Rangarira ndima iri pasi apa uye ipapo pindura mubvunzo gare gare mumutauro mumwe chetewo sechikamu:  Chikamu: Muvhiki rokutanga reHondo Yenyika I Japan yakapa United Kingdom, mubatanidzwa wayo kubvira muna 1902, kuti Japan yaizopinda muhondo kana yaigona kutora nzvimbo dzeGermany dzePacific. Musi wa7 August 1914, hurumende yeBritain yakakumbira Japan kuti ibatsire kuparadza ngarava dzehondo dzeGermany dzaiva mumvura yeChina nemunharaunda dzakapoteredza. Japan yakatumira Germany chikumbiro musi wa 23 Nyamavhuvhu 1914, chisina kupindurwa; Japan yakabva yazivisa hondo kuGermany musi wa 23 Nyamavhuvhu 1914 muzita raMambo Taishō. Sezvo Vienna yakaramba kubvisa ngarava yeAustria-Hungary yainzi SMS Kaiserin Elisabeth kubva kuQingdao, Japan yakazivisa hondo kuAustria-Hungary, zvakare, musi wa25 Nyamavhuvhu 1914. Mauto eJapan akakurumidza kutora nzvimbo dzeGerman muFar East. Musi waSeptember 2, 1914, mauto eJapan akaburukira muruwa rweShandong rweChina ndokukomba musha wechiGermany paTsingtao (Qingdao). Mukati maOctober, vachishanda chaizvoizvo vakazvimirira kuhurumende yavagari vemo, Mauto Emuchadenga eJapane akatora makoroni anoverengeka ezvitsuwa zveGermany muPacific - Mariana, Caroline, uye Marshall Islands - pasina chaizvoizvo kurwisana. Mauto ehondo eJapan akaita kurwisa kwokutanga kwepasi pose kwakatangwa nemauto ehondo pamusoro pevarwi veGermany mupurovhinzi yeShandong uye ngarava muQiaozhou Bay kubva kune inotakura ndege yemvura Wakamiya. Musi wa 6 Gunyana 1914 ndege yemvura yakatangwa naWakamiya haina kubudirira kurwisa ngarava yeAustria-Hungary Kaiserin Elisabeth uye chikepe cheGerman chehondo Jaguar nemabhomba. Kukombwa kweTsingtao kwakapera nekunyorera kwemauto ekoloni yeGerman musi wa 7 Mbudzi 1914.  Mubvunzo: Mauto echikoloni eGermany akakanda mapfumo pasi rini
7 November 1914