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28: 117:, but were returned to Japan in 1958. The 102 numbered volumes of the series include 37 volumes on the Imperial Headquarters, 34 volumes on army campaigns, 21 volumes on navy campaigns, nine volumes about air services campaigns, and one volume of chronology. In 1985 and 1986 two supplemental unnumbered volumes were published. 146:) was translated into English and published as "The Invasion of the South: Army Air Force Operations, and the Invasion of Northern and Central Sumatra" in 2021. These translations focus specifically on the volumes relevant to the study of the Japanese attack on and the subsequent occupation of the former 262:
The translation covers the main text of Vol. 34 of the Senshi Sosho minus the chapters on the Philippines, Malaya, and Burma, as well as chapter 4 of Vol. 5 dealing with northern and central Sumatra. The Articles of Association of the Corts Foundation limit its activities to the area of the former
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The work provides information and details on Japanese organization and operations in the whole Pacific Theater of Operations. Currently, only a limited number of volumes were translated, making it difficult for Western historians who do not read Japanese to make use of the information in western
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from 1937 to 1945. The task of compiling the official account of the Japanese involvement in World War II began in October 1955 with the opening of the War History Office (the present Military History Department of the “National Institute for Defense Studies”, or NIDS, of Japan's
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Dutch East Indies, so we reluctantly had to drop the more detailed chapters on the Philippines, Malaya, and Burma. Nevertheless, the remainder of the book (the general sections and the chapters on Singapore, Palembang, and Java) give a good description of the whole campaign.
174:) of the Senshi sôsho, covering the invasion of Rabaul, the battles along the Kokoda Trail and at Milne Bay, and the destruction of the Japanese forces at Buna, Gona and Giruwa in northern Papua. 432: 447: 109:, other Japanese government records, and personal diaries and records which survived Japan's defeat in the war. Many of the records were initially confiscated by 452: 437: 442: 326: 367: 182:
In December 2018, all updated and corrected volumes became available online at NIDS Library & Historical records Search System.
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The history, comprising 102 volumes, the first of which was published in 1966 and the final one in 1980, was compiled from
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National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS) (January 28, 2009).
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The Army Air Force Operations in the Invasion of the South
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Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway
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September 2018: Publication Second Senshi Sōsho volume
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during the war. The publisher was Asagumo Shimbunsha.
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NIDS Library & Historical records Search System
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Index

Senshi Sōshō

Imperial Japan
Pacific War
Ministry of Defense
Tokyo
Japan
Self-Defense Forces
War Ministry
Imperial Japanese Army
Imperial Japanese Navy
Allied
United States
Dutch East Indies
The Australian War Memorial


The Corts Foundation: September 2015: Publication Senshi Sosho volume
The Corts Foundation: September 2018: Publication Second Senshi Sōsho volume
The Army Air Force Operations in the Invasion of the South
The Australia–Japan Research Project: "Japanese army operations in the South Pacific Area: New Britain and Papua campaigns, 1942–43"
NIDS Library & Historical records Search System
"World War I and the First Amendment of the Imperial Defense Policy"
"Military History Documents at NIDS"
Ministry of Defense (Japan)
the original
Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway
ISBN
1-57488-923-0
"Senshi Sosho"

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