The Way of the Heavenly Sword This page intentionally left blank T H E W A Y OF T HE H E A V E N LY S W O RD The Japanese Army in the 1920*5 Leonard A. Humphreys STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, STANFORD, CALIFORNIA Stanford University Press Stanford, California © 1995 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University Printed in the United States of America CIP data appear at the end of the book Stanford University Press publications are distrib- uted exclusively by Stanford University Press within the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Central America; they are distributed exclusively by Cambridge University Press throughout the rest of the world. Original printing 1995 Last figure below indicates year of this printing: 04 03 02 01 00 99 98 97 96 To Sally, our children, and our grandchildren