in Japan's Imperial Army Drea takes a different tack. Following a discussion of Japan's military institutions before the Meiji Restoration of the 1860s, each chapter is focused on developments during ...

Jiro Akimaru, former Lieutenant Colonel of the Imperial Japanese Army, in 1991. In a 1991 interview about decision-making leading up to the war, Akimaru said that even within the military ...

As diplomatic machinations were unfolding in Europe in 1939, the Imperial Japanese Army unwittingly played the role of trigger to start World War II, according to Stuart Goldman, who has written a ...

(VCG/Getty/Kyodo) BEIJING (Kyodo) -- A Chinese movie featuring the Imperial Japanese Army's notorious Unit 731 is expected to be released in China this summer, according to local media reports ...