Talk:Imperial Japanese Army

message: Is there any way we can get links to the kinds of weapons, small arms, vehicles, etc.
The same way we do for articles on modern armies?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.159.155.147 (talk) 06:07, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Link to weapons? 

message: It is shown only 7500 became POWs after WW2!!,it is ridiculous.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.226.251.217 (talk) 15:16, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  POWs 

message: Shouldn't 'Japanese Army' redirect to the page about the current army of Japan?
And shouldn't this page also have a link somewhere to the page of the modern Japanese Army?
:I've redirected "Japanese Army" to Military of Japan which includes links to both this article and to Japan Self-Defense Forces, Japan's modern equivalent to a military force. I'll add a brief description and link to "Japan Self-Defense Forces" in this article as well.--Cab88 01:02, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  redirect 

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message: The See Also section at the moment includes 22 links. I think that they should be reviewed, the less useful links should be removed and the remaining should be logically grouped. GhePeU 22:41, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Now the links are 29. Way too much, if nobody steps in I'm going to clean up the section. GhePeU 10:07, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: ''See Also'' reordering

message: Failed to summary my edit, but included disambiguation link to Juggling (since International Jugglers' Association is not yet created).  As a juggler, IJA refers to the association.  Google has top hit IJA-> juggle.org --CzarB 04:39, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disambiguation 

message: For a nationalist army, a lot of Chinese, especially from the Tongmenghui seemed able to enlist. Seems ironic. 130.111.98.125 15:40, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  revolutionary immigrants 

message: I find it hard to believe wikipedia users would find casualty pictures acceptable on a page about the military of the United States.
I am puzzled as to why 2 brutal images of fallen Japanese soldiers is appropriate here.
Wkimmerle 18:29, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I see that they have been removed.--209.213.220.227 18:23, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Images 

message: How come only panflets dropped by the allies contained the truth and the planflets distributed among the Japanese Army false? I really think the author is taking sides.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.255.55.107 (talk) 02:10, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Psichological War 

message: I've re-assessed this article as a Start class article for the Military History project as it does not meet the project's criteria for referencing. (Please note the project does not use C class as a rating, so if it is not a B then it must be a C). For a Mil hist B class rating, as a general rule an article requires at least one in-line citation per paragraph, or more if multiple sources are used for a paragraph or multiple contestable points are made (e.g. values, dates, analysis, etc.). I've added a few citations in where I have a source, but only have one book, so if others want to try work on the article adding citations, hopefully it can be built up to a B class. If you wish for a re-assessment, this can be requested at WP:MHA. If you wish for a more in depth review, you might consider a peer view. Cheers. — AustralianRupert (talk) 03:17, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment

message: I think that this article should include information about non-Japanese (Filipinos, Koreans, Manchurians, Taiwanese) people who served in the Japanese Army during WW2.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.69.149.234 (talk) 04:28, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Non-Japanese

message: I would like to raise several points of ambiguity for discussion.  I have refrained from making any changes until I see if there is some consensus on what the paragraph is actually trying to say.
"The reputation of Imperial Army troops during the Pacific War of never surrendering is borne out by the extremely small number captured throughout the entire Pacific campaign compared with their opponents (80,000 British and Commonwealth prisoners were captured at Singapore alone). While the numbers are small by comparison to the European Theatre, in the South West Pacific Area (SWPA) just over 1,000 surrendered in each of 1942 and 1943, around 5,100 in 1944, and over 12,000 in 1945,[17] and might have been greater except for American shooting of prisoners.[18]"
1.)  Exactly what numbers are small by comparison to the European Theatre, the numbers of prisoners or the numbers of combatants engaged and how is that relevant to the issue being discussed?
2.)  While I won't dispute that there are documented instances of American shooting prisoners nor will I dispute that the absolute numbers of captured Japanese personnel would have been higher without them.  I question whether the difference would be significant enough to significantly affect the comparison being made (that of the 80,000 british and commonweath prisoners captured at singapore alone being nearly four times greater than the number of Japanese personnel captured during the entire war) as the statement seems to imply.  If not then it is a best an unnecessary qualification. 
"The effect of psychological warfare was noticeable (about 20% of surrenders were directly due to it, and many more were influenced),[19] amounting to about one POW for every 6,000 leaflets dropped,[20] while the Japanese objected to the "unscrupulous" leaflets,[21] which expressly contained nothing but the truth.[22] This was in stark contrast to IJA's practice of circulating false stories,[15] which leaflets revealed to be false[15] when Army efforts to black out news left the leaflets as the only source of any news.[23]"
3.)  Whose psychological warfare?  The effect of psychological warfare on what?  I propose (assuming my interpretation of the author's intent was correct that the sentence should read something like this: "The effect of American psychological warfare on the numbers of surrendering Japanese troops was noticeable..." Buckfan328 (talk) 22:29, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I've rewritten the paragraph because it contradicts itself. Propaganda leaflet drops being effective versus low numbers of prisoners taken; can't have both. I have reservations also of exclusive single-source attribution to print references (Dower, Gilmore) from the non-Japanese standpoint with regards to this topic. Actually, the entire section is crap, but I'm leery of touching it further at this time because it promises nationalist edit war if it's not done right. I'll return to this article when time permits. Jun Kayama (talk) 07:39, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Final Paragraph Under fanaticism and war crimes is unclear in several places 

message: There should be a section dedidicated to war atrocities of Imperial Japanese Army. The IJA is notorious for committing hideous crimes again humanity. So far I haven't heard any other army in the world that exceeded what IJA had done, not even Nazi Germany.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.238.112.194 (talk) 23:18, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Atrocities of Imperial Japanese Army 

message: Although there are details of several campaigns and other such actions by the Japanese military, there is not very much in the article about how the Japanese military was actually organized. Although I understand it is a tall order, I'd like to suggest that someone with expertise on the matter goes over this article and writes something which is a little bit more informational and a bit less sensational. Wistchars (talk) 01:59, 6 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  More informational and less sensational, please 

message: (大日本帝國陸軍 Dai-Nippon Teikoku Rikugun?), literally "Army of the Greater Japanese Empire" Why is 大 translated with greater, to my knowledge it only means great.80.139.136.67 (talk) 21:50, 20 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Translation 

message: The Japanese had done the bombing of Pearl Harbor in Hawaii during the World War. It is told that this was said to be done by the Imperial Japanese Army. The Captain of this bombing was Mitsou Fuchida. The bombing only lasted two hours long/.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.208.230.193 (talk) 15:05, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Rubbish bordering on TP vandalism.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.111.25.210 (talk) 00:23, 20 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Bombing Of Pearl Harbor During World War 2 

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message: Are the Nanking Massacre, human experimentation by Japan's Unit 731 and the issue of comfort women in Korea by the Japanese military really true? The US Congressional Research Service examined these evidences and found that they could not be substantiated by official documents. It is clear that the investigation conducted by the US government did not uncover a single US government or military document to support claims of war crimes or 'systematic enslavement of women' involving Japanese comfort women. 118.149.85.80 (talk) 23:15, 5 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  War crimes of the Japanese Army.