The Imperial Japanese Army Academy (陸軍士官学校, Rikugun Shikan Gakkō?) was the principal officer's training school for the Imperial Japanese Army. The program consisted of a junior course for graduates of local army cadet schools and for those who had completed four years of middle school, and a senior course for officer candidates.
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