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The Imperial Japanese Army - In contrast to some nations whose standing armies were born from the dissolution of the local nobility’s personal retinues, Japan’s army was born in the office. After the Boshin War concluded, the conscript army that had learned modern western tactics and utilized modern western equipment, went home to their families and didn’t consider that they were going to be part of an organization that demanded years-long service. The new Imperial administration, realizing that their army was heading back to their ploughs and homes, lacked the resources and infrastructure to recruit and train the men in the fashion that the westerners did. Thus, the first budget allocations for the military in Imperial Japanese history were for the construction of offices and practice fields, where that work could be done, and the military could be built from the ground-up. Once built, peasant men looking for work, masterless samurai, veterans of the Boshin War, all stood together on the drill square, and began to form the core of the most effective fighting force in Eastern Asia.