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  Asia Times Online :: Japan News - Battle over Okinawa history rages on
Such recordings are irksome for the Japanese government that is keen to whitewash this part of history.
Officials explain that the altering of original text that recorded the Imperial Army's instructions to Okinawans to kill themselves is based on the fact that there are divergent views of what exactly happened.
In another cave, more than a thousand occupants were saved because, according to Oshiro, they had disregarded orders from the Imperial Army and walked out waving their hands to signal surrender and were then taken away by the US troops to refugee camps.
www.atimes.com /atimes/Japan/IH07Dh01.html   (869 words)

  
  CalendarHome.com - First Sino-Japanese War - Calendar Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The morale of the Chinese armies was generally very low due to lack of pay and prestige, use of opium, and poor leadership which contributed to some rather ignominious withdrawals such as the abandonment of the very well fortified and defensible Weihaiwei.
The Japanese 2nd Army Corps under Oyama Iwao landed on the south coast Liaodong Peninsula on 24 October and quicky moved to capture Kin-chow and Talienwan on 6-7 November.
The Japanese army allegedly massacred thousands of the city's civilian Chinese inhabitants, in an event that came to be called the Port Arthur Massacre.
encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=First_Sino-Japanese_War   (4040 words)

  
 The Imperial Guard Japan Alternate History
The Imperial Guard is the force in charge of the defense of the Emperor and the Imperial Family, and by extension of the capitol.
The Imperial Guard are not a swift, decisive force like the Imperial Japanese Naval Infantry, instead they are used to bludgeon any attack into the heavily urbanized Tokyo landscape, but the might of the Imperial Guard can be turned to many specialized tasks, from anti-terrorist actions to trench battles, to armoured thrusts, to coastal defense.
Service in the Imperial Guard is a glorious path to tread, where this valiant warriors are ready to lay down their lives for the sake of the Empire, and the honor of the Emperor.
www.angelfire.com /gundam/japanese_empire/altjap/imperial.htm   (407 words)

  
 THE ORGANIZATION OF THE IMPERIAL AND SATSUMA ARMIES
The Imperial guard was assigned to the Tokyo district.
Japanese infantrymen wore a dark blue kepi, a short jacket with French style field pack, and dark blue pants (in summer, the uniform was white).
On its march to Kumamoto Castle, the army was divided into three divisions; an advance guard of 4,000 men, another division of 4,000 men, and a rearguard of 2,000 men.
www.russojapanesewar.com /satsuma.html   (866 words)

  
 Soka Gakkai - VIEWPOINT: Today's Issues--Soka Gakkai Youth Visit China and View Site of the Former Japanese Imperial ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In front of the former headquarters of Unit 731, is a large stone monument inscribed with the words: "Remains of Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army that invaded China." There are 13 rooms inside the hall, incontrovertibly exhibiting the crimes commited by Unit 731.
Japanese army physicians and surgeons took part in cruel and senseless experiments on humans and developed bacteriological weapons that released plague, anthrax and cholera viruses.
There are factions of the Japanese government and society that condone, or even encourage the prime minister and the cabinet to pay homage to the Yasukuni Shrine in utter disregard of the sensibilities of Asian neighbors who suffered atrocities at the hands of Japanese militarism.
www.sokagakkai.info /html3/viewpoint3/today3/sgyouth_china3.html   (1868 words)

  
 The Japanese Army
Any study of the Japanese Army in World War Two, even as cursory an assessment as this, is inevitably influenced by the atrocities carried out under the flag of the Rising Sun.
The Japanese Army had no equivalent of an SS to absorb much of the blame, exonerating the common soldier from guilt.
Japanese did serve with distinction in the US Army, providing I think at least one Infantry Regiment, but it could not stop the demonisation of the Japanese Army in the eyes of the West.
www.bayonetstrength.150m.com /Japanese/japanese_army.htm   (1474 words)

  
 Imperial Japanese Army Uniforms in TutorGig Encyclopedia
'Imperial Japanese Army Uniforms' tended to reflect the uniforms of those countries who were the principal advisors to the Imperial Japanese Army at the that time.
The initial uniform colour was dark blue and resembled that of the Union Army of the American Civil War.
Tunics were piped in yellow for line troops or red for the Imperial Guard, and trouser seams had a wide yellow or red stripe.
www.tutorgig.com /ed/Imperial_Japanese_Army_Uniforms   (1265 words)

  
 Japanese Imperial Army - Hitler's Third Reich and World War Two
Imperial Japanese Army's germ warfare unit planned to stage germ attacks against U.S. troops in Japan just after Japan's surrender in World War II in August 1945, according a memorandum left by the unit's commander, Lt. Gen.
Trooper of the Japanese Imperial Army - Battlefield Kuala Pak Amat
After the war, the three Japanese airmen, together with their surviving comrades from all branches of the Imperial Japanese military were either ignored or shunned by their fellow citizens.
hitlernews.cloudworth.com /japanese-imperial-army-kamikaze-stragglers.php   (1728 words)

  
 Imperial army holdouts emerge | The Japan Times Online
Japanese Embassy officials in Manila headed Friday morning to General Santos City on Mindanao after receiving information from a Japanese the day before that there were two men there claiming to be Imperial army soldiers, a Japanese official who briefed reporters said.
Japanese government sources said the two had contacted a Japanese national who was on the island gathering the remains of Japanese soldiers.
Imperial army intelligence officer Hiroo Onoda, now 83, was found hiding in the jungle on Lubang Island in 1974, about 30 years after being sent to the island.
search.japantimes.co.jp /member/member.html?nn20050528a1.htm   (787 words)

  
 Detour Japan
According to documents of the Imperial Japanese Army, a brigade was stationed in the town at the very end of World War II, preparing for ground assaults by United States troops that never materialized.
The Imperial Army began their study into chemical weapons when it considered dispatching troops to Siberia after the Russian Revolution of 1917.
He says that the chief aim of destroying the Japanese Imperial Army's chemical weapons for the GHQ was to terminate the possibility of the chemical weapons being used against the United States, and was not to guarantee the health and safety of Japanese citizens.
home.att.ne.jp /kiwi/AptNo7/disposed.html   (1319 words)

  
 'Fiendish' Was Not Too Strong a Word - New York Times
The authors show sympathy for the Japanese, acknowledging, for example, that the extraordinary commitment of resources and energy to the army was a virtual necessity, from the inception of the Imperial Army in the 1870's and 1880's well into the 20th century, if Japan was to fend off Western imperialism.
THE record of the Imperial Japanese Army is one of addiction to aggression, exacerbated by its habit of exceeding the instructions of the Government.
They say that the Imperial Army was sufficiently an army of the people that the roots of its conduct must be sought among the Japanese at large.
query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE0D7103BF93AA25757C0A964958260   (636 words)

  
 Burma National Army Summary
The Burma Independence Army (BIA) was the founding armed movement of young Burmese nationalists during World War II and the forerunner of the modern Burma army, or Tatmadaw.
It was originally organised by, and fought alongside the Imperial Japanese Army, but later changed sides and fought alongside the Allies.
Disputes between the BIA and the Japanese military police, the kempeitai were not related to the BIA's excesses against civilians.
www.bookrags.com /Burma_National_Army   (1721 words)

  
 ITALIAN-JAPANESE MP 38/43 MACHINE PISTOL
The Navy requirement was supplemented by the Army’s demand for quantities of the rifles for their troops fitting into their China and Pacific Territories expansion plans and as an apparent interim supply of rifles during the transition of the Army’s production of the Type 38 and Type 99 rifles during this critical period.
Since the Japanese had a commission of inspectors at the various Italian plant locations, and the weapons were inspected and approved prior to shipment, reasons why no Japanese arsenal inspector markings were present.
It was a habit of the Imperial Japanese Navy not to identify small arms with a formal title unless they were of prototype development status or produced in the arsenals or by civilian companies under Government control.
www.dragonsoffire.com /articles_ItalianJapaneseMP.htm   (896 words)

  
 Imperial Japanese Navy Air Force in WWII
The Imperial Japanese Navy Air Force was very conservative and, consequently, many of their operating practices and tactics in World War Two were those which they had adopted from the Royal Navy twenty years before.
After the war, a Japanese woman admitted, "we just couldn't imagine why the Americans were fighting us, here we were extending the divine rule of the Emperor to them[that is, the Americans and their asian allies] and they didn't seem to appreciate it...".
The Imperial Japanese Army Air Force fought with the IJNAF up until about mid-Summer, but then their remaining aircraft in the Home Islands were mostly grounded and kept in reserve against the expected invasion of the Home Islands.
www.combinedfleet.com /ijnaf.htm   (6328 words)

  
 Japanese history: Meiji Period
Universal conscription was introduced, and a new army modelled after the Prussian force, and a navy after the British one were established.
The large expenditures led to a financial crisis in the middle of the 1880's which was followed by a reform of the currency system and the establishment of the Bank of Japan.
A parliament, the Diet was established while the emperor kept sovereignty: he stood at the top of the army, navy, executive and legislative power.
www.japan-guide.com /e/e2130.html   (690 words)

  
 Great Disease Enemy, Kak'ke (Beriberi) and the Imperial Japanese Army, The Military Medicine - Find Articles
Although Japanese military officials had discovered that an improved diet could prevent beriberi by the late 19th century, their soldiers in the army suffered from beriberi during the Russo-Japanese War and World War II.
Soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army suffered much from beriberi (or Kak'ke in Japanese) during the first half of the 20th century.
During the battle of Guadalcanal in 1942, U.S. Army intelligence concluded that of the approximately 37,000 Japanese soldiers deployed, more than one-half of those who had been on the island over 3 months had beriberi.2 These findings are surprising because beriberi is an easily preventable disease by means known to the Japanese military.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3912/is_200604/ai_n16350305   (818 words)

  
 ZNet |Japan | Unit 731 and the Japanese Imperial Army's Biological Warfare Program
Drawing on Japanese military records, this study documents the deaths of 850 victims in the years up to 1943, the largest number infected with plague, cholera, and epidemic hemorrhagic fever.
The unit epitomized the extensive organization for the development of biological weapons within the imperial army, which was referred to, beginning in the late 1930s, as the Ishii Network.
Its establishment is reflected in a memo dated April 23, 1936, entitled "Opinion Regarding the Reinforcement of Military Forces in Manchuria," from the chief of staff of the Kwantung Army to the vice minister of the Ministry of War (contained in the Ministry of War Journal for the army in Manchuria, Rikuman Mitsu-dainikki).
www.zmag.org /content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=17&ItemID=9205   (4154 words)

  
 deseretnews.com | How did WWII stragglers survive?
When the war began, many of these permanent residents were drafted as civilian employees of the army, later fleeing with Imperial Japanese Army troops when U.S. forces made landfall on the island.
While the vicinity around General Santos is a base for commerce for the southern part of the island, it is also the gateway to a terrorist highway through which foreign extremist groups that have close ties with local extremist Islamic groups pass on their way to other areas in which they are active.
According to the health ministry, Imperial Japanese Army soldiers disarmed on battlefields were returned to Japan by the end of the 1950s.
deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,600137462,00.html   (649 words)

  
 Korea Is One: Forcible drafting and forced labor imposed by Japan upon Koreans
The Japanese imperialists drove those Koreans to the shambles of their war of aggression and dreadful places of drudgery as their "soldiers" and "civilian employees for the army" in the past.
The Japanese government is, therefore, obliged to admit its responsibility for the crimes and take practical steps to restore the honor of those victims.
The Japanese right-wing reactionaries falsified historical facts by claiming that those crimes are groundless and those Koreans went to Japan of their own accord.
www.korea-is-one.org /spip.php?article1410   (700 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Soldiers of the Sun: the Rise and Fall of the Imperial Japanese Army: Books: Meirion Harries   (Site not responding. Last check: )
At the core of the paradox lies the code of bushido, the ancient ethos of the samurai that, according to the authors, was perverted by modernizers of the Japanese military into a philosophy that exalted death and violence and taught contempt for the vanquished.
This piece is an outstanding history of the Japanese Army, with a focus on the 20th century.
The key to understanding the development of the Japanese Army from the 30's on was that most of the resources of the country went into the Navy.
www.amazon.ca /Soldiers-Sun-Rise-Imperial-Japanese/dp/0679753036   (2228 words)

  
 Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service at AllExperts
The Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service or Kaigun Koku Hombu was a major force in the Pacific War during World War Two.
The Japanese military acquired their first aircraft in 1910 and followed the development of air combat during World War One with great interest.
The Air Service was controlled by the Navy Staff of the Imperial Japanese Navy and the Navy Ministry.
en.allexperts.com /e/i/im/imperial_japanese_navy_air_service.htm   (788 words)

  
 Imperial Japanese Navy (Nihon Kaigun) - World War II Multimedia Database
With the help of the British, who trained the Japanese to the point that all bridge orders were issued in English, a Japanese fleet was built in the early twentieth century.
The Japanese Mitsubishi Type 00 fighter, codenamed Zeke by the Allies, was faster and more maneuverable than either the US Navy Grumman F4F Wildcat or the British Supermarine Spitfire Mark V. But by 1943, the Japanese would be losing their trained officer core while the Americans were gaining bitter and bloody experience in night fighting.
At the end, it was the submarine that dealt the deathblow to the Imperial Japanese Navy.
www.worldwar2database.com /html/kaigun.htm   (732 words)

  
 35th Support Battalion   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Sixth Arsenal of the Imperial Japanese Army was established in 1935 and later became known as the Sagami Army Arsenal.
The Sixth Arsenal of the Imperial Japanese Army was established 1935 in Sagami under Colonel Ikeda as a branch of the Tokyo First Army Arsenal.
On 12 and 13 December 1942, Japanese mythical Gods Katori and Koshima (Purported to be ancestors of the Emperor) were enshrined.
www.usarj.army.mil /organization/35th/history.htm   (1421 words)

  
 General Hideki Tojo - APIA History
Kwantung Army) in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo, and by 1937 he was chief of staff of that army.
Individual Japanese commanders of the new Rising Sun Empire of Asia would go off on wild hunts to enhance their name after easy conquests unrelated to any overall strategic plan and was categorised as "victory disease" by the Japanese people.
General Tojo was concerned that the Japanese merchant and transport fleets were extended to its limit and the Americans could readily divert their B-17 Flying Fortresses to Sydney to destroy the invading forces.
www.pideltapsi.com /apiahistory/index.php?title=General_Hideki_Tojo&printable=yes   (2490 words)

  
 Great Disease Enemy, Kak'ke (Beriberi) and the Imperial Japanese Army, The Military Medicine - Find Articles
Although Japanese military officials had discovered that an improved diet could prevent beriberi by the late 19th century, their soldiers in the army suffered from beriberi during the Russo-Japanese War and World War II.
Soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army suffered much from beriberi (or Kak'ke in Japanese) during the first half of the 20th century.
During the battle of Guadalcanal in 1942, U.S. Army intelligence concluded that of the approximately 37,000 Japanese soldiers deployed, more than one-half of those who had been on the island over 3 months had beriberi.2 These findings are surprising because beriberi is an easily preventable disease by means known to the Japanese military.
findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3912/is_200604/ai_n16350305   (801 words)

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