Gempei wars 1180 – 1185

By the 1170s two warrior families, the Minamoto (also called the Genji）and the Taira (also called the Heike......

Battle of the Java Sea (February 27, 1942)

Java Sea was the site of a battle between Japanese forces en route to Java and remnants of the Allied fleet in the Netherlands......

Japanese invasion of Korea in 1592

In 1592, Toyotomi Hideyoshi had decided to conquer Korea on the road to conquering China. The invasion of Korea took place......