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2000–present
In the real world
- World War II continues to rage across the globe.
January
- 4 January: Masato Shimon is born in Tokyo, Japan.
July
- 8 July: Kensho Yamashita is born in Kagoshima, Japan.
October
- 23-26 October: The Battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval battle of World War II - and by some criteria, the largest naval battle in history - takes place in Leyte Gulf in the Philippines.
- 23 October: Takao, along with two of its three sister ships, Atago and Maya, are engaged by the submarines USS Darter and USS Dace in the Palawan Passage. Atago and Maya are both sunk, while Takao suffers critical damage after being hit by two torpedoes from Darter, forcing it to limp back to Brunei for attempted repairs.
November
- 2 November: Keith Emerson is born in Todmorden, West Riding of Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
December
- 24 December: Katsuhiko Sasaki is born in Tokyo, Japan.
In fiction
- A dying Japanese submariner sends a note in a bottle, giving information about a mysterious island and, possibly, Kong. (King Kong (1976))
- American Air Force fighter pilot Hank Marlow and Japanese fighter pilot Gunpei Ikari crash-land on Skull Island following a dogfight. The two men begin to viciously fight to the death, only to be confronted by a gigantic ape. (Kong: Skull Island)
February
- 6 February: Using MOTHER's subship KIDS, Emmy Kano, the Futurian android M11, Kenichiro Terasawa, Miki Saegusa, and Hironori Mazaki time travel from 1992 to the night of February 6, 1944.
- 7 February: A Godzillasaurus emerges on Lagos Island, where it inadvertently helps the Imperial Japanese army by attacking an American landing force. The dinosaur, however, is terribly injured after being bombarded with cannon fire from several U.S. warships, and is left to die after the Japanese evacuate from the island. Soon after, the time traveling group teleports the dinosaur to the bottom of the Bering Sea in an attempt to prevent Godzilla's creation ten years later. Unfortunately, Emmy intentionally leaves behind three genetically engineered creatures called Dorats who are eventually exposed to radioactivity from the H-bomb test that would have created Godzilla, fusing together into one giant creature called King Ghidorah. (Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah)
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