[Machine Translation] The Imperial Japanese Army, having advanced into the continent, gradually began deploying armored vehicles to the front lines, starting with the use of imported wheeled armored cars and the operation of captured armored trains during the Siberian Intervention that began in 1917. Then, in 1931 (1931), the Manchurian Incident saw the full-scale deployment of tracked vehicles such as tanks and heavy armored cars, and the use of armored vehicles expanded further during the Second Sino-Japanese War, which began in 1937 (Showa 12). This book classifies the Imperial Japanese Army s tanks, tracked armored vehicles, wheeled armored vehicles, railway armored vehicles, armored trains, and even reconnaissance balloons deployed on the Chinese mainland by type, and explains them in 11 chapters using a wealth of photographs.