping–Hankou Railway Operation
1937 — Tianjin–Pukou Railway Operation
1937 — Battle of Taiyuan
1937 — Battle of Pingxingguan
1937 — Battle of Sihang Warehouse
1937 — Battle of Xinkou
1937 — Battle of Nanking
1938 — Battle of Taierzhuang
1938 — Battle of Xuzhou
1938 — Battle of Northern and Eastern Henan
1938 — Battle of Lanfeng
1938 — Amoy Operation
1938 — Taihoku Air Strike
1938 — Bombing of Chongqing
1938 — Battle of Wuhan
1938 — Battle of Xinfeng
1938 — Battle of Wanjialing
1938 — Canton Operation
1939 — Hainan Island Operation
1939 — Battle of Nanchang
1939 — Battle of Suixian–Zaoyang
1939 — Swatow Operation
1939 — First Battle of Changsha
1939–1940 — Battle of South Guangxi
1939–1940 — Battle of Kunlun Pass
1940 — Battle of West Suiyuan
1940 — Battle of Wuyuan
1940 — Battle of Zaoyang–Yichang
1940 — Hundred Regiments Offensive
1940 — Central Hubei Operation
1941 — New Fourth Army incident
1941 — Western Hubei Operation
1941 — Battle of South Henan
1941 — Battle of Shanggao
1941 — Battle of South Shanxi
1941 — Second Battle of Changsha
1941 — December 1941 Chinese Nationalist guerrilla warfare
1941 — Battle of Hong Kong
1941 — Bombing of Singapore
1941–1942 — Third Battle of Changsha
1942–1945 — South-East Asian theatre of World War II
1942 — 1942 Bombing of Vietnam
1942 — Malayan campaign
1942 — Battle of Singapore
1942 — Battle of Sarimbun Beach
1942 — Battle of Kranji
1942 — Battle of Bukit Timah
1942–1945 — Burma campaign (1942–1945)
1942 — Japanese invasion of Burma
1942 — Battle of the Yunnan–Burma Road
1942 — Battle of Tachiao
1942 — Battle of Oktwin
1942 — Battle of Toungoo
1942 — Battle of Yenangyaung
1942 — Combined Japanese-Thai invasion of the Shan States
1942 — Thai invasion of the Kayah State
1942 — Burma campaign (1942–1943)
1942 — Zhejiang-Jiangxi campaign
1942 — Battle of the Dwarf Mountain
1943 — Operation North of the Yangtze
1943 — Battle of Guangzhouwan
1943 — Battle of West Hubei
1943 — Weinan Campaign
1943 — Linnan Campaign
1943–1945 — Battle of Northern Burma and Western Yunnan
1943 — Battle of Changde
1943 — 1943 Bombing of Vietnam
1943 — 1943 Bombing of Taiwan
1944–1945 — Bombing of South-East Asia (1944–1945)
1944 — Burma campaign (1944)
1944 — Operation Ichi-Go
1944 — Battle of Central Henan
1944 — Siege of Myitkyina
1944 — Fourth Battle of Changsha
1944 — Battle of Mogaung
1944 — Battle of Mount Song
1944 — Battle of Hengyang
1944 — Battle of Guilin–Liuzhou
1944–1945 — Burma campaign (1944–1945)
1945 — Battle of West Henan–North Hubei
1945 — Battle of West Hunan
1945 — 1945 Guangxi campaign

[Soviet–Japanese border conflicts] (1932-1939)

[Invasion of French Indochina] (1940)

1940 Cochinchina uprising

[World War II]

1941

1942

1943

1944

1945

Heisei Period

Battle of Amami-Ōshima