Other factors contributed to the tsunami Catastrophe being largely undetected Preventing_or_letting until it was too late and , although a tsunami watch was posted Sending by an American tsunami warning center and a Japanese meteorological center , no information was delivered Sending to people at the coast .

Seeing Russia as a rival , Japan offered Self_motion to recognize Ratification Russian dominance in Manchuria in exchange Exchange for recognition Judgment_communication of Korea as being within the Japanese sphere of influence .

The Japanese government perceived Know a Russian threat to their plans Arranging for expansion Expansion into Asia and chose Choosing to go to war .

After negotiations Communication broke down Process_end in 1904 , the Japanese Navy opened Process_start hostilities by attacking Attack the Russian Eastern Fleet at Port Arthur , China , in a surprise attack Attack .

The complete victory of the Japanese military surprised world observers .

The Mariana and Palau Islands campaign , also known as Operation Forager , was an offensive launched GetReady by United States forces against Imperial Japanese forces in the Mariana Islands and Palau in the Pacific Ocean between June and November 1944 during the Pacific War .

The United States offensive , under the overall command Control of Chester Nimitz , followed the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign and was intended to neutralize Control Japanese bases in the central Pacific , support Supporting the Allied drive to retake the Philippines , and provide Supply bases for a strategic bombing Attack campaign against Japan .

In response , the Imperial Japanese Navy 's Combined Fleet sortied to attack Attack the U.S. Navy fleet supporting the landings .

In the resulting aircraft carrier Battle of the Philippine Sea ( the so-called “ Great Marianas Turkey Shoot ” ) on 19–20 June , the Japanese naval forces were decisively defeated Conquering with heavy and irreplaceable losses Earnings_and_losses to their carrier-borne and land-based aircraft .

The U.S. then constructed airfields on Saipan and Tinian where B-29s were based to conduct strategic bombing missions against the Japanese mainland until the end of World War II , including the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki .

In the meantime , in order to secure Preventing_or_letting the flank for U.S. forces preparing to attack Japanese forces in the Philippines , in September 1944 , U.S. Marine and Army forces landed on the islands of Peleliu and Angaur in Palau .

The PK-AFV `` Pelikaan '' was on a flight from Bandung , Dutch East Indies ( later Indonesia ) , to Broome , Western Australia when it was attacked Attack by Japanese aircraft that were carrying out Action an attack on Broome .

The Japanese military leadership referred to the attack Attack as the Hawaii Operation Military_operation and Operation Military_operation AI , and as Operation Military_operation Z during its planning Arranging .

Additionally , from the Japanese viewpoint Perception_active , it was seen Traveling as a preemptive strike Attack .

The base was attacked Attack by 353 Imperial Japanese aircraft ( including fighters , level and dive bombers , and torpedo bombers ) in two waves , launched Process_start from six aircraft carriers .

The Japanese also sank Motion_directional or damaged Damaging three cruisers , three destroyers , an anti-aircraft training ship Sending , and one minelayer .

Japanese losses Earnings_and_losses were light : 29 aircraft and five midget submarines lost Earnings_and_losses , and 64 servicemen killed Killing .

One Japanese sailor , Kazuo Sakamaki , was captured Conquering .

According to `` Billboard '' , the 2001–02 dates in North America had an average of $ 803,683 in gross Earnings_and_losses and 14,344 in attendance , bringing Bringing a total gross Earnings_and_losses of $ 53,846,761 and 961,048 tickets sold Commerce_sell in 66 shows Social_event , not including the Japanese sold-out show Social_event at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo for 60,000 fans .

The internment Arrest of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War Hostile_encounter II was the forced relocation Removing and incarceration Arrest in concentration camps in the western interior of the country of between 110,000 and 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry , most of whom lived on the Pacific Coast .

The internment Arrest of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War Hostile_encounter II was the forced relocation Removing and incarceration Arrest in concentration camps in the western interior of the country of between 110,000 and 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry , most of whom lived on the Pacific Coast .

Of 127,000 Japanese Americans living in the continental United States at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack Attack , 112,000 resided on the West Coast .

About 80,000 were `` Nisei '' ( literal translation : `` second generation '' ; American-born Japanese with U.S. citizenship ) and `` Sansei '' ( `` third generation '' ; the children of Nisei ) .

Japanese Americans were incarcerated Arrest based on local population concentrations and regional politics .

More than 110,000 Japanese Americans living on the West Coast were forced Request into interior camps .

However , in Hawaii , where 150,000-plus Japanese Americans composed Come_together over one-third of the population , only 1,200 to 1,800 were also interned Arrest .

The internment Arrest is considered to have resulted Causation more from racism than from any security risk posed Causation by Japanese Americans .

Those who were as little as Japanese , orphaned infants , and anyone with—in the words of the architect behind the internment Arrest program , Colonel Karl Bendetsen— '' one drop Motion_directional of Japanese blood '' were placed Placing in the internment Arrest camps .

Those who were as little as Japanese , orphaned infants , and anyone with—in the words of the architect behind the internment Arrest program , Colonel Karl Bendetsen— '' one drop Motion_directional of Japanese blood '' were placed Placing in the internment Arrest camps .

This authority was used Using to declare Expressing_publicly that all people of Japanese ancestry were required Imposing_obligation to leave Departing Alaska and the military exclusion zones from all of California and parts of Oregon , Washington , and Arizona , except for those in government camps .

Approximately 5,000 Japanese Americans relocated Removing outside the exclusion zone before March 1942 , while some 5,500 community leaders had been arrested Arrest immediately after the Pearl Harbor attack Attack and thus were already in custody Arrest .

The majority of nearly 130,000 Japanese Americans living in the U.S. mainland were forcibly relocated Removing from their West Coast homes during the spring of 1942 .

The United States Census Bureau assisted Assistance the internment Arrest efforts by spying Committing_crime and providing Supply confidential neighborhood information on Japanese Americans .

In 1980 , under mounting pressure Influence from the Japanese American Citizens League and redress organizations , President Jimmy Carter opened Process_start an investigation Criminal_investigation to determine Deciding whether the decision Deciding to put Placing Japanese Americans into concentration camps had been justified Justifying by the government .

In 1980 , under mounting pressure Influence from the Japanese American Citizens League and redress organizations , President Jimmy Carter opened Process_start an investigation Criminal_investigation to determine Deciding whether the decision Deciding to put Placing Japanese Americans into concentration camps had been justified Justifying by the government .

The U.S. government eventually disbursed more than $ 1.6 billion ( ) in reparations to 82,219 Japanese Americans who had been interned Arrest and their heirs .

The campaign formed Coming_to_be the initial part of an offensive that the Allies launched Motion in the Pacific in late 1943 and resulted in Causation the Japanese being pushed Motion north from Lae to Sio on the northern coast of New Guinea over the course of a four-month period .

For the Australians , a significant advantage was gained Getting through the technological edge that Allied industry had achieved Achieve over the Japanese by this phase of the war , while the Japanese were hampered Hindering by a lack of supplies and reinforcements due to Allied interdiction efforts at sea and in the air .

For the Australians , a significant advantage was gained Getting through the technological edge that Allied industry had achieved Achieve over the Japanese by this phase of the war , while the Japanese were hampered Hindering by a lack of supplies and reinforcements due to Allied interdiction efforts at sea and in the air .

The Japanese rear guard also put up a stiff defence Defending and , as a result , Lae did not fall Conquering until 16 September , when troops from the 7th Division entered Arriving it ahead of the 9th , and the main body of the Japanese force escaped Escaping north .

The Japanese rear guard also put up a stiff defence Defending and , as a result , Lae did not fall Conquering until 16 September , when troops from the 7th Division entered Arriving it ahead of the 9th , and the main body of the Japanese force escaped Escaping north .

In mid-October , the Japanese launched a counterattack Attack against the Australian beachhead around Scarlet Beach , which lasted for about a week and resulted in Causation a small contraction of the Australian lines and a splitting of their force before it was defeated Conquering .

After this , the Australians regained Recovering the initiative and began Process_start to pursue the Japanese who withdrew Escaping inland towards the high ground around Sattelberg .

Amidst heavy fighting Hostile_encounter and a second failed Japanese counterattack , Sattelberg was secured in late November and the Australians began Process_start an area advance Cause_to_make_progress to the north to secure a line between Wareo and Gusika .

This was completed Process_end by early December , and was followed by an advance Cause_to_make_progress by Australian forces along the coast through Lakona to Fortification Point , overcoming Conquering strong Japanese forces fighting Hostile_encounter delaying Change_event_time actions .

The final stage of the campaign saw the Japanese resistance finally break Destroying .

A lull period then followed in northern New Guinea until July when US forces clashed Hostile_encounter with the Japanese around the Driniumor River .

The Battle Hostile_encounter of the Coral Sea , fought Hostile_encounter from 4–8 May 1942 , was a major naval battle Hostile_encounter between the Imperial Japanese Navy ( IJN ) and naval and air forces from the United States and Australia , taking place Process_start in the Pacific Theatre of World War II .

In an attempt to strengthen Cause_change_of_strength their defensive Defending position in the South Pacific , the Japanese decided Deciding to invade Attack and occupy Control Port Moresby ( in New Guinea ) and Tulagi ( in the southeastern Solomon Islands ) .

It was under the overall Wearing command Control of Japanese Admiral Shigeyoshi Inoue .