Japanese Empire

• January 1868: Japanese Empire proclaimed in the South of the country, the north and the center is under Boshin control. Currently Japan owns: Mainland islands, Southern Kurils and has a claim over Sakhalin
• February 1868: Imperial advances around the western coastline
• March 1868: Imperial Forces get closer to Tokio and take the western coastline up to the island
• April 1868: Imperial Forces capture a small island close to Niigata
• May 1868: Imperial Forces cut off Edo and Kanto from the rest of the country
• June 1868: Imperial Forces capture Edo
• October 1868: Imperial Forces siege Aizu (between Edo and Sendai) and capture Sendai
• November 1868: Aizu surrenders to the Imperial Forces and they capture the rest of the main island
• December 1868: Imperial Forces land in the south of Hokkaido but are stopped in the coast
• April 1869: Imperial Forces capture most of Hokkaid but a city in the Southernmost part. They also manage to seize the Southern Kuril islands
• June 1869: The Imperial Forces take full control of the modern Japanese islands
• January 1872: Japan makes the Ryukyu islands vassal territory
• May 1874: Japan occuppies the island of Formosa
• May 1875: Japan occuppies the Kuril islands
• August 1875: Japan officially annexes the Kuril Islands and leaves all claims on Sakhalin
• March 1879: Japan annexes the Ryukyu kingdom
• May 1947: Japan ceaes to be an empire to be a Monarchy