History of the End of the Samurai: The Imperial Army - Now that the Boshin War was over, the Meji Emperor could finally settle into the bloodless revolution and start modernizing Japan.
The area is packed with mud, apparently the result of a decision by the Imperial Japanese Army to blow it up when withdrawing. The tunnels constructed between late 1944 and 1945 stretch for about ...
The Japanese drive up the Yangtze River has carried the determined Imperial Army through Shanghai, Nanking and finally, last week, to Hankow (see p. 13). Amid the brutal horrors perpetrated in the ...
But with Japan's regular operations proving no match for the enemy's, the Imperial Japanese Army's aviation unit also followed in the footsteps of the Navy to launch its own suicide attack missions.
alas -- was stovepiped between the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy (IJA and IJN), with no meaningful civilian political oversight. Absent a strong emperor, the army and navy were free to indulge ...
Imperial Japan’s way of war and occupation rivaled the worst of Nazi Germany ... rape and other cruelties of the most inhumane and most barbarous character were freely practiced by the Japanese army ...
We follow 800 Chinese (National Revolutionary Army (NRA)) soldiers who take the last stand for their motherland at the Sihang Warehouse as Japanese soldiers (Imperial Japanese Army), estimated 20,000 ...