Which British territory was captured by the Japanese on Christmas Day 1941?
Japanese declaration of war on the United States and the British Empire Japanese declaration of war on the United States and the British Empire The declaration of war by the Empire of Japan on the United States and the British Empire was published on December 8, 1941 (Japan time; December 7 in the United States), after Japanese forces had executed an attack on the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor and attacks on British forces in Malaya, Singapore, and Hong Kong. The declaration of war was printed on the front page of all Japanese newspapers' evening editions on December 8. The document was subsequently printed again on the eighth day of
Proposed Japanese invasion of Australia during World War II of New Guinea and the Territory of Nauru, which were League of Nations mandates controlled by Australia. The only present-day Australian territory occupied by the Japanese during World War II was Christmas Island, which was a British colony at the time. Japan's success in the early months of the Pacific War led elements of the Imperial Japanese Navy to propose invading Australia. In December 1941 the Navy proposed including an invasion of Northern Australia as one of Japan's 'stage two' war objectives after South-East Asia was conquered. This proposal was most strongly pushed by Captain Sadatoshi Tomioka, the head of