Armed Forces of the Empire of Japan

The Armed Forces of the Empire of Japan during that Empire's existence from the Meiji Restoration in 1868^[1] through the Second World War until the signing of the Constitution of Japan (1868–1947)^[2] included the:

Air forces were divided into the Army Air Service and the Navy Air Service.

References

↑ "One can date the 'restoration' of imperial rule from the edict of 3 January 1868." Jansen, Marius B. (2000). The Making of Modern Japan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. p. 334.
↑ "Chronological table 5 1 December 1946 - 23 June 1947". National Diet Library. Retrieved September 30, 2010.

Empire of Japan

Overview

Emperors

Symbols

Policies

Government

Administration (Ministries)	Imperial Household Home Ministry War Army Navy Treasury Foreign Affairs Agriculture and Commerce Commerce and Industry Munitions Colonial Affairs Greater East Asia East Asia Development Board (Kōain)
Legislative & Deliberative Bodies	Daijō-kan Privy Council Gozen Kaigi Imperial Diet Peers Representatives

Military

Armed Forces	Imperial General Headquarters Imperial Japanese Army General Staff Office Imperial Japanese Navy General Staff Imperial Rescript to Soldiers and Sailors Senjinkun military code Nuclear weapons program Kamikaze War crimes Supreme War Council
Imperial Japanese Army	General Staff Air Service Railways and Shipping Imperial Guard Imperial Way Faction (Kōdōha) Japanese holdout Tōseiha Kenpeitai
Imperial Japanese Navy	General Staff Air Service Land Forces Fleet Faction Treaty Faction

History

Meiji period	Meiji Restoration Boshin War Satsuma Rebellion First Sino-Japanese War Triple Intervention Boxer Rebellion Anglo-Japanese Alliance Russo-Japanese War
Taishō period	World War I Siberian Intervention General Election Law Washington Naval Treaty
Shōwa period	Shōwa financial crisis Jinan Incident London Naval Treaty Pacification of Manchukuo January 28 Incident Anti-Comintern Pact Second Sino-Japanese War Soviet–Japanese border conflicts Tripartite Pact Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact Pacific War Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Soviet–Japanese War Surrender (Potsdam Declaration, Jewel Voice Broadcast) Occupation

Territories

Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere	Karafuto Korea Kwantung Manchukuo South Pacific Taiwan
Occupied territories	Borneo Burma French Indochina Dutch East Indies Hong Kong Malaya Philippines Singapore Thailand

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