![]() "Regulations for using the Military Archives ( written in Japanese )" is available at the corner of our reading room.Now you can see Military Archives Introduction on NIDS NEWS. Military Archives News (all in Japanese) Military Archives News has introduced the collection of the Military Archives.The Senshi Sosho totals 102 volumes that consist of 34 volumes on the Imperial General Headquarters, 37 volumes on the Army, 21 volumes on the Navy, nine volumes on the aerial war the Army and one volume of chronology. Senshi Sosho, the War History Series, was compiled by the Military History Department on the history of World War II. Senji Nisshi and Sento Shoho are action reports produced by naval units during the first Sino-Japanese War, the Russo-Japanese War, World War I, the second Sino-Japanese War and World War II. The Kobunbiko is classified into about twenty titles including education, fleet and weapon. Kobunbiko, or Document Files of the Navy Ministry, date from 1876 to 1937. They date from the foundation of the Imperial Army to the end of the war in 1945. Jinchu Nisshi and Sento Shoho are action reports produced by field units. JACAR National Archives of Japan You can see catalogs and documents on the webpage of JACAR, National Archives of Japan.The Rikugunsho Dainikki consists of some twenty titles including Mitsudainikki, Rikushimitsu and Rikumanmitsu. Rikugunsho DainikkiRikugunsho Dainikki, or Document Files of the Army Ministry, is the archive dating from the Meiji Restoration of 1868 to 1942. The following are the principal documents. The collection consists of 58,000 volumes related to the Imperial Army and 38,000 volumes related to the Imperial Navy. Most of them are kept at the Military Archival Library of NIDS.The collection at the NIDS includes the documents returned from the United States along with those kept at the Bureau of Repatriation of the Ministry of Health and Welfare after the war, and others gathered by NIDS itself. ![]() After long diplomatic negotiations to take back the documents from the United States, they were finally returned to Japan in April 1958. The papers that had survived were seized by the Allied Occupation Forces and kept at the U.S. Most of the documents were destroyed by the military at the surrender of Japan in World War II, and the rest were scattered. The National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS) has collected historical documents related to the Imperial Army and Navy, to conduct research on, and compile Japan's military history.
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