Kagoshima | Toshima, Kagoshima | Late Heavy Bombardment | Kanoya, Kagoshima | Bombardment of Yeonpyeong | 397th Bombardment Squadron | Yaku, Kagoshima | Nishinoomote, Kagoshima | Hayato, Kagoshima | Fukiage, Kagoshima | ''Bombardment of Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, Charleston, South Carolina, 1863'', William Aiken Walker, 1886, Gibbes Museum of Art | 858th Bombardment Squadron | 681st Bombardment Squadron | 60th Bombardment Squadron | 497th Bombardment Group | 425th Bombardment Squadron | 424th Bombardment Squadron | 422d Bombardment Squadron | 36th Bombardment Squadron | 327th Bombardment Squadron | 29th Bombardment Squadron | 26 May 1945. Corporal Yukio Araki, holding a puppy, with four other pilots of the 72nd ''Shinbu'' Squadron at Kaseda, Kagoshima |
Toward the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate, namely the bakumatsu in which the Shimazu clan played an important role, there have been a chain of events such, bombardment of Kagoshima, also known as the Anglo-Satsuma War (Satsu-Ei Sensō), which took place on 15–17 August 1863 during the Late Tokugawa shogunate, Meiji Restoration(1868), abolition of the han system(1871) and Satsuma Rebellion(1877).
In 1862, in the Namamugi Incident an Englishman was killed by retainers of Satsuma, leading to the bombardment of Kagoshima by the Royal Navy the following year.