Japan's Imperial Army

by Edward J Drea

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  Japanese-Language Periodicals

  Asakawa Michio. “Ishin kengunki ni okeru Nihon rikugun no yōhei shisō” [Strategic and tactical thought in the Japanese army in its formative period]. Gunji shigaku 38:2 (Sep-tember 2002), 4–19.

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