1.   It was a long and bitter struggle with great losses on both sides, causing a serious weakening of the imperial army.

2.   After defeating Chinese imperial armies in the Opium Wars, Britain imposes the Treaty of Nanking.

3.   Critics point out that Japanese students barely learn about the atrocities committed by the imperial army, but for balance they hardly learn about the atomic bombing, either.

4.   Simla, the largest of the hill stations, was the capital of British India for part of every year and the headquarters of the imperial army.

5.   The pink facade of the former imperial army barracks lies in the center of Pancevo.

6.   The recruitment of men for the imperial armies, so stirringly immortalized in the second act, was often deviously achieved.

7.   Experts said the outcome could boost legal battles waged by other victims of Japanese wartime brutality, including women forced into sexual slavery by the imperial army.

8.   Japan has acknowledged that the imperial army forced women into sexual slavery during the war, but refuses to offer government compensation to victims.

9.   Sung came to Indonesia as a Japanese imperial army soldier during World War II along with thousands of other South Koreans who were forced into fighting for Japan.

10.   A television station speculated that buried chemical ammunitions of the former Japanese imperial army might have been unearthed.