Japanese militarism was the ideology in the Empire of Japan which advocated the belief that militarism should dominate the political and social life of the nation, and the belief that the strength of
Imperial Japanese Navy land forces marching in occupied Nanking, 1937
The Army Ministry, also known as the Ministry of War, was the cabinet-level ministry in the Empire of Japan charged with the administrative affairs of the Imperial Japanese Army. It existed from 1872
Army HQ building, Ichigaya, Tokyo, from 1937–1945