Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Japanese military history task force

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Welcome to the Japanese military history task force. If you have any questions about articles or are generally seeking advice, you're encouraged to ask at the main military history talk page, or you can directly approach one of the task force participants below.

The coordinators of the Military history WikiProject can be contacted here.

Scope
This task force covers all articles related to military history in Japan.

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Participants
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 * 1) Sengoku period, in particular ikki movements
 * 2) World War 2
 * 3) Meiji Restoration onwards
 * 4) (Mostly JSDF units. Will branch out to JSDF weapons/equipment/vehicles)
 * 5) (Edo period, Meiji period)
 * 6) (World War II, U.S.-Japan Alliance)
 * 7) (Japanese castles, esp. Azuchi-Momoyama Period; Imperial Japanese Army; WWII)
 * 8) (World War II Pacific Campaign)
 * 1) (World War II Pacific Campaign)


 * 1) (No particular speciality)
 * 1) (No particular speciality)


 * 1) (Japanese tanks and AFV's of World War II)
 * 2) (Everything pre-Meiji)


 * 1) (Boshin War through Second Sino-Japanese War, Imperial Japanese Army, Imperial Japanese Navy)


 * 1) Domestic Weaponry
 * 2) (World War II)
 * 3) (no particular specialty)
 * 4) (No particular period; can translate stuff in ja wikipedia)
 * 5) Mostly client states, especially Manchukuo.
 * 6) Mostly client states, including Mengjiang, Manchukuo, Nanjing regime (WWII)
 * 7) (No particular specialty)
 * 8) (Modern Japanese weapons, including military projects in development)
 * 9) (Sengoku jidai, Boshin to Second Sino Japanese War, limited editing related to the JSDF, Japan China relations)

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Resources

 * Stephen Turnbull's books, mainly by Osprey Publishing.
 * George Bailey Sansom's three-volume History of Japan
 * The multi-volume Hanshi Daijiten (藩史大辞典) (Edited by Kimura Motoi, et al.), for those willing to wade through and translate from a massive Japanese encyclopedia for data on feudal domains.
 * Samurai-Archives.com
 * Reading Tutor – a very useful website for helping to translate Japanese text.
 * Jim Breen's WWWJDIC – online Japanese dictionary
 * Post WWII US Naval technical mission to Japan reports in PDF format
 * Japanese army operations in the South Pacific Area, translated by Steven Bullard, Australian War Memorial
 * | Handbook on Japanese Military Forces, written by the US Department of War, useful for various aspects regarding the Pacific War