Interesting article on Internet attacks on Japanese websites in 2005.
2005: THE YEAR OF THE INTERNET ATTACKS
January 5: Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo targeted, receiving as many as 900,000 hits per minute
February 13: Tokyo metropolitan police announce plans to send officers to train at the US Secret Service’s electronic crimes unit in Los Angeles
February 22-23: The websites of the Cabinet Office and the Prime Minister’s Office crash after an attack. A web-based group called the China Blood and Iron Coalition claims responsibility
April 15: Sony and other Japanese companies in China suffer cyber attacks
April 19: The website of Fujieda city is altered by hackers with messages in Chinese such as “Shameless Japanese pigs, the Chinese people are angry. Boycott Japanese products”
May 1: The website of the Japanese Embassy in Beijing goes down after a huge number of hits
May 14-24: Kakaku.com, Japan’s largest electronics clearing house website, goes down after a cyber attack
5-4-3-2-1: Thunderbirds are go in the Sino-Japanese cyberwars [timesonline.co.uk]