Preamble -- 1926-39: The emperor -- 1904-37: Aspirations for empire -- 1937-45: The second Sino-Japanese war -- 1938-45: The Russian threat, the Chinese war and the Burma road -- 1938-41: The path to world war -- August-December 1941: Manipulation and misunderstanding -- December 1941-February 1942: Pearl Harbor, Thailand, Guam, Malaya and Singapore -- December 1941: The Phillipines, Wake island, Hong Kong and Bataan -- 1931-45: Comfort woman -- December 1941-May1942 -- Burma, battles of Ceylon and the Coral Sea -- June-July 1942: The ebb of the tide - The battle of Midway -- 1415-1945: Inconvenient guests and their treatment -- August 1942-February 1943: The Kokoda trail, Guadalcanal, the battle of Savo island and the battle of the Bismarck Sea -- November 1942-3: Food, the Bengal famine and the first Chindit operation -- January-December 1943: Yamamoto, Attu, Casablanca, Cairo, Quebec and Teheran -- April-December 1943: Operation CARTWHEEL, Bougainville and Rahaul -- November 1942-August 1943: Co-prosperity, Tarawa, Makin and Mountbatten -- January 1944: Kwajalein, Roi-Namur, Truk, food and Eniwetok -- February 1944-August 1945: Kohima, Imphal, the second Chindit operation, marauders and the recapture of Burma -- April-July 1944: Hollandia, Aitape, Biak island, mopping up, Saipan and the Marianas 'turkey shoot' -- July-September 1944: Trophies, logistics, Guam, Tinian, Morotai and Peleliu -- October-December 1944: Leyte -- October 1944-August 1945: Kamikaze -- December 1944-March 1945: Mindoro, Luzon and massacre -- February-June 1945: Iwo Jima -- April-June 1945: Okinawa -- 1945 -- Epilogue.
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