Japanese militarism (日本軍国主義, Nihon gunkoku shugi) was the ideology in the Empire of Japan which advocated the belief that militarism should dominate the...

Militarism is the belief or the desire of a government or a people that a state should maintain a strong military capability and to use it aggressively...

and victory over China in the First Sino-Japanese War and over Imperial Russia in the Russo-Japanese War, Japan joined the Western imperialist powers. The...

rise of militarism in Japan created at least superficial similarities between the wider Japanese military culture and that of Germany. Japan also had...

it is associated with Japanese war crimes, the Axis of World War II, and Japanese militarism and imperialism. The flag of Japan and the symbolism of the...

powerless figurehead or an enabler and supporter of Japanese militarism. The United States opposed Japan's invasion of China and responded with increasingly...

and the Nazi Party; Japanese militarism against China, which led to the Japanese invasion of Manchuria and the Second Sino-Japanese War; Italian aggression...

didn't Japan do us a great favour? This favour was not done by the Japanese Communist Party, but by Japanese militarism. Because the Japanese Communist...

the empire's elite including prime ministers during the period of Japanese militarism were graduates of the college. Supported by influential pro-German...

Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) was the principal ground force of the Empire of Japan. Forming one of the military branches of the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces...