The Imperial Japanese Armed Forces (IJAF, full Japanese: ๅธๅฝ้ธๆตท่ป, romanized: Teikoku riku-kaigun or Nippon-gun (ๆฅๆฌ่ป) for short, meaning "Japanese Forces") were the unified forces of the Empire of Japan. Formed during the Meiji Restoration in 1868, they were disbanded in 1945, shortly after Japan's defeat to the Allies of World War II; the revised...
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