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	Imperial Guard of Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Imperial Guard of Japan was formed in 1867 from palace guard units and became part of the Imperial Japanese Army when the Emperor Meiji assumed all the powers of the state and formed an army based on European lines during the Meiji Restoration.
		By 1885 the Imperial Japanese Army consisted of seven divisions, one of which was the Imperial Guard, with each division consisted of four regiments of two battalions each.
		The IJA Imperial Guard was dissolved at the end of World War II and was reformed in 1947 as part of the National Police Agency, which itself is part of the National Public Safety Commission.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Imperial_Guard_of_Japan (678 words)

	Encyclopedia: Japan
		Japan (Japanese: 日本, Nihon or Nippon, literally "sun source") is an East Asian country surrounded by the Pacific Ocean, the Sea of Japan, the Philippine Sea, the East China Sea, and the Sea of Okhotsk.
		Japan is sometimes referred to in English as the “land of the rising sun.” Tokyo is the country’s capital and largest city.
		Japan entered the 19th century with a prosperous economy and a strong tradition of centralized rule, but it was isolated from the rest of the world and far behind Western nations in technology and military power.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Japan (1600 words)

	Guard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Royal Horse Guards and Foot Guards Regiments of the Household Division of the Commonwealth armies
		Vanguard (or advanced guard) and Rearguard or rear guard of an army
		A guard is also a railway employee who (normally) travels in the last vehicle of a train and is responsible for the safety of the train itself.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Guard (228 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Imperial Japanese Army
		The Imperial Japanese Army (大日本帝国陸軍 Dai-Nippon Teikoku Rikugun) was the official armed force of Japan from 1867 to 1945.
		The Imperial Japanese Army was created to replace the traditional Japanese samurai with a modern European-style conscript army during the chain of events, known as Meiji Restoration, that led to the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate (bakufu) and the restoring of Imperial rule in Japan.
		The Imperial Japanese Army was initially developed with the assistance of American (post Civil War), then French and finally by German advisors (post Franco-Prussian War); eventually it had grown to become the most modern army in Asia, well-trained, well equipped and high in morale.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Imperial_Japanese_Army (776 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Japan
		On 31 March, 1908, the total population of Japan was 49,092,000 inhabitants; that of Formosa 3,155,005; and that of the Ainus (aborigines) 17,632.
		The seas which surround Japan are the Pacific Ocean on the east, the Sea of Okhotsk on the North, the Sea of Japan on the west, and the China Sea on the south.
		However, popular instruction in Japan is not atheistic; it gives as the basis for private or social morality primitive history or Japanese mythology, which assigns the origin of all things to the gods or ancestors of the country.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/08297a.htm (17760 words)

	Avalanche Press
		The Imperial Guard Division, or Konoe Shidan in Japanese, was one of the Imperial Army’s original formations.
		This made a Guard unit much taller than the average Japanese battalion, but height is not an indicator of physical strength or fitness — and in the nutritional background of the 1930s, possibly even indicates less stamina than a man of average stature.
		The Guard lacked the favoritism of European Guards units or the Nazi equivalent; instead, it was built for its ceremonial functions.
	www.avalanchepress.com /MalayaImperialGuard.php (855 words)

	THE ORGANIZATION OF THE IMPERIAL AND SATSUMA ARMIES
		After the Restoration of 1868, one of the top priorities of the new Imperial government was the formation of a national army under its control.
		The Imperial Guard (most of whom were ex-samurai) was always maintained at war time strength.
		The Imperial guard was assigned to the Tokyo district.
	www.russojapanesewar.com /satsuma.html (866 words)

	Japan The Fujiwara Regency - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International ...
		Stability came to Heian Japan, but, even though succession was ensured for the imperial family through heredity, power again concentrated in the hands of one noble family, the Fujiwara.
		As the Soga had taken control of the throne in the sixth century, the Fujiwara by the ninth century had intermarried with the imperial family, and one of their members was the first head of the Emperor's Private Office.
		Despite their usurpation of imperial authority, the Fujiwara presided over a period of cultural and artistic flowering at the imperial court and among the aristocracy.
	workmall.com /wfb2001/japan/japan_history_the_fujiwara_regency.html (1101 words)

	Hamamatsu Hakujin: Hikikomori and Japanese Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		I think the old guard in Japan (there are a lot more than one might realize and many are in very powerful positions) still have this “inferiority complex” that was born in the Meiji era and was given growth hormones after World War II.
		The old Guard has been unable to overcome this “complex” and feel that if Japan is on the same playing field, it could not measure up to the rest.
		Second Japan must implement a process of teaching critical thinking skills to it's children and encouraging them to think freely and on their own and lose it's old decrepid process of forced conformity and allow some acceptance of individuality.
	realjapan.typepad.com /hamamatsu_hakujin/2004/09/hikikomori_and_.html (913 words)

	Royalty.nu - The History of Japan - Japanese Royalty
		Spiced with sharp sketches of a timid empress, spineless courtiers, and quarrelsome ladies-in-waiting, it reveals the underside of imperial splendor.
		Includes chapters on the duties of an imperial subject, the basis of the imperial state, national institutions, and the imperial destiny.
		War and Responsibility in Japan: The Role of the Emperor and the War Occupation Debates by Kiyohiko Toyama.
	www.royalty.nu /Asia/Japan (2025 words)

	Army National Guard History
		The Guard doubled the size of the Regular Army when it was mobilized in 1940, more then a year before Pearl Harbor, and contributed 19 divisions to that war, as well as numerous other units, to include Guard aviation squadrons.
		The National Guard of the United States (NG US), as a reserve component of the Army of the United States (AUS), was to be an "M-day" (Mobilization Day) force, thoroughly trained, equipped and ready for immediate service to the nation in case of enemy aggression or a national emergency.
		The National Guard of the sever2l states was to provide organizations and personnel for the Reserve (federal) Component, and to preserve peace, order and public safety in their states and during local emergencies.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/army/arng-history.htm (6403 words)

	CNN.com - U.S., U.N. warn on China, Japan - Apr 15, 2005
		Japan's leaders have so far apologized to China on no fewer than 17 occasions since the two nations restored diplomatic ties in 1972, according to The Economist Global Agenda.
		Japan is now also widely regarded as a model nation -- a pacificist democracy that donates large sums of money to the United Nations and the World Bank.
		Japan invaded Manchuria in 1931, and occupied various parts of China until 1945.
	edition.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/asiapcf/04/15/china.japan (834 words)

	The Samurai the warrior class of Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Japan's famous class of samurai warriors was further strengthened by an institution established in 1185 by Minamoto Yoritomo, a few years before he set up the country's first shogunate government.
		During the Tokugawa Shogunate (1600-1867), the hatamoto were direct vassals of the shogun, and their annual revenue was fixed at a minimum of 10,000 bushels of rice.
		Even today, in some rural areas of Japan, the descendants of samurai feudal lords are treated with special respect reminiscent of the Tokugawa Shogunate, which officially ended in 1867.
	victorian.fortunecity.com /duchamp/410/samurai2.html (1152 words)

	Imperial Japanese Navy Japan Alternate History
		The IJN is commanded by the chief of the Naval staff and includes the naval staff office, the Imperial Fleet, seven regional district commands, the air-training squadron, and various support units, such as hospitals and schools.
		The Imperial Navy, headquartered at Yokosuka, is charged with defense of all waters around the Japanese Archipelagoes.
		For Japan, which relies on foreign countries for the supply of almost all energy and food, the influence to national life is quite serious in case that maritime traffic is cut off.
	www.angelfire.com /gundam/japanese_empire/altjap/ijn.htm (678 words)

	ZNet \| Japan \| Boots, Billions, and Blood
		His task was made that much easier by the way it was reported in the United States and to some extent in Europe as well: Japan was being "realistic," "assuming its global responsibilities," shedding its "hypocritical moralism," behaving as a "true partner" of the U.S. Koizumi found himself basking in domestic and international approval.
		Since the end of the Cold War, Japan has contributed a staggering sum in subsidies for imperial America, including more than $70 billion in "support costs" for the American bases in Japan (especially on the island of Okinawa) and another $90 billion in post September 11 "rear support" for the anti-terror coalition.
		If, for the time being, Japan has indeed become a "player" in the American game, there can be no mistaking who the captain and coach of the team is, and no doubting the deadly seriousness of the game.
	www.zmag.org /content/print_article.cfm?itemID=5165§ionID=17 (1807 words)

	Japan's Other Emperor
		The story begins, as most good imperial tales do, long long ago, at the turn of the 14th century, in the twilight of the Kamakura bakufu (military government).
		There briars guard their flanks and the slick trackless wastes deprive their pursuers of bearings, purchase and ferocity.
		He gave the impression that Japan could somehow shift responsibility for all its natural and unnatural disasters over the last 500 years onto a dead emperor's perfidy, and his mortal breach of faith with divinity.
	www.nancho.net /nancho/otheremp.html (4743 words)

	CIA - The World Factbook -- Field Listing - Background (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Imperial Japan occupied East Timor from 1942 to 1945, but Portugal resumed colonial authority after the Japanese defeat in World War II.
		During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Japan became a regional power that was able to defeat the forces of both China and Russia.
		In 1933 Japan occupied Manchuria and in 1937 it launched a full-scale invasion of China.
	www.phatnav.com /factbook/fields/2028.html (16146 words)

	The Sun Also Rises - by William S. Lind
		Since the beginning of the year, Japan has claimed the island of Takeshima, now occupied by South Korea; seized control of an area in the South China Sea also claimed by Beijing; and, most ominously, announced that Tokyo might intervene militarily to defend Taiwan.
		Japan's low-profile, defensive strategy has served her well for more than half a century.
		The mix there is already volatile enough; adding a Japan on the strategic offensive is the equivalent of smoking in the powder magazine.
	www.antiwar.com /lind?articleid=6445 (698 words)

	ZNet \|Japan \| Emperor, Shinto, Democracy:
		Japan, having sent troops to Iraq and accommodated to post 9/11 U.S. strategic planning, has entered a stage that could produce irrevocable alterations in its constitutional provisions and image as a peace state.
		Finally, if Japan is to protect its democratic institutions and rebuild political relations with China and Korea, then public debate over the Security Treaty with the United States must also be reopened, and the historical legacy of that military alliance reassessed to prevent Japan's Pentagon ties from undermining its democratic processes.
		For U.S. political elites seek to perpetuate Japan's energy dependency, limit its diplomatic options, and check its tendency to draw closer to its neighbors in an economic community that could be of benefit to all peoples of the East Asian region.
	www.zmag.org /content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=17&ItemID=8081 (1972 words)

	LST 794 in Japan
		In October and November of 1945, she carried Japanese POW's from Saishu To (also known as Quelpart Island - off the Southern tip of the Korean peninsula) and Taku, China to Sasebo, on the Island of Kyushu.
		Ashore at Sasebo, the crew got a look at some of the people and at some of the destruction that occurred in Japan.
		When the '794 left Sasebo for the last time in November of 1945, bound for Taku, China, she carried over 1000 Chinese citizens being repatriated from Japan.
	home.nycap.rr.com /macminn/Japan/794Japan.html (431 words)

	CNN.com - 22,000 mass in anti-Japanese rally - Apr 16, 2005
		Recent angry anti-Japan protests in China have centered on Japan's approval of history books that downplay its World War II aggression and what China considers Japan's failure to admit atrocities.
		China is also opposed to Japan's gaining a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council, something the country is hoping to do.
		A spokesman for the Japanese embassy in Beijing told CNN protesters in Shanghai were throwing plastic bottles, rocks and tomatoes at the consulate general's office, but did not have any information on damage.
	www.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/asiapcf/04/16/china.japan (926 words)

	eBay - imperial japan, Pottery China, Postcards Paper items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Imperial China Japan Large Oval Platter W Dalton 5303
		Imperial China Japan Litho Scott 86 Dot Variety
		Imperial Gardens of Japan by Takeji Iwamiya, Teiji I...
	search-desc.ebay.com /search/search.dll?query=imperial+japan&newu=1&... (582 words)

	Foreign Affairs - Book Review - The Yamato Dynasty: The Secret History of Japan's Imperial Family - Sterling Seagrave ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Nominally a biography of the Japanese imperial family since the Meiji restoration of 1868, this sensational book really focuses on World War II, especially Emperor Hirohito's complicity in Japanese war plans in China after 1931 and in the Pacific in 1941-45.
		The authors suggest that the extensive loot, mainly gold and gemstones, laid the basis for Japan's remarkable postwar economic recovery.
		The full story of early postwar Japan remains to be told.
	www.foreignaffairs.org /20000901fabook864/sterling-seagrave-peggy-seagrave/the-yamato-dynasty-the-secret-history-of-japan-s-imperial-family.html (300 words)

	Smarter Security for Smaller Budgets: Shaping Tomorrow's Navy and Coast Guard Maritime Security Capabilities
		The Navy and Coast Guard want their ships to be able to make use of each other’s onboard and off-board systems when they find their ships working together in a homeland or overseas operation.
		The Japanese wanted the Coast Guard present primarily to emphasize the law enforcement nature of the exercises, as well as to draw upon the Coast Guard’s unexcelled reputation and skill in boarding, conducting maritime searches, and constabulary duties.
		The Coast Guard and Navy must forge close bonds and blend their respective national elements of maritime power in a collaborative way to meet the nation’s maritime security requirements.
	www.heritage.org /Research/NationalSecurity/hl878.cfm (5562 words)

	Pearl Harbor - Mother of All Conspiracies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		For years Navy planners had assumed that Japan, on the outbreak of war, would strike the American fleet wherever it was.
		DC repeated, no less than three times as a direct instruction of the President, "The US desires that Japan commit the first overt act Period." It was unusual that FDR directed this warning, a routine matter, to Hawaii which is proof that he knew other warnings were not sent.
		FDR was a traitor for maneuvering Japan into war with US - and that is known and admitted - FDR was a traitor for sacrificing American lives, for putting America in danger, for usurping the Constitutional power of Congress to make war.
	www.worldnewsstand.net /msc/Pearl.htm (7720 words)

	Aljazeera.Net - Turning the page in Japan-S Korea ties (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		There is a sense in Japan, however, that the leadership in Seoul is playing to the domestic crowd in pronouncements on the state of the relationship with Tokyo, and consequently, the response from conservative circles in Japan was swift.
		There is a lot more than simply national pride at stake over ownership of the islands, whose surrounding waters are patrolled by the South Korean Coast Guard and which scrambled fighter jets in March when a light aircraft chartered by a Japanese newspaper to take photos of the island approached too close.
		With Japan, China and South Korea among the world's biggest consumers of oil and gas, Seoul is already prospecting for both valuable commodities beneath the seabed close to the islands.
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/A3E85833-DDED-4F47-96D0-5E8B21F67E01.htm (993 words)

	Imperial Japan, a necessary evil? - Stormfront White Nationalist Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		After reading the asian immigration thread, do you believe that Japan of the 30's and 40's was good for Asia?
		Not necessarily good for asia as the Chinese might attest but certainly good for Japan.
		Japan was obtaining needed scarcities and Germany was reuniting lost territories stolen in the Treaty of Versailles when war stumbled out of control.
	www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=209659 (766 words)

	Emory Magazine \| Spring 2004
		Takamori went on to became one of Japan’s most honored warriors, a sentimental favorite of the people for his towering stature (he was six feet tall), courage, charisma, and humility.
		In 1867, at the request of the emperor, Takamori and a group of samurai warriors seized control of the Imperial Palace in Kyoto and restored the Meiji Empire, ending 265 years of rule by the feudalistic Tokugawa shogunate.
		Takamori, who had been given command of the Imperial Guard, Japan’s national army, became dismayed and eventually resigned from the government to return to his native Satsuma, where he opened a military academy for former samurai warriors.
	www.emory.edu /EMORY_MAGAZINE/spring2004/precis_samurai.html (941 words)

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