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Contents 1 Link to weapons? 2 redirect 3 So which is it? 4 Wikipedia:Naming conventions (military units) 5 See Also reordering 6 Disambiguation 7 revolutionary immigrants 8 Images

[edit] Link to weapons?

Is there any way we can get links to the kinds of weapons, small arms, vehicles, etc. The same way we do for articles on modern armies? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.159.155.147 (talk) 06:07, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] redirect

Shouldn't 'Japanese Army' redirect to the page about the current army of Japan? And shouldn't this page also have a link somewhere to the page of the modern Japanese Army?

I've redirected "Japanese Army" to Military of Japan which includes links to both this article and to Japan Self-Defense Forces, Japan's modern equivalent to a military force. I'll add a brief description and link to "Japan Self-Defense Forces" in this article as well.--Cab88 01:02, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] So which is it?

The article states that "The Imperial Japanese Army was initially developed with the assistance of American (post Civil War), then French and finally by German advisors (post Franco-Prussian War)...". The first time I heard of American advisors was in the Last Samurai movie and I was under the impression that was a problem with the authenticity of the movie (hey its Holywood and a marketing problem). The article "Modernization of Japanese Military 1868-1931" states "The modernization of the Japanese army and navy during the Meiji period (1868-1912) and until the Mukden Incident (1931) was carried out by the newly founded national government, a military leadership that was only responsible to the Emperor and the help of French, English and Prussian military advisors." Any sources regarding the American involvement. At the moment the two articles are not consistant and should be fixed either way. Does anyone know for sure of the initial American involvement. I understood the main reason for switching to the German model from the French was the availability of translators.Peter Rehse 06:32, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

I agree. I personnally do not know of sources on early American military involvement beyond the exceptional early sale of a (French-made) warship such as the Kotetsu in 1869. PHG 08:34, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

I do not have any sources on American involvement in the formation of the Japanese military, but I will state that taking into consideration the very common Japanese pattern in the 1866-1910 period of hiring foreigners -- englishmen, americans, dutch, germans, et cetera -- to pump them for their knowledge and expertise when setting up modern installments, it's not at all unlikely that there were some American military experts involved in one capacity or another.

[edit] Wikipedia:Naming conventions (military units)

Forgive the spam, but I'm trying to round up wikipedians with an interest in international military history to help work out some conventions for the names of military units. If you are interested in that sort of thing, please visit Wikipedia:Naming conventions (military units) and join the discussions on the talk page. — B.Bryant 17:48, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] See Also reordering

The See Also section at the moment includes 22 links. I think that they should be reviewed, the less useful links should be removed and the remaining should be logically grouped. GhePeU 22:41, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

Now the links are 29. Way too much, if nobody steps in I'm going to clean up the section. GhePeU 10:07, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Disambiguation

Failed to summary my edit, but included disambiguation link to Juggling (since International Jugglers' Association is not yet created). As a juggler, IJA refers to the association. Google has top hit IJA-> juggle.org --CzarB 04:39, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] revolutionary immigrants

For a nationalist army, a lot of Chinese, especially from the Tongmenghui seemed able to enlist. Seems ironic. 130.111.98.125 15:40, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Images

I find it hard to believe wikipedia users would find casualty pictures acceptable on a page about the military of the United States.

I am puzzled as to why 2 brutal images of fallen Japanese soldiers is appropriate here.

Wkimmerle 18:29, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

I see that they have been removed.--209.213.220.227 18:23, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

and replaced. I think this is a valid point, is an image of a man with his face shot off really suitable for a encyclopedia? Would an image of a dead american be tolerated on the US Army page? Would this image be suitable for viewing by a child? I think the answer to all three of these questions is no. Chris1012 —Preceding comment was added at 19:44, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Removed pictures of dead as unneeded for this article.--172.164.105.81 23:47, 12 November 2007 (UTC)