Imperial Japanese Army

November 5, 2016 Period 4 Walter History Day Rough Draft 2016-2017 Emperor Meiji took a stand in history by playing an active role during the prosecution of the Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War, adopting the cabinet system of government for Japan, and issuing an edict that proclaimed the conquest of Korea to Japan. Emperor Meiji’s impact on history was writing the Meiji Constitution, developing the Imperial Diet, having a well-developed transport and communication system, creating his own form of government, and developing a highly educated population free of being limited by their class status. The historical period that Emperor Meiji falls in is during the Edo period, which began in 1603 and ended in 1868. The Edo period…

In the December of 1937, the Japanese Imperial Army marched into China’s capital city, Nanking, and murdered 300,00 out of 60,000 civilians and soldiers (HistoryPlace.com). The six weeks of holocaust is known as the Rape of Nanking. The Japanese were nationalist and they believed their country was the best. The military invasion of Nanking began in the summer of 1937. The resistance of the Chinese made the Japanese outraged. After some time passed by, the Japanese defeated China at Shanghai in…

four Japanese aircrafts. The only battle that the U.S fleet lost was The Battle of Yorktown. In six months of offensives prior to Midway, Japanese had triumphed in lands throughout the Pacific. These lands include Malaysia, Singapore, the Dutch East Indies, and the Philippines and numerous of other island groups. The United States however, was an increasing threat. Japanese Admiral sought to carry out his plan to destroy the U.S. Pacific Fleet before it was large enough to…

wanted to destroy the Japanese empire. After the attack on Pearl Harbor Japan had time to make more of a push in the Pacific. Until 1942 in the Battle of the Midway when a U.S. Naval fleet about destroyed a Japanese fleet which was a major turning point in the war on the Pacific. Which later led to American forces…

engaged the Japanese Imperial fleet in the Battle of Midway. The analysis of the events leading up to the Battle of Midway, the Battle itself, and its Aftermath, all represent just how influential Midway was in the Pacific War. By explaining some of the decisions and discoveries made by the American and Japanese forces, along with showing…

science with the past and present. Mahan sought to exploit naval history to teach lessons in the form of fundamental principles (Paret, 1986). Mahan believed that “war has such principles; their existence is detected by the study of the past, which reveals them in successes and in failures, the same from age to age. Conditions and weapons change; but to cope with the one or successfully wield the others, respect must be had to these constant teachings of history in the tactics of the…

priority to Germany. The Japanese leadership of Admiral Yamamoto, Commander of Japanese Combined Fleet, and Vice Admiral Nagumo, commanding officer of the carriers, wanted to take charge in the Pacific by putting all of their power into taking a small island in the Pacific. The United States Navy was in shambles with the losses at Pearl Harbor and the exhaustion felt after Coral Sea, but the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) had its underestimated depth and morale. The victory…

direction on the part of the Japanese military, and the Imperial Navy in particular, in early 1942. To a large degree, these difficulties stemmed from Japan’s unforeseen success during the first four months of war. By March 1942, Japan had either attained all of her initial objectives or was in sight of doing so.”(19) Japans army and Navy loathed each other; they could not agree nor get along with one another for any reasonable time. This caused several issues with commanded and planning when it…

Japan do not have a good relationship may have caused the attack on Pearl Harbor. “An old order . . . is now crumbling” (Doc A). This quote was from the Japanese novel The Way of the Subjects. It states how serious and focused Japan was about the plans they wanted. Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Japan had two main reasons why they attacked pearl Harbor: one was United States oil, and two was the United States expansion. One reason why Japan attacked Pearl Harbor is because of…

Australia. In source 1, it depicts of a Japanese soldier holding a gun, towering over Australia (Wikipedia, 1942: refer to figure one in appendix). On the top of the poster its states ‘He’s coming south’. ‘He’ represents Japan as there is the Japanese flag in the background and they are heading to Australia to attack. The Japanese soldier appears to be much larger than Australia, which shows that they are much stronger and hold a lot of power over Australia. The soldier is pointing a gun towards…