Events in the year 1944 in Japan. Emperor: Hirohito Prime Minister: Hideki Tōjō, until July 22 Kuniaki Koiso, from July 22 Aichi Prefecture: Shinji Yoshino...

on 9 July 1944, Tojo and his cabinet handed in their resignation on 18 July 1944. In August 1944, Japanese troops led by three two-star generals again...

forces of Imperial Japan during the last stages of the Pacific campaign of World War II. The Japan campaign lasted from around June 1944 to August 1945....

of the Philippines from Japan commenced with amphibious landings on the eastern Philippine island of Leyte on October 20, 1944. The United States and Philippine...

islands, in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands. The Zadran tribe rises up against the Afghan government, starting the Afghan tribal revolts of 1944–1947....

casualty rate of any American force in World War II. The Japanese losses, 130 submarines in all, were higher. In mid-1944 Japan mobilized over 500,000 men and...

been crippled. The attacks began in October 1944, at a time when the war was looking increasingly bleak for the Japanese. They had lost several important...

territory, with the Japanese finally retreating from the Battle of Kohima and near simultaneous Battle of Imphal in June 1944. In 1944–45 Japan was under heavy...

Imperial Japan, especially during Operation U-Go in 1944. The INA had earlier collaborated with Nazi Germany. The dominating attitude of the Japanese militarist...

situation in Japan (1914–44) dealt with the realities of the two World Wars and their effect on Japanese national policy. Since the Meiji Period, Japan had...

1944 January February March April May June July August September October November December The following events occurred in July 1944: A counterattack...

December 1944. It consisted of three separate battles in the Chinese provinces of Henan, Hunan and Guangxi. These battles were the Japanese Operation...

The 1944 United States presidential election was the 40th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 7, 1944. The election took...

was a major naval battle of World War II on 19–20 June 1944 that eliminated the Imperial Japanese Navy's ability to conduct large-scale carrier actions...

The year 1944 in film involved some significant events, including the wholesome, award-winning Going My Way plus popular murder mysteries such as Double...

Shān Zhànyì), also known as the Battle of Ramou (拉孟の戦い), in 1944 was part of a larger campaign in southwest China during the Second World War. Chinese Nationalist...

Operation C (ウ号作戦 U Gō sakusen), was the Japanese offensive launched in March 1944 against forces of the British Empire in the northeast Indian regions of Manipur...

for 150 Japanese planes. Sick and useless prisoners were switched with healthier ones out of Manila during construction. On 22 September 1944, half of...

The Empire of Japan, also referred to as the Japanese Empire, Imperial Japan, or simply Japan, was the Japanese nation-state that existed from the Meiji...

campaign against Japan began in earnest in mid-1944 and intensified during the war's last months. While plans for attacks on Japan had been prepared...

November 1944, a United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) F-13 Superfortress conducted the first flight by an Allied aircraft over the Tokyo region of Japan since...

"Japanese Elm") was one of 18 Matsu-class escort destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during World War II. Completed in late 1944, little...

7 mi (11 km) wide strait, from which phosphate was mined.: 13  In mid-1944, the Japanese had 1,400 troops on the island, under the overall command of Palau...

Japan participated in World War II from 1939 to 1945 as a member of the Axis and encapsulates a significant period in the history of the Empire of Japan...

with labor shortages due to World War II. In 1944, the Japanese authorities extended the mobilization of Japanese civilians for labor on the Korean peninsula...

pieces of Japanese-held territory, and also, to destroy airbases in the area which were housing USAAF aircraft. In August, after battles in Hunan and...

Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the final stages of World War II. Completed in late 1944, the ship was assigned to convoy escort duties in January...

the damaging 1854 Tōkai earthquake. List of earthquakes in 1944 List of earthquakes in Japan National Geophysical Data Center / World Data Service (NGDC/WDS):...

the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, see List of active Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force ships and List of combatant ship classes of the Japan Maritime...

June – 8 August 1944 was fought between Chinese and Japanese forces in mainland China during World War II. Although the city fell, Japanese casualties far...