Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: Alaeze Ukwu nke Japan bụ onye ndú nke ike Axis na Pacific Theatre. Ụfọdụ ndị ọkà mmụta na-ewere ntiwapụ nke Agha Secondwa nke Abụọ nke China na Japan, nke malitere mgbe Japan wakporo China mgbe ihe merenụ Marco Polo Bridge na 1937, dị ka mmalite nke Agha Worldwa nke Abụọ. Esemokwu a jikọtara ya na agha ụwa nke sochiri mwakpo Japan wakporo Pearl Harbor na Disemba 1941, nke a na-esochi usoro mwakpo a haziri ahazi na United States na-achịkwa Philippines, Guam na Wake Island; na ndị Britain na-achịkwa
Malaya, Singapore, na Hong Kong; na alaeze Thailand. N'afọ 1942 Japan malitere mwakpo na China, Ndịda Ọwụwa Anyanwụ Eshia, na Pacific Theatres nke agha ahụ. Ka ọ na-erule ngwụsị afọ 1942, Japan nọ na-eche nche ka ndị Allies na-agbanwe ihe ndị ha nwetara na mbụ. Igbu bọmbụ Atọm ndị United States tụrụ na Hiroshima na Nagasaki, tinyere nkwupụta agha nke Soviet Union, mere ka ọchịchị Japan jiri obi ya nile chịlie aka elu na September 2, 1945. A mara ọtụtụ ndị ndú ndọrọ ndọrọ ọchịchị na ndị agha si Japan ikpe maka mpụ agha n'ihu ụlọikpe Tokyo na ụlọikpe ndị ọzọ nke ndị Allied nọ n'Eshia.