Japanese Occupation Of German Colonial Possessions

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Operation during World War I

Japanese Occupation of German Colonial Possessions

Part of the Asian and Pacific theatre of World War I

German forces during the siege, November 1914
| Date| September - October 1914

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Location|

Qingdao, Kiautschou Bay, German Empire

36°4′N 120°23′E﻿ / ﻿36.067°N 120.383°E﻿ / 36.067; 120.383
Result|  Anglo-Japanese victory
Territorial
changes|  Japanese occupation of Qingdao
Belligerents

* Japan

* Germany

Commanders and leaders

* Mitsuomi Kamio
* Sadakichi Kato

* Alfred Meyer-Waldeck

Strength

* 24,500
* 1 seaplane carrier
* 5 battleships
* 2 battlecruisers
* 1 protected cruiser
* 2 destroyers
* 2 airplanes

* 3,750[1]
* 1 protected cruiser
* 1 unprotected cruiser
* 1 torpedo boat
* 4 gunboats
* 2 airplanes

Casualties and losses

* 727 killed[2]
* 1,335 wounded
* 1 protected cruiser sunk
* 1 destroyer sunk
* 1 battleship damaged
* 1 airplane destroyed

* 199 killed
* 504 wounded
* 3,047 captured
* 1 protected cruiser scuttled
* 1 unprotected cruiser scuttled
* 1 torpedo boat scuttled
* 4 gunboats scuttled

98 Chinese civilians killed and 30 wounded by Japanese forces[3]

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Asian and Pacific theatre of World War I

* Tsingtao
* Samoa
* Fanning
* New Guinea
* Bita Paka
* Toma
* Papeete
* Madras
* Penang
* Coronel
* Cocos
* Singapore
* Más a Tierra
* Central Asia
* Guam

See also: Hindu–German Conspiracy

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Command of the Oceans 1914–1917

* Zanzibar
* Madras
* Papeete
* Tsingtao
* Rufiji Delta
* Penang
* Coronel
* Cocos
* Falklands
* Más a Tierra
* Guam

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Military campaigns of the Empire of Japan

Meiji period

* Taiwan (1874)
* Ganghwa (1875)
* Ryukyu (1879)
* Manchuria, Korea, and Taiwan (1894–1895)
* Liaodong Peninsula (1895)
* China (1899–1901)
* Manchuria and Korea (1904–1905)
* Korea (1910)

Taishō period

* Tsingtao (1914)
* Siberia (1918–1922)

Shōwa period

* Manchuria and Inner Mongolia (1931–1936)
* China (1937–45)
* French Indochina (1940)
* Asia-Pacific (1941–1945)

1. ^ Veperdi 2013. sfn error: no target: CITEREFVeperdi2013 (help)
2. ^ Denis 2000. sfn error: no target: CITEREFDenis2000 (help)
3. ^ Tang, Chi-hua: War Losses and Reparations (China), in: 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War

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