Imperial Japanese Army Imperial Japanese Military

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2.2 Imperial Japanese Military

Imperial Japanese Military consists of two main components. They were Imperial Japanese Army IJA and Imperial Japanese Navy IJN. Each component had different roles, but either IJA or IJN could not be separated one and another. The explanation of IJN and IJA can be seen in the next subchapters.

2.2.1 Imperial Japanese Army

The first component was the Imperial Japanese Military or IJA. The major duty of Imperial Japanese Army was in charge of the ground operations. Hane 1992: 97 explained that “the new army, however, despite these difficulties, became an established institution, and by 1883 all the men in the army were conscript soldiers. The shizoku eventually came to accept the new system and in fact played a significant role of officers in the new army which was designed after Prussian model.” In line with that, http:en.wikipedia.orgwikiImperial_Japanese_Army stated that: The Imperial Japanese Army IJA Ky ūjitai, Shinjitai, Romaji: Dai-Nippon Teikoku Rikugun, or more officially Army of the Greater Japanese Empire was the official ground based armed force of Imperial Japan from 1867 to 1945. It was controlled by the Imperial Army General Staff Office and the Ministry of War, both of which were nominally subordinate to the emperor as supreme commander of the army and the navy. Later an Inspectorate General of Military Army Aviation, became the third agency with oversight over the army. During wartime or national emergencies, the nominal command functions of the emperor would be centralized in an Imperial General Headquarters IGHQ, an ad-hoc body consisting of the chief and vice chief of the Army General Staff, the minister of war, the chief and vice chief of the Naval General Staff, the inspector general of military aviation, and the inspector general of military training. Indeed, in the Meiji era there was a modernization in his military system. And it is clear that IJA or Imperial Japanese Army had a different role in the IJN or Imperial Japanese Navy, either in the operation fields or operation commander. As stated above,