Historical re-enactments take place regularly across Japan, attracting participants from all walks of life who dress up in imperial army, navy and kamikaze uniforms and wield weapons used to invade ...

in Japan's Imperial Army Drea takes a different tack. Following a discussion of Japan's military institutions before the Meiji Restoration of the 1860s, each chapter is focused on developments during ...

Jiro Akimaru, former Lieutenant Colonel of the Imperial Japanese Army, in 1991. In a 1991 interview about decision-making leading up to the war, Akimaru said that even within the military ...

As diplomatic machinations were unfolding in Europe in 1939, the Imperial Japanese Army unwittingly played the role of trigger to start World War II, according to Stuart Goldman, who has written a ...

NAHA--Okinawa Prefecture will preserve the remains of the Imperial Japanese Army headquarters that served as a command post beneath Shuri-jo Castle here during the 1945 Battle of Okinawa.

This was the first major engagement fought between the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China and the Imperial Japanese Army of the Empire of Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese War.