Imperial Japanese Armed Forces

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Imperial Japanese Armed Forces
大日本帝国陸軍/日本軍
Flag of Imperial Japan
Founded	3 January 1868[1]
Disbanded	November 1945
Service branches	IJA IJAAS Kempeitai IJN IJNAS SNLF Tokkeitai
Headquarters	Imperial General Headquarters
Leadership
Emperor of Japan	Meiji (1868–1912) Taishō (1912–1926) Hirohito (1926–1945)
Personnel
Conscription	18–35
Related articles
History	Military history of Japan
Ranks	Army ranks Navy ranks

The Imperial Japanese Armed Forces (IJAF, full Japanese: 帝国陸海軍, romanized: Teikoku riku-kaigun or Nippon-gun (日本軍) by short which by meaning "Japanese Forces") were the unified forces of the Empire of Japan. Formed during the Meiji Restoration in 1868,^[1] they were disbanded in 1945, shortly after Japan's defeat to the Allies of World War II; the revised Constitution of Japan, drafted during the Allied occupation of Japan, replaced the IJAF with the present-day Japan Self-Defense Forces.^[2]

The Imperial Japanese Army and the Imperial Japanese Navy functioned as the IJAF's primary service branches, with the country's aerial power being split between the Army Air Service under the former and the Navy Air Service under the latter.