Japan

The Empire of Japan  was the political entity that spread through the Japanese nation that existed during the period from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 until the Japanese defeat of World War II in 1945.

The country's rapid industrialization and militarization led to its emergence as a world power and culminating to its membership in the Axis Alliance and the conquest of of the Asia-Pacific regions.

Appearances in Battlefield
The armed forces of Imperial Japan, the Imperial Japanese Army and the Imperial Japanese Navy, make appearances as playable multiplayer factions in Battlefield 1942 and Battlefield 1943 and appear during Operation Aurora in Battlefield: Bad Company 2.