Major General Hideki Tojo takes command of the secret police - the Kempeitai.

Strange Stories of WWII, Hiroo Onoda was a Japanese intelligence officer in the Imperial Japanese Army, who refused to ...

The Ki-27 was a single-seater, highly maneuverable, fixed-gear airplane, but it was no match for the Flying Tigers. When one ...

Douglas MacArthur's U.S. Army Forces in the Far East, or USAFFE, had held out for four months against the Imperial Japanese Army, while every other island and nation in the Pacific and Southeast ...

NAHA--Okinawa Prefecture will preserve the remains of the Imperial Japanese Army headquarters that served as a command post beneath Shuri-jo Castle here during the 1945 Battle of Okinawa. As a ...

In fact, getting US troops to take the Imperial Japanese Army seriously was more difficult than some histories of the Pacific war would suggest. The Army research program that almost wasn't The ...

Therefore, the Imperial Japanese Army dug trenches everywhere in town. Japanese soldiers sometimes came to Shimonaiji’s home to use his family's bath. When Shimonaiji played near his home ...

The National Interest now looks at the Nakajima Ki 27, aka the Type 97, which was the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force’s (IJAAF) main fighter until the official start of World War II.