#Japanese Army

[theworldatwar]

Japanese soldiers occupy the oilfields at Yenangyaung - Burma, April 1942

[scrapironflotilla]

Lessons to be learned by Regimental Officers from the Russo-Japanese War, Capt A Barrett, 1907.

Wooden mortars huh. Interesting that he recommended an infantry support mortar a good seven years before WW1. It took until 1915 for the British to get one into production with the Stokes Mortar.

[cid5]

The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) Special Naval Landing Forces troops in gas masks prepare for an advance in the rubble of Shanghai, August 1937, China.

[semioticapocalypse]

A Japanese officer in German-occupied city of Taganrog. Russia. 1942

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Comparison of Service Rifles of Chinese, South Korean, Japanese, And Taiwanese Soldiers

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自衛隊は綺麗に土嚢を積むなぁ

[carbone14]

Moto Rikuo Type 97

[nekobungi]

刀は種類によって抜刀するときの手の向き（刃の向き）が変わるから気をつけようねっていうメモ

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July 26,1944, Balabac Strait - Philippines

Subscriber Content Add content here that will only be visible to your subscribers. Payment 26 July 1944 Balabac Strait – PhilippinesOn her third patrol, the US Navy submarine USS Robalo (SS-273) strikes a mine and rapidly sinks. Four of her crew managed to swim to Palawan Island. One of them is the skipper, Lieutenant Commander Manning Kimmel, the son of Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, commander of…

[theworldatwar]

Three Japanese soldiers wait for their Type 94 light tank to lay a smoke screen before advancing - Burma circa 1943

[scrapironflotilla]

Major Hirotashi asleep in train, Dec 1914.

Found amongst the papers of Major-General Nathaniel Barnardiston. Barnardiston was the Commander of British Forces North China, sent to aid Japan in the capture of Tsingtao from German forces in August 1914.

I'd be interested to know what the writing says if anyone can translate.

[cid5]

Japanese troops guard American and Filipino prisoners in Bataan in the Philippines after their capture on 9th April 1942.

[falseandrealultravival]

The worst general of the Japanese Army, the demon, Renya Mutaguchi (Logistics-8)

There are three important elements for an army that goes to war. Operations, intelligence, and logistics. If we compare this to a weapon called a spear, the tip would be the operation, the handle would be the logistics, and the arm would be the information. Of course, the tip of the spear should be sharp. Also, the handle that controls supply should be long, and the more accurate the information on the arm, the better.

Here, Lieutenant General Renya Mutaguchi commanded the major operation "Imphal Operation" relying only on the tip of the hat. Imphal is a strategic military center in East India, and by securing it, the line for sending supplies from India to China can be cut. However, Mutaguchi was swayed by the Imperial Headquarters, who believed that it was impossible to achieve victory in this operation, but he obtained permission. He, Renya Mutaguchi, was a person with strong assumptions, and he believed that he had caused trouble for the country as a party to the incident at the Marco Polo Bridge, which was the flashpoint of the Sino-Japanese War, so he bet on the Imphal operation.

What Mutaguchi decided to do was to traverse the rugged terrain of Burma (some mountains were over 3,000 meters high) before the rainy season and capture the British and Indian bases in Imphal. And the battle-hardened soldiers easily captured Imphal. However, the reality was the opposite of Mutaguchi's dream. When the rainy season arrived and they were riding up a steep mountain, Lieutenant General Slim of the British army learned of the Japanese army's intention to attack Imphal from reconnaissance by airplane and adopted tactics to draw the Japanese army deeper into the area. Originally, Japan was a military that procured food locally, and some generals ignored logistics, but there was no typical person like Mutaguchi.

This operation was guaranteed to fail from the beginning. Lieutenant General Slim used the previously mentioned "spear" theory of accurately grasping the information of the Japanese army and forcing them into a difficult situation with logistics and was able to gain superiority in both logistics and information and completely siege the Japanese army. Of the 100,000 participants, the Japanese military lost 30,000 dead in action, 20,000 evacuated due to battle wounds and disease, and more than half of the 50,000 remaining soldiers were sick. ...Most of the soldiers were on the verge of life and death. The route along which the Japanese army fled was littered with corpses, and was nicknamed the ``White Bone Highway''. During that time, Lieutenant General Mutaguchi was resting in the safety of the rear and had no words to say. It is said that among the soldiers, he was nicknamed ``Demon Mutaguchi.''

日本陸軍最低の将軍・鬼畜・牟田口廉也（エッセイ）

　戦争をする軍隊に重要な要��が３つあります。作戦、情報、ロジスティックです。これを「槍：やり」という武器になぞらえると、穂先が作戦、柄が兵站、腕が情報となるでしょう。槍の穂先はもちろん鋭いのを良しとします。また補給を司る柄は長いことが良く、腕にあたる情報は正確であればあるほどよい。

　ここに、穂先のみにたよって大作戦「インパール作戦」を指揮したのが、牟田口廉也（むたぐち・れんや）中将です。インパールは、東インドにある軍事の要衝で、ここを確保すればインドから中国に物資を送るラインが切断できます。でも、この作戦は勝利を得ることは不可能とした大本営に牟田口は食い下がり、許可を得てしまいます。彼、牟田口廉也は思い込みの激しいひとで、日中戦争の発火点になった盧溝橋事件での事件発生の当事者として、国に迷惑を掛けたと思っていて、このインパール作戦に賭けました。

　そこで牟田口が取ったのは、雨季前を、険しいビルマ（３０００ｍ級の山もあった）の地形を縦走し、インパールの英・インド基地を奪うというものでした。そして百戦錬磨の兵たちがあっさりとインパールを攻略するというものでした。ところが、現実は牟田口の夢想の逆を行くものでした。雨季になり、険しい山を乗り込んできたとき、イギリス軍のスリム中将は飛行機による偵察により日本軍のインパール攻撃意図を知っていて、さらに奥に日本軍を引き込む戦術を取っていました。もともと日本は食糧は現地調達としている軍隊で、兵站を無視する行動を取る将軍はいましたが、牟田口のように典型的なひとはそうはいません。

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[carbone14]

Soldats japonais en position avec une mitrailleuse Arisaka Type 92 – Guerre sino-japonaise – Nord de la Chine – 1937