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Japanese Army Kokura Arsenal: with Nambu, manufactured small arms and Machine Guns; Japanese Army Tokyo Arsenal: the Army administrative and testing center related with light and heavy weapons production; Japanese Army Tachikawa Arsenal: dedicated to develop and manufacture aircraft for the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service; Japanese Army ...
Hiroshi Akita Chief of German Section of Japanese Military Intelligence in this period; Masayoshi Yamamoto Led the Matsu Kikan (Pine Tree) Secret Agency, under command of 19th Army, with HQ in Ambon (Dutch Indies) Jinzo Nomoto intelligence officer sent by a unit of the Imperial Japanese Army to Tibet and Sinkiang
The Japanese military before and during World War II committed numerous atrocities against civilian and military personnel. Its surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, prior to a declaration of war and without warning killed 2,403 neutral military personnel and civilians and wounded 1,247 others.
Imperial Japanese Army personnel of World War II (2 C, 125 P) Imperial Japanese Navy personnel of World War II (2 C, 69 P) J. Japanese World War II flying aces (54 P)
For comparison, in 1942, an American private was paid approximately $50 per month (or 204 yen), [51] meaning the lowest ranking soldier in the United States military was earning equivalent to the maximum salary of an Imperial Japanese major, or the base salary of an Imperial Japanese lieutenant colonel, and about 25 times as much as an Imperial ...
Madej, W. Victor, Japanese Armed Forces Order of Battle, 1937-1945 [2 vols] Allentown, PA: 1981; United States War Department (1991) [1944]. Handbook on Japanese Military Forces. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 0-8071-2013-8. The Japanese Mutumi troop encyclopedia 陸 軍 編
Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service (3 C, 18 P) Pages in category "Military units and formations of Japan in World War II" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
These units grouped not only infantry units, but usually included artillery, cavalry or armor, engineer and other support units as well. South Seas Detachment - a brigade-size force formed in 1941 to be the army unit used in the Japanese seizure of the South Pacific island groups of Wake, Guam and the Gilberts.