The Imperial Japanese Army was the official ground-based armed force of the Empire of Japan from 1868 to 1945. It was controlled by the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff Office and the Ministry of the Army, both of which were nominally subordinate to the Emperor of Japan as supreme commander of the army and the navy. Read More
The existence of a detailed report documenting the use of chemical weapons by the Imperial Japanese Army in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War has been confirmed for the first time, a Japanese historian has said. ...
