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what was the name of japan army during second world war
The Imperial Japanese Army was the official ground-based armed force of the Empire of Japan from 1868 to 1945.
how many people were in the japanese imperial army
There were 6,095,000 soldiers in the Japanese Imperial Army in August 1945.

Question: when was the army active
Self-contained rewrite: when was the japanese imperial  army active