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Imperial Japanese Army

Army · Japan

The Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) was the principal ground force of the Empire of Japan from 1871 to 1945. It played a central role in Japan's rapid modernization during the Meiji period and fought in the First Sino-Japanese War, the Russo-Japanese War, World War I, the Second Sino-Japanese War, and World War II, becoming a dominant force in Japanese politics. Initially formed from samurai domain armies that overthrew the Tokugawa Shogunate, it evolved into a powerful modern military influenced by French and German models. Notorious for committing widespread war crimes including mass murder, mass rape, and forced labour, it was dissolved after Japan's surrender in 1945; the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force succeeded it as Japan's ground warfare service.

Fought in Second Sino-Japanese War Wikipedia

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People who served 94

Ōyama Iwao Gensui · 1868–present Iwane Matsui General · 1897–1938 Yoshijirō Umezu General · 1903–1945 Yi U Colonel · 1933–present Lee Teng-hui Second lieutenant · 1944–1945 Seiichi Kita General Isamu Chō Lieutenant General Kingorō Hashimoto Colonel Renya Mutaguchi Lieutenant General Kuroki Tamemoto General Tanaka Giichi General Emperor Taishō Dai-gensui Hideki Tojo General Katsura Tarō General Chiang Kai-shek Generalissimo Hisaichi Terauchi General Rikichi Andō General of the Army Tomoyuki Yamashita General Yamagata Aritomo Field Marshal Tadamichi Kuribayashi Lieutenant General Tomiichi Murayama Officer Candidate Saigō Takamori Gensui Kuniaki Koiso General of the Army Nobuyuki Abe General Hirohito Tanzan Ishibashi Sub-lieutenant Senjūrō Hayashi General Nogi Maresuke General Masaharu Homma Lieutenant General Sadae Inoue General Takeichi Nishi Colonel Kōtoku Satō Lieutenant General Akira Mutō Lieutenant General Shizuo Yokoyama Lieutenant General Takaji Wachi Lieutenant General Seiichi Kuno Lieutenant General Prince Arisugawa Taruhito General Kunio Nakagawa Lieutenant General Asaka Yasuhiko General Sōsaku Suzuki General Heisuke Yanagawa Lieutenant General Seishirō Itagaki General Yasuji Okamura General Shunroku Hata Gensui Masakazu Kawabe General Heitarō Kimura General Kuroda Kiyotaka Lieutenant General Otozō Yamada General of the Army Kodama Gentarō General Doihara Kenji General Waichirō Sonobe Lieutenant General Oku Yasukata Marshal Prince Naruhisa Kitashirakawa Colonel Mitsuru Ushijima Lieutenant General Prince Nagahisa Kitashirakawa Major Takahito, Prince Mikasa Major Yoshitsugu Saitō Lieutenant General Morihiro Higashikuni Major Masaomi Yasuoka Lieutenant General Harukichi Hyakutake General Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu Major General Hideyoshi Obata General Shigeru Honjō General Kanji Ishiwara Lieutenant General Michitarō Komatsubara Lieutenant General Prince Tsuneyoshi Takeda Podpolkovnik Prince Tsunehisa Takeda Major General Jirō Tamon Lieutenant General Ōtori Keisuke Hiromichi Yahara Colonel Hayao Tada General Ugaki Kazushige General Kiyonao Ichiki Colonel Yamaguchi Motomi Keiji Suzuki Major General Yamanashi Hanzō General Ijichi Kōsuke Lieutenant General Takurō Matsui Lieutenant General Hatazō Adachi Lieutenant General Hitoshi Imamura General Takuma Nishimura Lieutenant General Tadayoshi Sano Lieutenant General Jun Ushiroku General Rensuke Isogai General Kan'in Kotohito Generalfeldmarschall Takashi Sakai General Kenkichi Ueda General Jirō Minami General Shōjirō Iida Divisional General Tatsumi Naofumi Lieutenant General Ōdera Yasuzumi Major General Kamio Mitsuomi General Shizuichi Tanaka General Hajime Sugiyama General

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