Citations:Imperial

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English citations of Imperial

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  • 1991, Robert Haney, Caged Dragons: An American P.O.W. in WWII Japan[1], Sabre Press, →ISBN, page 264:
    It took the Japanese five months to open Manila Bay to their shipping — this at a time when the Imperial invaders were conquering other allied outposts in the Pacific almost at will.
  • 2003, Takemae Eiji, chapter X, in Robert Ricketts, Sebastian Swann, transl., Allied Occupation of Japan[2], New York: Continuum International Publishing Group Inc, published 2002, →ISBN, page 221:
    By February 1945, Imperial armies were in retreat across Southeast Asia.
  • 2004, David Yun, chapter 3, in Dear Humanism[3], New York, →ISBN, page 39:
    It is no longer hearsay about the existence of ‘the sex slave¹⁹’ to the Imperial army of Nippon; its notorious occupation of Korea (1945–the end of the 19ᵗʰ century) reached its height of barbarism, when the Imperial occupation replaced Korean with Japanese as the official language.
  • 2007, Werner Gruhl, chapter VIII, in Imperial Japan’s World War Two: 1931–1945[4], New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, →ISBN, page 63:
    For the Imperial soldiers, surrender was not an option, so rather than be captured their last bullet or grenade was saved for suicide.
  • 2011, Rein Raud, chapter 7, in Rein Raud, editor, Japan And Asian Modernities[5], New York: Routledge, published 2007, →ISBN, page 167:
    This happened while the Imperial armies were still advancing all over East and Southeast Asia and Japanese politicians were proclaiming a new order for the occupied countries, the East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere, in reality an oppressive system based on harsh Japanese domination that was meant to supplant the colonial order of Western powers.
  • 2018, Roger Lotchin, chapter 5, in Japanese American Relocation in World War II: A Reconsideration[6], New York: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 71–2:
    They planned to employ both Nikkei and Imperial businesses and orchestrate the operation through the Japanese consuls. So the Sino Japanese War forced closer local cooperation with Imperial businessmen; they were both tied to the consul, and the consul was leading a spy ring against the United States.