Imperial Japanese Reading List
On this page you will be able to purchase (from amazon.com through us!) some good and useful books on the IJA. If you know of a good book we've missed, please let us know!
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Japanese Army of World War II (Men-at-Arms 20) -- Author: Philip Warner, Illustrator: Michael Youens 48 pages; ISBN: 0850451183 This book examines the uniforms, equipment, history and organisation of the Japanese Army during World War II. Uniforms are shown in full colour artwork. |
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The Japanese Army 1931-45, Vol.1--1931-42 (Men-at-Arms 362) --Author: Philip Jowett, Illustrator: Stephen Andrew. 48 pages; ISBN: 1841763535. During Japan's devastating Pacific offensive of 1941/42, the Allies paid a high price for their failure to take seriously an army which had already been fighting in Manchuria and China for ten years. That army was a unique blend of the ancient and the modern and its up-to-date equipment and resourceful tactics served an almost medieval code of unquestioning obedience and ruthless aggression. This first of two titles covers the organisation, equipment, uniforms and character of Japanese ground forces in the Chinese and early Pacific campaigns, illustrated with insignia charts, many rare photographs, and eight meticulous uniform plates. |
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The Japanese Army 1931-45, Vol. 2--1942-45 (Men-at-Arms 369) --Author: Philip Jowett, Illustrator: Stephen Andrew. 48 pages; ISBN: 1841763543. Within months of its greatest triumph in 1942, the Japanese Imperial Army began to face the difficulties which would eventually destroy it -- overstretched supply lines, and inadequate industrial support. Yet as the Allies grew steadily stronger and more skilful, the Japanese Army and Naval Landing Forces dug in to defend their conquests with a determination which shocked all who fought them. In this second book the author describes the deployments, organisation, uniforms and equipment of the Army -- including the dreaded Kempei-tai military police -- the naval infantry, paratroopers, special raiding units, and foreign auxiliaries during the long and savage war in Burma and the Pacific. His text is illustrated with many rare photographs, three insignia charts, and eight highly detailed colour plates. |
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Handbook on Japanese Military Forces -- A manual on the wartime Japanese military, published in 1944 by the US Army for its officers in the Pacific, as an expanded version of the original 1942 manual of the same name. Thoroughly illustrated, this handbook exhaustively details Japan's wartime military system, field organization, tactics, weapons and equipment, uniforms, and more.
While not as comprehensive as its companion volume on the German military forces, it is still the most complete work on the Japanese military you can find in the West. Although prepared by the US War Dept., it is not at all the dry treatise one expects from government printing offices, but a highly readable work encompassing every little detail like tactics, uniform, training, equipment (lots of it) and everything you could possibly want to know. |
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