Talk:List of wars involving Japan

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Nice start[edit]

Is there some reason why the wars of the first 1,000 years of recorded history aren't included? Boneyard90 (talk) 17:51, 28 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Incomplete[edit]

Either the article should be renamed to only cover recent history, or it needs to be completed. I'm not a historian, but offhand the greatest omissions seem to be:

24.184.172.158 (talk) 10:35, 27 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Biased History[edit]

Judging by the columns "Japan and allies" and "Opponents", I'm guessing this is intended to be a list of wars between Japan as a nation and foreign enemies, which would suggest that civil wars should be excluded. The list starts with the Boshin War, which was a civil war between opposed factions in Japanese governance, with one of them -- the Tokugawa Shogunate, which was the de facto Japanese government since the Sengoku period -- being listed as the "Opponents". This conflict should either be excluded (as a civil war) or described differently than simply by assigning "Japan and allies" status to the winner and "Opponents" status to the loser, especially when the circumstances of the conflict essentially involved a rebel faction overthrowing the established government.

Taking a page from the Incomplete note above, one might similarly resolve the problem by renaming the article to cover only modern imperial and post-imperial government, I suppose. This seems rather arbitrary, though.

- Apotheon (talk) 17:22, 27 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Any experts out there?[edit]

I have done my best to improve this article, but I'm no expert on Japanese history. If there is anyone out there who are able to improve and expand this list further, please don't hesitate to do so. --Mikrobølgeovn (talk) 19:18, 27 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

World War II[edit]

There are some faults with the WWII section. It lists the First Brazilian Republic as a belligerent despite the fact that said Republic ended in 1930. It also lists the start of WWII as 1941 when in fact, it started in 1939. --92.232.49.38 (talk) 15:49, 13 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The dates listed are the dates Japan was involved in the listed wars, not the dates that the wars began and ended. Japan was involved in World War II (not counting their prior involvement in Second Sino-Japanese War) starting in 1941. Also, the table doesn't list the First Brazilian Republic, but instead lists the United States of Brazil, which was the name of Brazil during World War II. The page United States of Brazil is currently a redirect to First Brazilian Republic, which seems problematic since the name United States of Brazil wasn't just used during the First Brazilian Republic. However, that isn't a problem with this page. If you like, you could change United States of Brazil to redirect to something else (such as Brazil), or you could ask at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Brazil for someone to find a better target for the redirect. Calathan (talk) 18:57, 13 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned references in List of wars involving Japan[edit]

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of List of wars involving Japan's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

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From Battle of Amami-Ōshima: "Japan Says a Mystery Boat Fired Rockets at Its Ships". The New York Times. 25 December 2001. Retrieved 13 June 2018.
From Portugal: Jr, Landon Thomas (14 February 2012). "Portugal's Debt Efforts May Be a Warning for Greece". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 August 2017.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 00:45, 8 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Ōei Invasion[edit]

As in the Ōei Invasion page, several accounts and IPs that appear to be sock puppets repeatedly rewrote the Ōei invasion as a victory for Korea in a short period of time. In doing so, they use the record of the Joseon dynasty, which says that "So Sadamori surrendered." However, as B.C.Mayfield (talk · contribs · count) points out in the Talk:Ōei Invasion#January 2021 [1], that is clearly false. Also, in the records of the Joseom dynasty, there are several statements admitting defeat of the army. If you're interested in this, please read Talk:Ōei Invasion#January 2021. It's very detailed and easy to understand.--SLIMHANNYA (talk) 14:51, 18 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The activities of the wokou never stopped even with the Ōei invasion. It was after the Treaty of Gyehae in 1443 that the activities of wokou gradually decreased.[2]--SLIMHANNYA (talk) 15:55, 18 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]