This is a list of known Japanese operations planned, executed or aborted during the Second World War.
- Operation B 1941 - Japanese invasion of Sarawak, British Borneo
- Operation E 1941 - Japanese invasion of Thailand and Northeast Malaya
- Operation FU 1941 - Japanese invasion of Indochina
- Operation M 1941 - Japanese invasion of the Philippine Islands
- Operation AI 1941 - Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, United States
- Operation AL 1942 - Japanese invasion of the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, United States
- Operation B 1942 - Japanese invasion of Burma
- Operation C 1942 - Japanese reconnaissance and raid operations in the Indian Ocean
- Operation D 1942 - Japanese invasion of the Andaman Islands
- Operation H 1942 - Japanese invasion of Celebes, Ambon and Timor
- Invasion of Celebes (1942)
- Battle of Ambon
- Battle of Timor
- Operation J 1942 - Japanese invasion of Java, Netherlands East Indies
- Operation K 1942 - Japanese reconnaissance and air raid on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, United States
- Operation Ka 1942 - Japanese plan to destroy the American fleet and recapture Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands
- Operation L 1942 - Japanese landing operation in Palembang, Sumatra
- Operation MI 1942 - Aborted Japanese invasion of Midway Island
- Operation MO 1942 - Aborted Japanese invasion of Port Moresby, New Guinea
- Operation R 1942 - Japanese invasion of Rabaul, New Britain and Kavieng, New Ireland
- Operation SR 1942 - Japanese invasion of Lae and Salamaua, New Guinea
- ( Operation ? ) 1942 - Japanese attack along the Kokoda track (New Guinea)
- Operation T 1942 - Japanese invasion of northern Sumatra
- Operation U 1942 - Japanese invasion of Burma
- Operation I 1943 - Japanese air raid against Allied advances on New Guinea and Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands
- Operation KE 1943 - Japanese evacuation of Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands
- Operation KE (Kiska evacuation) 1943 - Japanese evacuation of Kiska, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, United States
- Operation RY 1942 - Japanese invasion of Nauru and Ocean islands
- Operation RO 1943 - Japanese defensive plan against Allied attacks on Rabaul, New Britain
- Operation Ta 1943 - Japanese attack on Bougainville in the Solomon Islands
- Operation Tasumaki 1944 - Japanese attack on Bougainville, Solomon Islands
- Operation A-Go 1944 - Japanese attack of the American fleet off Saipan, Mariana Islands
- Operation Ban-Go 1944 - Japanese defensive operation at the Irrawaddy River in Burma
- Operation Dan-Go 1944 - Japanese operation after the failed operation U-Go offensive in India
- Operation FS 1944 - Japanese cancelled plan to isolate Australia by capturing New Caledonia, Samoa, and Fiji
- Operation Fu-Go 1944 - Japanese aerial bombing of the United States via balloons
- Operation Ha-Go 1944 - Japanese action to isolate and destroy Anglo-Indian forces at Arakan, Burma; precursor to operation U-Go
- Operation Ichi-Go 1944 - Japanese attack in Eastern China to link up Northern China and Indochina
- Operation Kan-Go 1944 - Japanese defensive plan in Southern Burma
- Operation Kon 1944 - Japanese defensive operation on Biak Island, New Guinea
- Operation Sho I 1944 - Japanese attack of the American fleet off Leyte, Philippine Islands; part of operation Sho-Go
- Operation Sho II 1944 - Japanese defence plan for Formosa and the Ryukyu Islands, Japan; part of operation Sho-Go
- Operation Sho III 1944 - Japanese defence plan for Honshū, Japan; part of operation Sho-Go
- Operation Sho IV 1944 - Japanese defence plan for Hokkaido, Japan; part of operation Sho-Go
- Operation Sho-Go 1944 - Japanese defence plan against American advances toward Japan
- Operation Ta 1944 - Japanese attack on American forces at Cape Torokina, Bougainville, Solomon Islands
- Operation TA 1944 - Japanese convoys in and out of the Philippines.
- Operation Take-Ichi 1944 - Japanese convoys to the Doberai Peninsula in Western New Guinea
- Operation To-Go 1944 - Phase one of Japanese attack in Eastern China; part of operation Ichi-Go
- Operation U-Go 1944 - Japanese assault on Imphal and Kohima, India
- Operation Arashi 1945 - Japanese air raid on Ulithi Atoll, Caroline Islands
- Operation Hikari 1945 - Japanese reconnaissance of Ulithi Atoll, Caroline Islands; part of operation Arashi
- Operation Ketsu-Go 1945 - Japanese defence plan against potential American invasion of the Japanese home islands
- Operation Kikusui 1945 - Japanese special attack against American ships off Okinawa, Japan
- Operation Tan 2 1945 - Japanese special attack mission against the Allied anchorage at Ulithi, Caroline Islands
- Operation Ten-Go 1945 - Japanese naval attack against the American fleet off Okinawa, Japan; alternate name of Operation Ten'ichi-Go
- Operation Ken 1945 - Cancelled Japanese operation to use transports to land suicide troops on American airfields in the Mariana Islands
- Operation Kon-Go 1945 - Cancelled Japanese offensive against American ships using manned torpedoes
See also[]
- Japanese expansion (1941-1942)
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