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102nd Infantry Regiment (Imperial Japanese Army)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ4546425 ↗
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The 102nd Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment in the Imperial Japanese Army. The regiment was at one stage attached to the 128th Infantry Brigade, of the 114th Division, in the Tenth Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The regiment was later attached to the Eastern District Army on 7 September 1940, then the Kwantung Army on 1 August 1941, then assigned to the Twenty-Third Army on 19 September 1941 and the Eighteenth Army in November 1942. The regiment participated during the Second Sino-Japanese War and during the later stages of World War II, the regiment was in New Guinea, taking part in the New Guinea campaign.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1940, 1941, 1942—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1937. The account is most persuasive where 102nd, Infantry and Regiment can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “102nd Infantry Regiment (Imperial Japanese Army)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.