Aoba Detachment (Japanese: 青葉支隊) was the reinforced 4th Infantry Regiment/IJA 2nd Division, a part of the Seventeenth Army. The commander of the Aoba...

Division (第2師団, Dai-ni shidan) was an infantry division in the Imperial Japanese Army. Its tsūshōgō was Courageous Division (勇兵団, Isamu-heidan). The 2nd...

Seas Detachment (南海支隊, Nankai Shitai) of the Imperial Japanese Army was a brigade-size force formed in 1941 to be the army unit used in the Japanese seizure...

Pacific War in December 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) was the third most powerful navy in the world, and Japan's naval air service was one of the...

Detachments (支隊, shitai) were particular military formations of the Japanese Imperial Army. Detachments were a force of infantry, artillery, armor, and...

Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) transports: Asakasan Maru, China Maru, Mito Maru, Matsue Maru, Taifuku Maru, Hibi Maru Embarking South Seas Detachment of...

or the Battle of Alligator Creek, was a land battle between the Imperial Japanese Army and Allied ground forces that took place on 21 August 1942, on the...

Zealand from the Allied United States. The plan was developed by the Imperial Japanese Navy and supported by Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the commander-in-chief...

the Japanese for the duration of the Pacific War theater of World War II; the remaining Japanese garrison on the island surrendered to a detachment of...

(Japanese: 伊勢, named after the ancient Ise Province) was the lead ship of her class of two dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy...

the maps or terrain to do so. The main Japanese assault was carried out by the 2nd Battalion of the Aoba detachment and the 1st battalion of the 124th regiment...

received by the Japanese headquarters, it became apparent that Yano's troops would not be able to hold out until the Aoba Detachment could arrive. As...

aircraft carriers (飛鷹型航空母艦, Hiyō-gata kōkūbokan) were built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during World War II. Both ships of the class, Hiyō and...

Salamaua–Lae (8–13 March 1942), called Operation SR by the Japanese, was an operation by Imperial Japanese forces to occupy the Salamaua–Lae area in the Territory...

Coral Sea, from 4 to 8 May 1942, was a major naval battle between the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) and naval and air forces of the United States and Australia...

Ocean and against Western Australia. On 1 March, a Japanese squadron led by the heavy cruiser Aoba and consisting of the heavy cruisers Tone and Chikuma –...

Senkō Yusōtei) was a class of transport submarines built for the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) during World War II. The IJA called them Maru Yu (マルゆ). The...

only major Japanese air operation involving aircraft of both the Imperial Japanese Army and Imperial Japanese Navy takes place, as an Army force of 27...

earning her an invitation to join Sōsō's army. Kyokō (許貢, Xu Gong) Only her name appears, in Go route and is a detachment of Go previously before leaving to...

(Royal Navy). After the Italian armistice of 1943 she served in the Imperial Japanese Navy as Narumi, while after the end of World War II she was used by...