Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Pana 23 August 1914, somuuyo wechibvumirano chayo neGreat Britain, Japan yakazivisa hondo kuGermany. MaJapan, pamwe chete neuto reBritain rokufananidzira, akavhara ndokuvhara nyika yeGermany yeKiaochow uye dzimbahwe rayo rokutonga reTsingtao paShandong peninsula. Munguva yekukombwa, kutanga kubva munaGunyana, mana Maurice Farman seaplanes " ((maviri anoshanda uye maviri ekuchengetedza) " ari mubhodhi akaitisa kuongorora uye kurwisa kwepamhepo panzvimbo dzeGerman nengarava. Ndege dzacho dzaiva nemabhomba asina kugadzirwa uye dzaitakura mabhomba matanhatu kusvika kugumi akanga achinjwa achibva pamagora, uye aibudiswa nepamagubhu esimbi kumativi ose edzimba dzomutyairi. Musi wa 5 September, panguva yokutanga kubudirira kushanda, maviri Farman seaplanes akadonhedza mabhomba anoverengeka pamusoro Bismarck bhatiri, huru German masvingo muna Tsingtao. Mabhomba acho akaburuka asina kukuvadza mumatope, asi ndege yacho yakakwanisa kusimbisa kuti yakanga isiri paTsingtao; uku kwaiva kuchenjera kunokosha zvikuru kumukuru wehondo yeAllied. Musi waSeptember 30 "Wakamiya" yakakuvadzwa nemugodhi uye yakazotumirwa kuJapan kuti igadziriswe. Asi ndege dzomumvura, kupfurikidza nokuendeswa kumhenderekedzo yegungwa, dzakapfuurira kushandiswa mukurwisana navadziviriri veGermany kusvikira kugamuchirwa kwavo pana 7 November 1914. "Wakamiya" yakaita kurwisa kwokutanga kwepasi pose kunotangwa nemhepo munhau uye chaizvoizvo yakanga iri ngarava yokutanga inotakura ndege yeImperial Japanese Navy. Pakupera kwokukomba
ndege yacho yakanga yaita hondo 50 uye yakadonhedza mabhomba 200, kunyange zvazvo kukuvadzwa kuzvidziviriro zveGermany kwakanga kuri kuduku.