Imperial Guard (Japan)
The Japanese Imperial Guard (近衛師団, Konoe Shidan?) is an organization which is dedicated to protection of the Emperor of Japan and his family, palaces and other imperial properties. Formed as a unit within the Imperial Japanese Army it was dissolved at the conclusion of World War II and the formal surrender of Japan.
In 1947 a civil Imperial Guard was formed. It became a formal part of the Japanese National Police Agency in 1957.
Read more about Imperial Guard (Japan): Imperial Guard of The Imperial Japanese Army, Imperial Guard of The National Police Agency
Famous quotes containing the words imperial and/or guard:
“Their bodies are buried in peace; but their name liveth for evermore.”
—Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus, 44:14.
The line “their name liveth for evermore” was chosen by Rudyard Kipling on behalf of the Imperial War Graves Commission as an epitaph to be used in Commonwealth War Cemeteries. Kipling had himself lost a son in the fighting.
“Those who guard their mouths preserve their lives; those who open wide their lips come to ruin.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 13:3.