Asia
- Sultanate of Aceh, Alauddin al-Kahar (1539–1571)
- Ahom Kingdom - Suklenmung (1539–1552)
- China (Ming Dynasty) - Jiajing Emperor (1521–1567)
- Jaffna Kingdom - Cankili I (1519–1561)
- Japan (Sengoku period)
- Monarch - Emperor Go-Nara (1526–1557)
- Shogun (Ashikaga) - Ashikaga Yoshiteru (1546–1565)
- Korea (Joseon Dynasty) - Myeongjong (1545–1567)
- Mongolia (Northern Yuan Dynasty) - Darayisung Gödeng Khan, Mongol Khan (1547–1557)
- Mughal Empire - Ibrahim Sur (1545–1555)
- Ryūkyū Kingdom - Shō Sei (1527–1555)
- Sulu Sultanate - Sultan Nasir ud-Din I (1548–1568)
- Vijayanagara Empire - Rama Raya (1542–1565)
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“I believe that the fundamental proposition is that we must recognize that the hostilities in Europe, in Africa, and in Asia are all parts of a single world conflict. We must, consequently, recognize that our interests are menaced both in Europe and in the Far East.”
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“I have no doubt that they lived pretty much the same sort of life in the Homeric age, for men have always thought more of eating than of fighting; then, as now, their minds ran chiefly on the “hot bread and sweet cakes;” and the fur and lumber trade is an old story to Asia and Europe.”
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