Over the next 20 years, the Minamoto clan acquired new strength by offering better guarantees to local landowners and their armies than they could expect from court.
Local landowners were offered better guarantees by the Minamoto clan than by the court.
A few hours after Japan's attack on the American fleet at Pearl Harbor in December 1941, a dozen Japanese battalions began an assault on Hong Kong; Hong Kong's minimal air force was destroyed on the airfield at Kai Tak within five minutes.