Online dictionary of history and traditions in Japan: war

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Shimabara rebellion

島原の乱天草の乱
alternative words: Amakusa rebellion, Shimabara uprising, Amakusa uprising, Shimabara riot, Amakusa riot
keywords: event , war
related topics: Daimyo , Edo shogunate , Roju
related web sites: http://www.ffortune.net/social/history/nihon-edo/simabara.htm
explanation: Daimyo, Matsukura Katsuie persecuted Christians while imposed a heavy tax. In December 1673, 37,000 peasants in Amakusa Shimabara region shut up themselves at Hara castle with Masuda Tokisada (Amakusa Shiro) as leader. Before a fierce resistance, leader of assailants, Itakura Shigemasa was killed. Edo shogunate then sent 120,000 men with Roju, Matsudaira Nobutsuna as leader. He used a starvation tactic and finally the castle felt April 1674, followed by a slaughter.

Siberian intervention

シベリア出兵
alternative words: Siberian expedition, Shiberia shuppei
keywords: event , war
related topics: Taisho period , Niko incident
related web sites: http://ww1.m78.com/sib/siberian%20expedition.html
explanation: After the revolution, Russia signed a separate treaty with Germany in March 1918. In order to protect Czechslovakian soldiers just liberated, the allied powers asked Japan to sent her troops to Siberia. Owing the important interests in Siberia, Japan sent the largest contingent with 70,000 men but due to the resistance of Bolsheviks, the expedition failed. After the withdrawal of other countries, Japan remained asking the reparation of Niko incident. She evacuated the troops in 1925.

Siege of Osaka castle

大阪の陣大阪冬の陣大阪夏の陣
alternative words: Siege of Osakajo, Osaka no jin, Osaka fuyo no jin, Osaka fuyonojin, Osaka natsu no jin, Osaka natsunojin, Battle of Osaka
keywords: war
related topics: Battle of Sekigahara , Toyotomi Hideyoshi , Sanada Yukimura , Tokugawa Ieyasu , Ronin
related web sites: http://tikugo.cool.ne.jp
explanation: After the battle of Sekigahara, the unique dangerous lord for Tokugawa Ieyasu was Toyotomi Hideyori, a son of Hideyoshi. Under the pretext that he would wish the end of Tokugawa, Ieyasu sent 200,000 men in 1614, while Hideyori shut himself in Osaka castle with a great number of ronin. Understood the castle impregnable, Ieyasu proposed an armistice in exchange of reclaiming the outer moat. But the inner moat being also reclaimed, the castle fell easily in June 1615 and Hideyori killed himself.

Sino-Japanese war

日清戦争
alternative words: Sino Japanese war, China Japan war, Nisshin senso, Nisshinsenso, Nisshin sensou, Nisshinsensou
keywords: china , war
related topics: Meiji period , Shimonoseki treaty , Yamagata Aritomo
related web sites: http://www.geocities.co.jp/Hollywood/8468/nissin.htm , http://www.city.shimonoseki.yamaguchi.jp/kyoiku/shidoka/hurusato/www97/b4_kowa2.htm
explanation: War between China and Japan provoked by a dispute on Korean interests. It began in August 1894 in southern Korea. Before well trained Japanese troops, China showed virtually no resistance and her army had already retreated to southern Manchuria in the October 1894. At the same time the navy lost the battle of Yellow Sea in September 1894. Before this general debacle, China signed the humiliating treaty of Simonoseki in March 1895 and accepted the cession of Taiwan to Japan.

Tongzhou incident

通州事件通州
alternative words: Tsushu incident, Tsushujiken, Tsushu jiken, Tongzhou massacre, Tsushu massacre
keywords: china , event , war
related web sites: http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~KU3N-KYM/tyousa02/tushu5.htm , http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/9246/tongzhou.htm
explanation: On 29 July 1937, hundreds of Japanese civilians were slaughtered at Tsushu (Tongzhou) in the eastern suburb of Peking. The incident was provoked by the militia of pro Japanese Kito (Jidong) government which formed a buffer zone between the mainland China and Manchukuo. By taking advantage of an absence of Japanese troops who went to fight elsewhere, they attacked Japanese civilians and massacred with cruel methods. China recognized the responsibility and paid the reparation.

Zenkunen Gosannen war

前九年・後三年の役前九年の役後三年の役
alternative words: Zenkunen Gosannen disturbance, Zenkunen Gosannen no eki, Zenkunen war, Gosannen war, Zenkunen no eki, Gosannen no eki
keywords: war
related topics: Ezo , Heian period , Genji
related web sites: http://www2.neweb.ne.jp/wc/Otomisan/japanese/histry_j/histry.html , http://www.page.sannet.ne.jp/gutoku2/zenkunennoeki.html , http://maoda.hp.infoseek.co.jp/zenkunen.html
explanation: 2 large wars in Tohoku region during Heian period. Zenkunen war was provoked by Abe no Yoritoki which refused to give the tax collected in his fief. Yamato court sent Minamoto no Yoriyoshi in 1051 to beat him. The disturbance was put down in 1062 with an aid of Kiyohara clan. Gosannen war was provoked by a family quarrel of Kiyohara clan in 1083 and put down by Minamoto no Yoshiie in 1087. After the wars, the eastern Japan became a power base of Genji clan.

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