Imperial Japanese Army

Unit 731 (Japanese: 731部隊 Hepburn: Nana-san-ichi Butai) was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that undertook lethal human experimentation during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) of World War II.

Ōkunoshima (大久野島) is a small island located in the Inland Sea of Japan in the city of Takehara, Hiroshima Prefecture.

The Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) initially purchased foreign tanks for evaluation during World War I, and began developing its own indigenous designs during the late 1920s.

The Japanese Imperial Guard (近衛師団 Konoe Shidan) is an organization which is dedicated to protection of the Emperor of Japan and his family, palaces and other imperial properties.

The Imperial Japanese Army or IJA (大日本帝國陸軍 Dai-Nippon Teikoku Rikugun), literally "Army of the Greater Japanese Empire", was the official ground-based armed force of the Empire of Japan, from 1871 to 1945.

The Japanese 38th Army (第38軍 Dai-sanjyūhachi gun) was an army of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.

The Imperial Japanese Army Air Service (often called the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force (大日本帝國陸軍飛行戰隊 Dainippon Teikoku Rikugun Hikōsentai) (IJAAS or IJAAF), was the land-based aviation force of the Imperial Japanese Army. As with the IJA itself, the IJAAS was developed along the lines of Imperial German Army Aviation so its primary mission was to provide tactical close air support for ground troops while maintaining a limited air interdiction capability. The IJAAS also provided important reconnaissance support for the Army. However, the Army Air Service usually did not control the light aircraft or balloons deployed and operated by the IJA artillery battalions as spotters or observers. Although the Army Air Service engaged in strategic bombing of enemy cities such as Shanghai, Nanking, C

The Military Academy incident (士官学校事件 Shikan Gakko Jiken), also known as the November incident (十一月事件 Juichigatsu Jiken) was an attempted coup d'état that took place in Japan in November 1934.

The Kempeitai (憲兵隊 Kenpeitai, "Military Police Corps") /kɛmpeɪtaɪ/ was the military police arm of the Imperial Japanese Army from 1881 to 1945.

The Japanese 37th Army (第37軍 Dai-sanjyūnana gun) was an army of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.

The Japanese 33rd Army (第33軍 Dai-sanjyūsan gun) was an army of the Imperial Japanese Army during the final days of World War II.

The following is a list of Japanese military equipment of World War II which includes artillery, vehicles and vessels, and other support equipment of both the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA), and Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) from operations conducted from 1937 through 1945.

The 9th Army Technical Research Laboratory (第9陸軍技術研究所 Dai kyū Rikugun Gijutsu Kenkyūjo), also called the Noborito Laboratory (登戸研究所 Noborito Kenkyūjo), was a military development laboratory run by the Imperial Japanese Army from 1937 to 1945.

The tondenhei (屯田兵) were military settler colonists recruited after the Meiji Restoration to develop and defend Japan's northern frontier in Hokkaidō against foreign nations, particularly Imperial Russia.

The 320th division has completed organization 25 July 1945 in Daegu, performing a police duties from Daegu to Seoul.

Lieutenant General Norihide Abe (阿部規秀 Abe Norihide, 1887–1939) was a senior officer in the Imperial Japanese Army.

The World War II Japanese Army Headquarters for the defense of Tonowas, an island in what is now Chuuk State in the Federated States of Micronesia, was located in an underground bunker in the village of Roro.

Kijirō Nambu (南部 麒次郎 Nanbu Kijirō, September 22, 1869 – May 1, 1949) was a career officer in the Imperial Japanese Army and the founder of Nambu Arms Manufacturing Company, manufacturer of many of the firearms the Japanese military would use in World War II.

Hamamatsu Air Base (浜松基地 Hamamatsu-kichi) (ICAO: RJNH) is a Japan Air Self-Defense Force base located 3.

Malik Munawar Khan Awan ( ملک منور خان اعوان ) was a Major rank officer in the Pakistan Army, whose career had begun in the British Indian Army and included spells in the Imperial Japanese Army and the revolutionary Indian National Army that fought against the Allies in World War II where he commanded 2nd INA Guerrilla Battalion during famous Battle of Imphal.