His name was Teruo Nakamura and he had been a private in the Imperial Japanese Army. Now it was December 1974, almost 30 years since the Second World War had ended. But Nakamura was convinced that ...

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 ...

Working together to share military secrets and intelligence, Imperial Japan would benefit greatly from their collaboration with Hitler's Germany. In particular, the Japanese took a great interest ...

On December 22, 1941, the 14 th Japanese Imperial Army, under the command of Lieutenant General Masaharu Homma, landed at Lingayen Gulf in Northern Luzon. The 14 th Army, with approximately 43,000 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At the precipice of World War II, the Arisaka rifle family had become a fixture of the Imperial Japanese Army. Millions of Type 38 and newer, sleeker Type 99 rifles were produced, equipping troops ...

Japanese Commanders ... The invaders who made it to shore would face Imperial Army divisions expected, as always, to fight to the last man. Civilians were recruited to fight alongside the soldiers ...