Imperial Japanese Army

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army military branch

The Imperial Japanese Army was the ground-based military force of the Empire of Japan, playing a central role in Japan’s expansion and major conflicts across East Asia and the Pacific during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including World War II.

Aliases (11)

Imperial Japanese Army officer corps ×3
Imperial Japanese Army ground forces ×2
Japanese Army ×2
Japanese Imperial Army ×2
IJA ×1
Imperial Japanese Army (wartime) ×1
Imperial Japanese Army during World War II ×1
Imperial Japanese Army infantry ×1
Imperial Japanese Army leadership ×1
Imperial Japanese infantry ×1
大日本帝国陸軍 ×1

Statements (66)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	army → military branch →
abolishedBy	Allied occupation authorities →
allegiance	Emperor of Japan →
conflict	Attack on Pearl Harbor → Battle of Bataan → Battle of Guadalcanal → Battle of Imphal → Battle of Nomonhan → Battle of Okinawa → Battle of Singapore → First Sino-Japanese War → Invasion of Manchuria → Pacific War → Russo-Japanese War → Second Sino-Japanese War → Soviet–Japanese border conflicts → World War I → World War II →
country	Empire of Japan →
dissolved	1945 →
doctrine	Bushido-influenced military ethos →
era	Meiji period → Shōwa period → Taishō period →
garrison	Tokyo →
headquartersLocation	Tokyo →
inception	1871 →
involvedIn	Bataan Death March → Nanjing Massacre → Unit 731 human experimentation →
legalBasis	Meiji Constitution →
militaryBranch	Imperial Japanese Navy →
motto	Seven Lives for the Country →
nativeName	大日本帝國陸軍 →
notableCommander	Anami Korechika → Ishiwara Kanji → Itagaki Seishirō → Matsui Iwane → Mutaguchi Renya → Tōjō Hideki → Yamagata Aritomo → Yamashita Tomoyuki →
opposedBy	British Army → Chinese Communist forces → Chinese National Revolutionary Army → Soviet Red Army → United States Army →
partOf	Armed Forces of the Empire of Japan →
peakPersonnelStrength	over 6,000,000 →
primaryLanguage	Japanese →
primaryTheater	East Asia → Pacific → Southeast Asia →
role	land warfare →
serviceBranchOf	Imperial Japanese military →
shortName	IJA →
subordinateTo	Imperial General Headquarters →
successor	Japan Ground Self-Defense Force →
symbol	Rising Sun flag with rays →
trainingInfluence	French Army → Prussian Army →
typeOfWarfarePracticed	amphibious operations → jungle warfare → total war →
usedScript	Kanji →

Referenced by (272)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Anami Korechika → Andō Rikichi → Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign → Harukichi Hyakutake → Hata Shunroku → Hideki Tojo → Hisaichi Terauchi → Hyakutake Seikichi → Imperial General Headquarters → Imperial Japanese Army Academy ("Japanese Army") → Isamu Chō → Isamu Yokoyama → Ishiwara Kanji → Isogai Rensuke → Itagaki Seishirō → Iwane Matsui → Japanese 11th Division → Japanese 3rd Division → Japanese 5th Division → Japanese Central China Area Army → Japanese North China Area Army → Jirō Minami → Kiyoshi Katsuki → Kodama Gentarō → Koiso Kuniaki → Masaharu Homma → Matsui Iwane → Minami Jirō → Mitsuru Ushijima → Mutaguchi Renya → Okamura Yasuji → Operation Kogo → Operation Nekka → Otozō Yamada → Prince Asaka Yasuhiko → Rikichi Tsukada → Sakai Takashi → Shojiro Iida → Tadamichi Kuribayashi → Tairiku Datsū Sakusen ("Imperial Japanese Army ground forces") → Tomoyuki Yamashita → Tomoyuki Yamashita → Yamagata Aritomo → Yamanashi Hanzō → Yamashita Tomoyuki → Yoshijiro Umezu → Yoshitsugu Saito → Ōyama Iwao → 山下奉文 →	militaryBranch
29th Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army → 5th War Zone of the National Revolutionary Army → Aleutian Islands campaign → Allied Land Forces → Battle of Kohima → China Burma India Theater → Chinese 71st Army → Chinese 87th Division → Chinese 88th Division → Commander, South Pacific Area → Fourteenth Army → Gordon Bennett → Guomin Gemingjun → Merrill's Marauders → National Revolutionary Army → National Revolutionary Army → National Revolutionary Army 8th Route Army → New Fourth Army → New Guinea campaign → Operation Chronicle → Operation Detachment → Ryukyu Islands campaign → Salween offensive → Satsuma Rebellion → Second United Front → Siege of Myitkyina → South Sakhalin Offensive Operation → Sun Lianzhong → Tang Enbo → U.S. Army Americal Division → United States Army Forces in the Far East → William Slim → Xin Si Jun → Yu Chengwan →	opponent
Admiralty Islands campaign → Battle for Henderson Field → Battle of Cape Gloucester → Battle of Changde → Battle of Changsha → Battle of Iwo Jima → Battle of Malaya → Battle of Nanjing → Battle of Okinawa → Battle of Peleliu → Battle of Shanghai (1937) → Battle of Taierzhuang → Battle of Tarawa → Battle of Toungoo → Battle of Xuzhou → Battle of the Admin Box → Battle of the Tenaru → Defense of the Great Wall → Finisterre Range campaign → Invasion of Guam → Invasion of Rabaul → Invasion of Tinian → Marco Polo Bridge Incident → Nomonhan Incident → Operation Cottage → Siege of Kumamoto Castle → South China theater of the Second Sino-Japanese War → Wuhan campaign →	belligerent
Central China Front → China Expeditionary Army → Imperial Japanese Army 23rd Army → Imperial Japanese Army Air Service → Imperial Japanese Army General Staff → Japanese 10th Division → Japanese 11th Division → Japanese 3rd Division → Japanese 5th Division → Japanese Central China Area Army → Japanese Central China Area Army commanders → Japanese China Garrison Army → Japanese Kwantung Army → Japanese North China Area Army → Tomoyuki Yamashita → Unit 731 →	partOf
Betio → Japanese 11th Division → Mitsubishi Ki-21 → Seven Lives for the Country → Truk Lagoon → Type 38 rifle → Type 99 rifle → Wotje Atoll →	usedBy
Battle of Bataan → Battle of Beiping–Tianjin → Battle of Edson's Ridge → Battle of Manila (1945) ("Japanese Imperial Army") → Battle of Taiyuan → Battle of Wuhan → Battle of the Points →	combatant
Canton Operation → Chinese Nationalist reoccupation of Shanghai → Donghak Peasant Rebellion → Japanese occupation of Guangzhou → Japanese occupation of Manchuria → Operation Togo 1 → Tairiku Datsū Sakusen →	participant
Hu Zongnan → Li Zongren → National Revolutionary Army → Royal Netherlands East Indies Army → Sam Manekshaw → Xue Yue →	foughtAgainst
77th Indian Infantry Brigade → Chindits → Chinese Expeditionary Force → Philippine Commonwealth Army → Special Force →	primaryOpponent
Field Marshal (Imperial Japanese Army) → Imperial Japanese Army Air Service → Kawasaki Ki-45 → Kokusai Ki-59 → Kokusai Ki-76 →	serviceBranch
Imperial Japanese Army 23rd Army → Japanese 10th Division → Japanese 11th Division → Rikichi Tsukada →	allegiance
Bloody Ridge → Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders → Minami Jirō ("Imperial Japanese Army leadership") →	associatedWith
Corregidor → Henderson Field → Hopei–Chahar region →	controlledBy
China Theater → First Sino-Japanese War → South-East Asian theatre of World War II →	involvedForce
Iwane Matsui ("Imperial Japanese Army officer corps") → Mutaguchi Renya ("Imperial Japanese Army officer corps") → Terauchi Masatake →	memberOf
Japanese occupation of Hong Kong → Japanese occupation of North China → Japanese occupation of Singapore →	occupyingForce
Cartwheel → Commander, Allied Land Forces, South West Pacific Area → Operation Forager →	opposedBy
Bataan Death March → Mukden Incident → Nanjing Massacre →	perpetrator
Arthur Percival → Battle of Bataan → Mark Aitchison Young →	surrenderedTo
Manchuria → Near Islands → New Georgia Islands →	wasOccupiedBy
Battle of Ambon → Battle of Hong Kong →	attacker
Imperial Japanese Army 23rd Army → Japanese 10th Division →	branch
Army Minister of Japan → Imperial Japanese Army Academy →	category
Japanese occupation of Guangzhou → Japanese occupation of Shanghai →	occupyingPower
Long Range Penetration Groups → W. D. A. Lentaigne →	operatedAgainst
Downfall → Operation Coronet →	plannedOpposingForce
Central Army of the Kuomintang → Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps →	primaryOpponents
Army Minister of Japan → Ministry of War of Japan →	responsibleFor
Otozō Yamada → Tadamichi Kuribayashi →	servedIn
Mengjiang →	administeredBy
Kawasaki Ki-61 →	airForceBranch
General Order No. 1 →	appliesTo
Army Minister of Japan →	appliesToJurisdiction
Battle of Corregidor (1942) ("Japanese Imperial Army") →	attackingForce
Order of the Golden Kite →	awardingBody
Battle of Singapore →	captor
Dutch East Indies campaign →	capturedBy
Operation Ichi-Go →	commandedBy
Changde →	conflictWith
Burma Railway →	constructedBy
Ministry of War of Japan ("Imperial Japanese Army officer corps") →	controlled
Mount Suribachi →	controlledByDuringWWII
Mitsubishi Ki-67 →	developedFor
Rikusentai ("Imperial Japanese Army infantry") →	distinctFrom
Anami Korechika →	employer
Tenth Air Force ("Japanese Army") →	enemyForcesTargeted
Imperial General Headquarters →	hasAuthorityOver
Battle of Pyongyang →	hasCombatant
Tapani Incident →	hasOpposingForce
Battle of Meiktila and Mandalay ("Imperial Japanese Army ground forces") →	hasOpposingForceType
Armed Forces of the Empire of Japan →	hasPart
Battle of the Pockets →	hasParticipant
V-J Day →	hasToDoWith
Field Marshal (Imperial Japanese Army) ("Imperial Japanese Army (wartime)") →	highestRankIn
Nakajima Ki-27 →	introducedBy
Battle of Guangzhou →	involved
Siege of Port Arthur →	involvedBranch
Philippines campaign (1941–1942) →	involves
Nakajima Ki-27 →	mainFrontlineFighterFor
Yoshitsugu Saito →	militaryAllegiance
Battle of Saipan →	militaryBranchInvolved
Meiji era →	militaryOrganization
Noboru Takeshita →	militaryService
Battle of Guadalcanal →	notableUnit
Japanese occupation of Malaya →	occupier
Battle of Xuzhou →	offensiveActionBy
Imperial Japanese Army Academy →	operatedBy
Nakajima Aircraft Company →	operatedFor
Operation Toenails →	opponentForce
Xiang Ying →	opposedForce
Chinese Communist Party forces →	opposedTo
Taierzhuang →	opposingForceInBattle
Mariana and Palau Islands campaign →	opposingForces
SCAP →	oversawDisarmament
Tokyo Raid →	participants
The Great Raid →	portrays
Japan Ground Self-Defense Force →	precededBy
Kokusai Ki-76 →	primaryUser
Lytton Commission report →	relatedOrganization
Japanese 10th Division →	service
Shojiro Iida ("Imperial Japanese Army during World War II") →	serviceIn
Imperial Japanese Army ("IJA") →	shortName
Interwar period →	significantOrganization
Type 99 rifle →	standardInfantryRifleFor
Type 38 rifle ("Imperial Japanese infantry") →	standardIssue
Imperial Rule Assistance Association →	supportedBy
東條英機 ("大日本帝国陸軍") →	所属軍