Central government

Supreme head of state

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, Emperor of Japan: supreme Commander in Chief of Armed Imperial Forces, head of state, and representative of the "Imperial Sun Lineage", State Shinto and Worship national god image, and chief of the Imperial Household Ministry. Hirohito défilé

President of the Imperial Council

Yoshimichi Hara Yoshimichi Hara (原嘉道) (February 18, 1867 – August 7, 1944) was a Japanese statesman and the president of the Japanese privy council during World War II, from June 1940 until his death. Hara was always reluctant to use military force. In p ...

: President of the "Imperial Council" and "Imperial Throne Council of War" also the Emperor's representatives

Chairman of the Imperial Advisory Council

* Kantarō Suzuki: Chairman of the Imperial Advisory Council

Imperial family members

The following were closely involved in the government and military of Japan: Japan & Korea Imperial family Yasukuni 1938-10

* Prince Asaka Yasuhiko * Prince Chichibu * Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu * Prince Fushimi Hiroyoshi * Prince Mikasa * Prince Nashimoto Morimasa * Prince Higashikuni Naruhiko * Prince Higashikuni Morihiro * Prince Takamatsu *

Prince Takeda Tsuneyoshi was the second and last heir of the Takeda-no-miya collateral branch of the Japanese Imperial Family. Biography Early life Prince Takeda Tsuneyoshi was the only son of Prince Takeda Tsunehisa and Masako, Princess Tsune (1888–1940), the ...

* Prince Kan'in Kotohito * Prince Kan'in Haruhito * Prince Kaya Tsunenori *

Prince Kitashirakawa Naruhisa , was the 3rd head of a collateral branch of the Japanese Imperial Family. Early life Prince Naruhisa was the son of Prince Yoshihisa Kitashirakawa and Princess Tomiko.Takenobu, Yoshitaro. (1906). Prince Naruhisa succeeded as head of the hous ...

Prince Kitashirakawa Nagahisa of Japan, was the 4th head of the Kitashirakawa-no-miya collateral branch of the Japanese imperial family and a career officer in the Imperial Japanese Army. Early years Prince Kitashirakawa Nagahisa was the only son of Prince Naruhisa Kitas ...

* Prince Kuni Asaakira * Prince Yamashina Takehiko * Prince Yi Un (Crown Prince of Korea)

Vice Chairman of the Councilors of Court

* Kantarō Suzuki: Vice-chairman of the Councilors of Court

Prime Ministers

* Senjuro Hayashi: Prime Minister, Commander-in-Chief of Kwantung Army, Minister of War, member of Imperial Privy Council amongst political adviser in Taisei Yokusankai * Kōki Hirota: Prime Minister, also chief of secret services in the Black Dragon Society *

Fumimaro Konoe Prince was a Japanese politician and prime minister. During his tenure, he presided over the Japanese invasion of China in 1937 and the breakdown in relations with the United States, which ultimately culminated in Japan's entry into World W ...

: Prime Minister; in his second term organized the ''

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'' organization, Nation Service Society official government syndicate, and '' Taisei Yokusankai'' (Imperial Rule Assistance Association) group amongst official expert of Jews affairs * Hiranuma Kiichirō: General in Imperial Forces, Prime Minister, Home Affairs and Justice Minister, chief of Keishicho Police forces, Minister without Portfolio, founder and leader in Shintoist Rites Research Council amongst Last President of Imperial Privy Council * Nobuyuki Abe: Imperial Army General, Prime Minister, member of Imperial Privy Council, political adviser in militarist Genro grouping and last Governor in Chosen * Mitsumasa Yonai:Imperial Navy Admiral, Prime Minister, Minister of Marine, Chief of War Relief Association, expert in Jews topics amongst Imperial and Supreme War Councillor * Hideki Tōjō: Prime Minister, Home Affairs Minister, Education Minister, Trade Minister, War Minister, Head of ''Kodoha'' Party; also Commander-in-Chief of

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in same period, also led the '' Keishicho'' (Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department); also was for some time head of the Munitions Ministry. *

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: Prime Minister and head of Ministry of Greater East Asia (Japan), Vice-Minister of War, also commander of the Imperial Volunteer Corps defensive organization * Kantarō Suzuki: Imperial Navy Admiral, Marine Minister, Military Councillor, Grand Chamberlain and Privy Councilor, later Prime Minister * Prince Higashikuni Naruhiko: Prime Minister, Staff Officer, Army General Staff Headquarters, Military Councilor, Chief of the Army Aeronautical Department, and Commander-in-Chief of the Home Defense Headquarters

Chief Cabinet Secretary

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: Chief Cabinet Secretary in Minister Konoe period

Military Secretary to Prime Minister

* Makoto Matsutani: Military Secretary to Prime Minister

Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal

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(30 March 1925 – 26 February 1935) *

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(26 February 1935 – 26 February 1936) * Ichiki Kitokuro (6 March 1936 – 6 March 1936) * Yuasa Kurahei (6 March 1936 – 1 June 1940) * Kōichi Kido (1 June 1940 – 24 November 1945)

Imperial Privy Council

President of Privy Council *

: President of Privy Council * Hiranuma Kiichirō: Last President of Privy Council Privy Councillors * Jirō Minami: Privy Councillor * Kantarō Suzuki: Privy Councillor * Nobuyuki Abe: Privy Councillor * Hiranuma Kiichirō: Privy Councillor * Senjuro Hayashi: Privy Councillor *

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: Privy Councillor * Hideki Tōjō: Privy Councilor

Imperial State Council

* Sadao Araki: State Councillor

Imperial Aide to the Crown Prince

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: Imperial Aide to the Kōtaishi (Crown Prince)

Military Aide-de-Camp

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: Chief Aide-de-Camp to the Emperor *

: Chief Aide-de Camp to the Emperor *

Kazumoto Machijiri Viscount was a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. Biography Machijiri was the fourth son of the ''kuge'' Mibu Motonaka (1835–1906) from an ancient court nobility family of Kyoto. He was adopted into the ''kazo ...

: Aide-de-Camp to the Emperor * Shunroku Hata: Senior Aide-de-Camp to the Emperor * Korechika Anami: Aide-de-Camp to the Emperor *

: Aide-de-Camp to the Emperor * Hakaru Yano: Aide-de-Camp to the Emperor * Yoshikazu Nishi: Aide-de-Camp to the Emperor *

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: Aide-de-Camp to Prince Kotohito Kanin * Masaharu Homma: Aide-de-Camp to Prince Yasuhito Chichibu * Takushiro Hattori: Aide-de-Camp/Adjutant to Field Marshal (Prince) Nashimoto * Shoichi Muranaka: Aide-de-camp of Commander Komatsubara during Nomonhan Incident

Grand Chamberlain

* Makoto Saito: Grand Chamberlain in period of

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* Kantarō Suzuki: Grand Chamberlain * Saburo Hyakutake: Grand Chamberlain * Hisanoru Fujita: Grand Chamberlain

House of Representatives

* Juji Kasai: member of House of Representatives of Japan (government supporter) *

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: member in House of Representatives of Japan, defender of official policies

House of Peers

Satō Tetsutarō was a Japanese military theorist and an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy. Biography Early career Born in the Tsuruoka domain, Dewa Province (present day Tsuruoka city, Yamagata prefecture), Satō graduated from the 14th class of the Imp ...

: Member in House of Peers * Aisuke Kabayama: Member of House of Peers (partner of government policies in first stages) *

Teiichi Suzuki was a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army, a minister of state, and member of the House of Peers. A close associate of Hideki Tojo, he helped to plan Japan's wartime economy. Military career The eldest son of a landowner in Chiba ...

: Imperial candidate to House of Peers *

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: Member of House of Peers * Prince Higashikuni Morihiro: Member in House of Peers * Nobuyuki Abe: Member in House of Peers *

Naoki Hoshino was a bureaucrat and politician who served in the Taishō period, Taishō and early Shōwa period Government of Japan, Japanese government, and as an official in the Manchukuo, Empire of Manchukuo. Biography Hoshino was born in Yokohama, where ...

: Member in House of Peers

Imperial Supreme War Command (1937-1945)

Supreme Commander-in-Chief of Armed Imperial Forces *Emperor

: Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Japanese Army and the Imperial Japanese Navy (Article XI of the Meiji Constitution of 1889). He also led the Imperial Supreme War Council conferences and meetings, in some cases a member of the Imperial Family was sent to represent him at such strategic conferences.

Imperial General Headquarters (Dai Honei)

Established in 1937 Commander * Emperor Shōwa Minister of War * Hajime Sugiyama : War minister * Seishirō Itagaki : War minister * Shunroku Hata : War minister * Hideki Tōjō: War Minister * Korechika Anami: War Minister Japanese Army Strategic Thought Group *

Strike North Group was a pre-World War II political doctrine of the Empire of Japan which stated that Manchuria and Siberia were Japan's sphere of interest and that the potential value to Japan for economic and territorial expansion in those areas was greater than ...

- Strategist thought group dominated by the Imperial Japanese Army Aide to War Minister, IGHQ *

Joichiro Sanada was a major general in the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II. Biography The son of a colonist/soldier in what is now Bibai, Hokkaidō, Sanada graduated from Sapporo South High School and the army cadet school in Sendai before being accepte ...

: Aide to War Minister, IGHQ Staff officer IGHQ *

Torashirō Kawabe was a general and Deputy Chief of Staff of the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff during World War II. He was also the younger brother of General Masakazu Kawabe. Biography Born in Toyama prefecture, Kawabe graduated from the 24th class of the ...

: Army Staff officer, IGHQ * Prince Mikasa: Army Staff officer, IGHQ * Okikatsu Arao: concurrently Army Staff Officer, IGHQ * Takushiro Hattori: Army Staff Officer, IGHQ *

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: Army Staff officer IGHQ Operations Bureau's Organization and Mobilization Section, IGHQ * Saburo Hayashi: Chief of Operations Bureau's Organization and Mobilization Section, IGHQ * Seijun Inada: Chief of Operations Bureau's Organization and Mobilization Section, IGHQ Russian Section of Intelligence Department, IGHQ * Saburo Hayashi: Chief of Russian Section of Intelligence Department, IGHQ Army Inner Liaison (Army Section), Military Affairs Bureau, Army Ministry, IGHQ * Masao Inaba:Army inner liaison (Army Section), Military Affairs Bureau, Army Ministry, IGHQ Imperial Japanese Army General Staff (Tokyo HQ) * Prince Kan'in Kotohito: Chief of Army General Staff * Hajime Sugiyama: Chief of Army General Staff * Hideki Tōjō: Chief of Army General Staff * Yoshijirō Umezu: Chief of Army General Staff Army Zone Commands Army Regional Commands Army Tactical Commands General Command of Southern Army * Hisaichi Terauchi: Commander of Southern Army * Takazo Numata: Vice-Commander of Southern Army Army Tactical Commands Army High Level Inner Liaison with Army General Staff, IGHQ * Shuichi Miyazaki: Chief, First Bureau, Army General Staff Headquarters, attended operational liaison conference between IGHQ, Southern Army, and Fourteenth Area Army (Manila)

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: Marine Minister * Koshiro Oikawa : Marine minister *

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: Marine Minister Japanese Navy Strategic Thinking Group *

Strike South Group ''Nanpō gun'' , image = 1938 terauchi hisaichi.jpg , image_size = 200px , caption = Japanese General Count Terauchi Hisaichi, right, commanding officer of the Southern Expeditiona ...

- Strategists thinking group dominated by the Imperial Japanese Navy Imperial Japanese Navy General Staff (Tokyo HQ) *

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: Chief of Navy General Staff *

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: Chief of Navy General Staff *

: Chief of Navy General Staff * Koshiro Oikawa: Chief of Navy General Staff * Soemu Toyoda: Chief of Navy General Staff *

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: Vice-Chief of Navy General Staff Navy General Staff of Combined Fleet (Japan, later Truk HQ) * Isoroku Yamamoto: Chief of General Staff of Combined Fleet *

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: Vice-Chief of General Staff of Combined Fleet * Mineichi Koga: Chief of General Staff of Combined Fleet *

: Vice-Chief of General Staff of Combined Fleet Navy Tactical Commands Navy-Army General Staff (IGHQ) Liaison Officer * Takushiro Hattori: Member (Army-Navy high level liaison), Naval General Staff; Naval Staff Officer (Operations)

IGHQ The was part of the Supreme War Council and was established in 1893 to coordinate efforts between the Imperial Japanese Army and Imperial Japanese Navy during wartime. In terms of function, it was approximately equivalent to the United States J ...

; Section Chief (Operations), Army General Staff, IGHQ; Army Section Member, Naval General Staff Naval Staff Officer, IGHQ (Operations). *

: Chief, Second Section, (Army-Navy high level liaison) Army General Staff Headquarters; Staff Officer, IGHQ (Navy Section) Inspectorate General of Military Training IGHQ *

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: Vice-Chief Inspectorate General of Military Training * Sadao Araki: Inspector General of Military Training * Shunroku Hata: Inspector General of Artillery Training *

Harukichi Hyakutake was a general in the Japanese Imperial Army in World War II. He is sometimes referred to as Haruyoshi Hyakutake or Seikichi Hyakutake. His elder brothers Saburō Hyakutake and Gengo Hyakutake were admirals in the Imperial Japanese Navy. Biograph ...

: Inspector General of Signal Training * Hitoshi Imamura: Deputy Chief, Inspectorate General of Military Training *

Masatane Kanda , was a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. Biography A native of Aichi Prefecture, Kanda graduated from the 23rd class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1911 and was assigned to the Kwantung Army and bas ...

: Department Chief, Inspectorate General of Military Training * Masakazu Kawabe: Section Member, Inspectorate General of Military Training * Heitarō Kimura: Artillery Department, Office of Military Training *

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: Section Member, Inspectorate General of Military Training * Shigenori Kuroda: Office of Military Training * Jinsaburo Mazaki: Section Chief, Office of Military Training; also Inspector General of Military Training * Hajime Sugiyama: Inspector General of Military Training *

Akira Mutō was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. He was convicted of Japanese war crimes, war crimes and was executed by hanging. Mutō was implicated in both the Nanjing Massacre and the Manila massacre. Biography Mutō was a ...

: Member, Inspectorate General of Military Training *

: Member, Inspectorate General of Military Training * Ichiro Shichida: Section Chief, Inspectorate General of Military Training * Tokumatsu Shigeta: Inspector General of Artillery Training *

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: Chief, 2nd Section, Inspectorate General of Military Training *Shinichi Tanaka: Section Member, Inspectorate General of Military Training * Hisaichi Terauchi: Inspector General of Military Training * Otozō Yamada: Office of Cavalry Training (Inspectorate General of Military Training) * Prince Un Yi: Attached to Inspectorate-General of Military Training * Nobuyushi Muto: Inspector-General of Military Training * Yoshikazu Nishi: Inspector-General of Military Training

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IGHQ *

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: Inspector general of Army Aviation * Prince Mikasa: Inspector general of Army Aviation *

: Deputy Chief, Inspectorate General of Air Force * Korechika Anami: Inspector General of Army Aviation * Hideki Tōjō: Inspector General of Army Aviation * Kenji Doihara: Inspector General of Army Aviation

Imperial Supreme War Council (Senso-shi-do)

Chief Secretary of Supreme War Council *

: Chief Secretary of Supreme War Council *

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: Chief Secretary of Supreme War Council Supreme War Councilor * Nobutake Kondō: Appointed to the Supreme War Council * Mitsumasa Yonai: Supreme War Councilor * Soemu Toyoda: Supreme War Councilor *

: Appointed to Supreme War Council * Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu: Supreme War Councilor * Prince Un Yi: Member of the Supreme War Council * Waichirō Sonobe: Member of the Supreme War Council * Sadao Araki: Member Supreme War Council * Saburo Ando: Member Supreme War Council * Prince Asaka Yasuhiko: Member Supreme War Council * Prince Higashikuni Naruhiko: Member Supreme War Council *

: Member Supreme War Council * Shunroku Hata: Member Supreme War Council *

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: Member Supreme War Council * Hisaichi Terauchi: Member of the Supreme War Council * Prince Nashimoto Morimasa: Member of the Supreme War Council * Prince Kaya Tsunenori: Member of the Supreme War Council * Prince Kan'in Kotohito: Member of the Supreme War Council * Hajime Sugiyama: Member of the Supreme War Council * Yoshijirō Umezu: Member of the Supreme War Council * Jinzaburō Masaki: Member of the Supreme War Council * Hideki Tōjō: Member of the Supreme War Council * Yoshikazu Nishi: Member of the Supreme War Council *

: Member of the Supreme War Council * Shigeatsu Yamaoka: Member of the Supreme War Council *

Takeo Yasuda was a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army. While serving as director of the Army's Aviation Technology Research Institute during World War II, he was a key figure in scientific and technological development for the Imperial Japanese A ...

: Member of the Supreme War Council Araki Sadao

Military Councilors * Sadao Araki: Military Councilor * Hisaichi Terauchi: Military Councilor * Kantarō Suzuki: Military Councilor * Hajime Sugiyama: concurrently Military Councilor * Korechika Anami: concurrently Military Councilor * Kenji Doihara: Military Councilor * Shunroku Hata: Military Councilor * Naruhiko Higashikuni: Military Councilor * Jinsaburo Mazaki: Military Councilor * Yasuji Okamura: Military Councilor *

: Military Councilor * Prince Kan'in Kotohito: Military Councilor *

: Military Councilor * Shizuichi Teramoto: Military Councillor " Imperial Throne Council of War" President of the Imperial Throne Council of War *

: President of the Imperial Throne Council of War Imperial War Councilor * Mitsumasa Yonai: Imperial War Councilor *

: Appointed to Imperial War Council

Home Defence

Home Defense Headquarters

* Otozō Yamada: Commander-in-Chief, Home Defense Headquarters * Prince Higashikuni Naruhiko: Commander-in-Chief, Home Defense Headquarters Organization *Fifth Area Army and Northern Army District (Sapporo) *Eleventh Area Army and Northeastern Army District (Sendai) *Twelfth Area Army and Eastern Army District (Tokyo) *Thirteenth Area Army and Tokai Army District (Nagoya) *Fifteenth Area Army and Central Army District (Osaka) *Shikoku Army District (Zentsuji) *Sixteenth Area Army and Western Army District (Fukuoka) *Seventeenth Area Army and Korea Army District (Seoul) *Tenth Area Army and Formosa Army District (Taipei) * Imperial General Headquarters in Matsushiro Fortress,

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Tokyo metropolitan area

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: Governor of the Tokyo metropolitan area; also was commander of civil law enforcement divisions in the metropolitan area, including Keishicho, Tokkō, Kempeitai and Tokeitai metropolitan units. The

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remained under their own commander, who reported directly to the Emperor.

Tokyo Divisional District

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: Commanding General, Tokyo Defense Army; concurrently Commanding General, Tokyo Divisional District

Tokyo Defense Command

* Yoshikazu Nishi: Commander Officer of Tokyo Defence Command

Tokyo Garrison Headquarters

* Kiichiro Higuchi: Staff Officer, Tokyo Garrison Headquarters *

: Staff Officer, Tokyo Garrison Command

Tokyo Bay Fortress Detachment Officers

* Shihei Oba: Commanding General, Tokyo Bay Fortress, concurrently Commanding General, Tokyo Bay Detachment * Tokumatsu Shigeta: Staff Officer, Tokyo Bay Fortress Detachment

Maizuru Fortified Zone

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: Commanding General, Maizuru Fortified Zone

Tsushima Fortress Detachment

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: recalled to active duty, Commanding General, Tsushima Fortress *

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Officer assigned to General Defense Command

* Shōjirō Iida: assigned to General Defense Command

Shinbu Group (Fourteenth Area Army command)

* Shizuo Yokoyama: Commanding General, Shinbu Group (Fourteenth Area Army command)

Northeastern Army District Headquarters (Japan Proper)

* Sinichi Tanaka: attached to Northeastern Army District Headquarters (Japan Proper)

Northern District Army Command

* Kiichiro Higuchi: concurrently Commanding General, Northern District Army Command

Western Army District HQ

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: attached to Western Army District Headquarters

Western District Army Command

* Shizuo Sakaguchi: attached to Western District Army Command

Central District Army Headquarters

: Central District Army Headquarters

Central District Army Command

* Masakazu Kawabe: concurrently Commanding General, Central District Army Command

Chosen Army District

* Seishirō Itagaki: concurrently Commanding General, Chosen District Army Command

War Ministries

Munitions Minister

* Hideki Tōjō: Concurrent chief of the Munitions Ministry, as Army figure in same Ministry *

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: As sometimes replaced at Gen Tojo in lead of Munitions Minister *

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: in charge of the Munitions Ministry * Shigeru Yoshida: Munitions Minister *

Teijirō Toyoda was a career naval officer who served as Minister for Foreign Affairs in 1941 and as admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. Biography Early life Toyoda was born in Wakayama Prefecture as the son of a former samurai retain ...

: Marine and Munitions Ministry, as Navy figure in such Ministry * Takijiro Ohnishi: Chief of naval aviation development, a division of the Munitions Ministry; also father of the " Kamikaze" special forces *

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: Munitions Minister and aircraft industrialist as linked with Army

Material Section, War Ministry

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: Chief, Material Section, War Ministry

Sagami Army Arsenal

: Chief, Sagami Army Arsenal

Tokyo Army Arsenal

* Kijirō Nambu: Chief, Tokyo Army Arsenal; he also founded and led Nambu Arms Manufacturing Company during wartime

Army Remount Department

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: Member, Army Remount Department

Inspector General of Chemical Warfare

: Inspector General of Chemical Warfare *

: Inspector General of Chemical Warfare

Officer in Inspectorate General

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: Chief of Staff, Inspectorate General, LOC

Army Section, Imperial General Headquarters

* Prince Mikasa: Staff officer in the Army Section of the Imperial General Headquarters

Ōita PW Internment Camp Staff

: member of Ōita PW Internment Camp staff

Army Allied Prisoner of War Information Bureau

Hitoshi Hamada Hitoshi (written: , , , , , , , , , or in hiragana) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese politician *, Japanese manga artist *, Japanese baseball player *, Japanese photographer *, Japanese baseba ...

: Deputy Chief Supervisor of Allied Prisoner of War Information Bureau Army Commanders of Military Prisons and POW Camps in occupied territories *Lieutenant-General Igatu: General Officer Commanding Prisoner of War Camps Philippines *Shinpei Fukei: Commandant Prisoner of War Camps, Singapore *Major-General Arimina: Commandant Changi Jail, Singapore

War Minister

* Prince Higashikuni Naruhiko: Minister of War * Senjuro Hayashi: Minister of War * Hajime Sugiyama: Minister of War * Sadao Araki: Minister of War * Jirō Minami: Minister of War * Shunroku Hata: Minister of War *

Kazushige Ugaki was a Japanese general in the Imperial Japanese Army and cabinet minister before World War II, the 5th principal of Takushoku University, and twice Governor-General of Korea. Nicknamed Ugaki Issei, he served as Foreign Minister of Japan in the ...

: Minister of War * Yoshijirō Umezu: Minister of War * Seishirō Itagaki: Minister of War * Hideki Tōjō: Minister of War * Korechika Anami: Minister of War * Hisaichi Terauchi: Minister of War * Shigenori Kuroda: Minister of War * Nobuyuki Abe: Minister of War

Deputy Minister of War

* Nobuyuki Abe: Deputy Minister of War

Vice-Minister of War

* Yoshinori Shirakawa: Vice-Minister of War * Mikio Furusho: Vice-Minister of War * Toranosuke Hashimoto: Vice-Minister of War * Korechika Anami: Vice-Minister of War *

: War Vice-Minister * Hajime Sugiyama: Vice-Minister of War * Hideki Tōjō: Vice-Minister of War *

Heisuke Yanagawa was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II. Japanese forces under Yanagawa's command committed the 1937 Nanking Massacre. Biography Born in what is now part of Nagasaki city, Nagasaki prefecture, Yanagawa was raised in Ōita Pr ...

: War Vice-Minister * Hyotaro Yamada: War Vice-Minister * Heitarō Kimura: War Vice-Minister *

: War Vice-Minister *

Masataka Yamawaki Masataka (written: 昌孝, 雅孝, 雅隆, 正隆, 正孝, 正崇, 正太, 正貴, 正尚, 政孝, 仁崇, 將貴, 昌隆, 真孝 or 真隆) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese voice actor *, Japa ...

: War Vice-Minister

Secretary to the War Minister

: Secretary to War Minister; concurrently Adjutant in the same Ministry; Aide to the War Minister; Staff Officer, Tokyo Garrison Command * Takushiro Hattori: Secretary to the War Minister; Adjutant, War Ministry *

: Aide to War Minister, IGHQ *

: Adjutant to the War Minister * Yoshio Kozuki: Secretary to the War Minister; Adjutant, War Ministry *

: Adjutant, War Ministry; Secretary to the War Minister; Governor, Tokyo Metropolitan area * Yozo Miyama: Senior Adjutant, War Ministry * Okitsugu Arao: Secretary to the War Minister

Military Affairs Bureau, War Ministry

* Kenryo Sato: Chief, Army Affairs Bureau *

Kitsuju Ayabe was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. Biography Early career Ayabe graduated from the 27th class of the Army Cavalry School in October 1917. On receiving his commission as Second lieutenant, he was posted to the 12th ...

: Member, Army Affairs Section * Tetsuzan Nagata: Chief, Military Affairs Bureau * Hitoshi Imamura: Chief, Military Affairs Bureau, War Ministry *

: Member, Military Affairs Bureau, War Ministry * Heitarō Kimura: Chief, Military Administration Bureau, War Ministry * Masahiko Takeshita: Chief of the Domestic affairs section of the Military Affairs Bureau * Machijiri Kazumoto: Chief of Army Affairs Section, Military Affairs Bureau, Ministry of War and Head of Military Affairs Bureau, in same Ministry *

: Head of Military Affairs Bureau, Ministry of War * Kenji Hatanaka: Officer in Military Affairs Section * Yoshio Kozuki: assigned to the Military Affairs Bureau * Tadamichi Kuribayashi: Member, Military Affairs Bureau * Renya Mutaguchi: Military Affairs Bureau, War Ministry * Tetsuzan Nagata: Chief, Military Affairs Bureau *

Hidemitsu Nakano was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army, commanding Japanese ground forces in the Southwest Pacific during the closing months of the war. Biography Nakano was born in Saga Prefecture, where his father was a former samurai retainer to Saga ...

: Member, Military Affairs Bureau, War Ministry *

: Section Member, Military Affairs Bureau * Kengo Noda: Member, Military Affairs Bureau, War Ministry * Hideyoshi Obata: Member, Military Affairs Bureau, War Ministry *

Sanji Okido Sanji may refer to: * Changji or Sanji, city in Xinjiang, China * Sanji, Fujian, village in Nanping, Fujian, China * Sanji (director), Sanji Senaka, an American music video director * Sanji (given name), a masculine Japanese given name * Sanji ( ...

: Member, Military Affairs Bureau, War Ministry *

: Chief, Military Affairs Bureau *

: Military Affairs Bureau, War Ministry * Hajime Sugiyama: Chief, Military Affairs Bureau *

: Member, Military Affairs Bureau *

: Member, Military Affairs Bureau, War Ministry * Sizuichi Tanaka: Member, Military Affairs Bureau *

Yuitsu Tsuchihashi was a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II. Biography Early career Tsuchihashi was born in Saga prefecture and graduated from the 24th class of Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1912 and the 32nd class of the Army War ...

: Member, Military Affairs Bureau, War Ministry *

: Member and Chief, Army Affairs Section, Military Affairs Bureau, War Ministry *

: Chief, Defense Section, Military Affairs Bureau, War Ministry *

Isamu Yokoyama was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army, commanding Japanese ground forces in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War and Pacific War. Biography Yokoyama was born in Chiba Prefecture as the son of a colonel in the Imperial Japanese Army; h ...

: Military Affairs Bureau, War Ministry *

: Head of Military Affairs Bureau, Ministry of War *

Isamu Chō was an officer in the Imperial Japanese Army known for his support of ultranationalist politics and involvement in a number of attempted coup d'états in pre-World War II Japan. Biography Chō was a native of Fukuoka prefecture. He graduated ...

: Attached to Military Affairs Bureau, Ministry of War

Economic Mobilization Bureau in War Ministry and related sections

* Shigenori Kuroda: Section Chief (Conscription), War Ministry * Tetsuzan Nagata: Section Chief, Economic Mobilization Bureau *

: Chief, Materiel Mobilization Bureau, War Ministry * Heitarō Kimura: Section Chief, Economic Mobilization Bureau, War Ministry *

: attached to Army Technical Department *Toshishiro Obata: Chief, Operations Bureau, Army General Staff *

: Member, War Ministry Maintenance section; Chief, Army Affairs Section, Military Affairs Bureau, War Ministry *

: Ordnance Bureau, War Ministry, Army Ordnance Main Depot, Mechanized Department *

: Army Ordnance, Administration Department * Kenryo Sato: Chief, Military Affairs Bureau, War Ministry * Teichii Suzuki: Military Affairs Bureau; concurrently Member of the Cabinet Research Board *

: Chief, Military Service Section, War Ministry * Yoshijirō Umezu: Ordnance Bureau, War Ministry *

: Economic Mobilization Bureau, War Ministry; Section Chief, Planning Bureau, Cabinet Resources Board

Personal Bureau of War Ministry

* Yaezo Akashiba: Member, Personnel Bureau * Korechika Anami: Chief, Personnel Bureau * Yasuji Okamura: Chief, Assignments Section, Personnel Bureau, War Ministry * Tan Nukata: Chief, Personnel Bureau, War Ministry *

: attached to Personnel Bureau, War Ministry * Otozō Yamada: Chief, Personnel Bureau

Press Relations Branch, Ministry of War

* Masaharu Homma: Chief of Press Relations Branch, Ministry of War

Army Field Marshal

* Prince Kan'in Kotohito:- Field Marshal * Prince Nashimoto Morimasa:- Field Marshal * Shunroku Hata:- Field Marshal * Hisaichi Terauchi:- Field Marshal * Hajime Sugiyama:- Field Marshal * Prince Higashikuni Naruhiko:- Field Marshal *

Nobuyoshi Mutō '' Gensui'' Baron was Commander of the Kwantung Army in 1933, Japanese ambassador to Manchukuo, and a field marshal in the Imperial Japanese Army. Biography Mutō was born in an ex''-samurai'' family from Saga Domain. After graduating from th ...

:- Field Marshal

Provost Marshal General

* Sadao Araki: Provost Marshal General * Fusataro Teshima: Provost Marshal General (LtGen) * Shigeru Taiboku: Provost Marshal General * Toranosuke Hashimoto: Provost Marshal General, later the Japanese first priest in Shintoist central Shrine in Hsinking, led the Cultural Japanese entity in Manchukuo, amongst operative leader of Manchoukouan Intelligence services.

General Affairs Bureau, Provost Marshal Headquarters

* Fusataro Teshima: Chief, General Affairs Bureau, Provost Marshal Headquarters

Inspectorate General of Military Training

: Vice-Chief Inspectorate General of Military Training * Sadao Araki: Inspector General of Military Training * Shunroku Hata: Inspector General of Artillery Training *

: Inspector General of Signal Training * Hitoshi Imamura: Deputy Chief, Inspectorate General of Military Training *

: Member, Inspectorate General of Military Training *

: Member, Inspectorate General of Military Training * Ichiro Shichida: Section Chief, Inspectorate General of Military Training * Tokomatsu Shigeta: Inspector General of Artillery Training *

: Chief, 2nd Section, Inspectorate General of Military Training * Sinichi Tanaka: Section Member, Inspectorate General of Military Training * Hisaichi Terauchi: Inspector General of Military Training * Otozō Yamada: Office of Cavalry Training (Inspectorate General of Military Training) *

: Inspector-General of Cavalry Training

Imperial Army-Navy military teaching and training services units

See: Military instructors and trainers of the Empire of Japan

Army Officers in Reserve list

* Sadao Araki: retired, March 1936, later enter in politic activities * Jirō Minami: placed on reserve list, 1936, later recalled * Nobuyuki Abe: In 1936 put on reserve list with rank of general *

: transferred to reserve list, January 1941; recalled to active duty *

Keisuke Fujie was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II. Fujie’s wife was the daughter of Prime Minister Kantarō Suzuki. Biography Fujie was born in Hyōgo prefecture and graduated from the 18th class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academ ...

: retired, April 1945; recalled to active duty * Masaharu Homma: transferred to First Reserve List, August 1943 * Shōjirō Iida: retired, December 1944; later recalled *

: retired, 1938; recalled to active duty, 1938–40 *

: unassigned list, March 1943; transferred to first reserve list, April 1943 *

: transferred to first reserve list * Renya Mutaguchi: retired, December 1944 *

: placed on reserve list, 1942 * Ichiro Shicida: retired, April 1945; recalled to active duty * Hideki Tōjō: relieved of all military and political posts, July 1944; retired to first reserve list * Kioji Tominaga: transferred to first reserve list (Formosa), May 1945 *

: retired to first reserve list, July 1938 *

Yoshitoshi Tokugawa 200px, Lieutenant General Baron Tokugawa Yoshitoshi Baron was a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army and one of the pioneers of military aviation in Japan. He is credited with having made the first flight in a powered aircraft in Ja ...

: Was entered on Reserve list (1939), for later retirement to civilian life (1939). He was called to operational service during 1944–45.

Army

Deputy Chief of Army General Staff

* Jun Ushiroku: Senior Deputy Chief of Army General Staff * Hikosaburo Hata: Second Deputy Chief of Army General Staff *

: Deputy Chief of Army General Staff * Hajime Sugiyama: Deputy Chief of Army General Staff

Chief of Army General Staff

* Prince Kan'in Kotohito: Chief of the Army General Staff * Hideki Tōjō: Chief of Army General Staff * Yoshijirō Umezu: Chief of Army General Staff * Hajime Sugiyama: Chief of Army General Staff

Bureau Chief of Army General Staff

* Sadao Araki: Bureau Chief of Army General Staff

1st Bureau Chief of Army General Staff

: Head 1st Bureau General Staff * Morikazu Amano: Chief 1st Section General Staff

2nd Bureau Chief of Army General Staff

* Seizo Arisue: Head 2nd Bureau General Staff * Kiichiro Higuchi: Head 2nd Bureau General Staff

Vice Chief of Army General Staff

Kiyoshi Imai Kiyoshi, (きよし or キヨシ), is a Japanese given name, also spelled Kyoshi. Possible meanings *'' Kyōshi'', a form of Japanese poetry *Kyōshi, a Japanese honorific Possible writings *清, "cleanse" *淳, "pure" *潔, "undefiled" *清志, ...

: Vice Chief of Army General Staff * Nobuyushi Muto: Vice Chief of Army General Staff

Army General Staff

* Hideo Iwakuro * Muraji Yano * Saburo Hayashi *

Hatazō Adachi was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. Early career Adachi was born into an impoverished family, originally descended from samurai, in Ishikawa Prefecture in 1890 (the 23rd year of the reign of Emperor Meiji, which is ...

* Sadao Araki * Okitsugu Arao *

* Kenji Doihara *

* Shunroku Hata * Takushiro Hattori * Prince Higashikuni Naruhiko * Kiichiro Higuchi * Masaharu Homma * Prince Chichibu *

* Hitoshi Imamura *

* Tadasu Kataoka * Masakazu Kawabe *

* Kiyotake Kawabe * Heitarō Kimura * Seiichi Kita *

Kuniaki Koiso was a Japanese general in the Imperial Japanese Army, Governor-General of Korea and Prime Minister of Japan from 1944 to 1945. After Japan's defeat in World War II, he was convicted of war crimes and sentenced to life imprisonment. Early lif ...

* Yoshio Kozuki * Shuichi Miyazaki * Takeshi Mori * Renya Mutaguchi *

* Tetsuzan Nagata *

Mitsuo Nakazawa Mitsuo (written: , , , , , , , , , or in hiragana) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: * Mitsuo Aoki (1914–2010), American theologian *, Japanese naval aviator *Mitsuo Fujikura, Japanese mixed martial arti ...

* Masahiko Takeshita * Kengo Noda * Shihei Oba * Hideyoshi Obata *

* Ichiro Shichida * Hajime Sugiyama *

* Shizuichi Tanaka *

Kumaichi Teramoto was a Japanese Lieutenant General during World War II. Career Kumaichi Teramoto joined the Imperial Japanese Army in 1910, being commissioned into the infantry. In 1921, he graduated the Japanese War College and became a colonel in the IJA. Even ...

* Kyoji Tominaga *

deputy Chief-of-Staff of China Expeditionary Army in October 1940. *

Toshimichi Uemura Toshimichi is a masculine Japanese given name. Possible writings Toshimichi can be written using different combinations of kanji characters. Some examples: *敏道, "agile, way" *敏路, "agile, route" *敏通, "agile, pass through" *俊道, "t ...

* Otozō Yamada *

* Shizuo Yokoyama

20th Group - War Coordination, Army General Staff

* Makoto Matsutani: Chief, 20th Group-War Coordination, Army General Staff

Operations Section, Army General Staff

* Seijun Inada: Chief of Operations Section, Army General Staff

Third Section-Organization and Mobilization, Army General Staff

* Yozo Miyama: Chief, Third Section (Organization and Mobilization), Army General Staff *

: Section Chief, Third Section (Organization and Mobilization), Army General Staff

Chief of General Intelligence Bureau in Army General Staff

* Seizo Arisue: Chief of General Intelligence Bureau in Army General Staff

Second Bureau (Intelligence Division), Army General Staff

Major General Okamoto Major (Commandant (rank), commandant in certain jurisdictions) is a military rank of commissioned officer status, with corresponding ranks existing in many military forces throughout the world. When used unhyphenated and in conjunction with ...

: Chief, Second Bureau (Intelligence Division), Army General Staff, at the time of the outbreak of the

Pacific War The Pacific War, sometimes called the Asia–Pacific War, was the theater of World War II that was fought in Asia, the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean, and Oceania. It was geographically the largest theater of the war, including the vast ...

. His staff consisted of Colonel Kotani, Navy officer

Captain Onoda Captain is a title, an appellative for the commanding officer of a military unit; the supreme leader of a navy ship, merchant ship, aeroplane, spacecraft, or other vessel; or the commander of a port, fire or police department, election precinct, e ...

, and Mr.Yosano, Foreign Office Chancellor. * Seizo Arisue: Chief, Second Bureau (Intelligence Division), Army General Staff *

: Chief of the Cryptographic Section (Intelligence Division), Army General Staff

Russian unit of Second Bureau (Intelligence Division) Army General Staff

* Saburo Hayashi: Commander of Russian unit, Second Bureau (Intelligence) Army General Staff Japanese Army Intelligence Services units * Hideki Tōjō, the highest operative Chief in Japanese Army Intelligence Services in wartime *

as the underground, supreme chief and secret agent in Japanese Secret Service in Manchukuo * Toranosuke Hashimoto as Operative Commander of Manchoukouan Secret services under the lead of Prince Takeda amongst Kempeitai services *

Staff Officer (Operations/Intelligence), Kwantung Army *

Chief, Special Service Agency, Hailar, Kwantung Army *

Chief of the Special Service Agency, Kwantung Army in Harbin *

leader of Special Services Agency in Manchukuo * Michitarō Komatsubara intelligence chief of Special Services Agency in Harbin for some time * Noboyushi Obata (Shinryo) chief of Special Services Agency in Harbin *

Kanji Tsuneoka are the logographic Chinese characters taken from the Chinese script and used in the writing of Japanese. They were made a major part of the Japanese writing system during the time of Old Japanese and are still used, along with the subsequent ...

Directed the Mongol department of Kwantung Army in land and native saboteurs and secret agent units *

Hiroshi Akita is a common masculine Japanese given name. It can also be transliterated as Hirosi. Possible writings Hiroshi can be written using different kanji characters and can mean: *浩, "meaning" *汎 *弘, *宏, *寛, *洋, *博, *博一, *博司, ...

Chief of German Section of Japanese Military Intelligence in this period *

Masayoshi Yamamoto is a Japanese male artistic gymnast, representing his nation at international competitions. He won the gold medal in the Pommel horse event at the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea Incheon (; ; or Inch'ŏn; literally "kind river"), ...

Led the Matsu Kikan (Pine Tree) Secret Agency, under command of 19th Army, with HQ in Ambon ( Dutch Indies) * Jinzo Nomoto intelligence officer sent by a unit of the Imperial Japanese Army to Tibet and Sinkiang

Army Technical Research Institute

* Lieutenant-General Gondo:Director 9th Dept Army Technical Research Institute * Yoshikazu Nishi: Head of General Affairs Bureau in Technical Research Institute

Third Bureau (Logistics), Army General Staff

* Tan Nukata: Chief, Third Bureau-Logistics, Army General Staff * Goro Isoya: Chief, Third Bureau-Logistics, Army General Staff

Railways and Shipping section, Army General Staff

* Okitsugu Arao: Section Chief (Railways and Shipping), Army General Staff

Army Ordnance and Army Shipping Department

* Yoshio Kozuki: Commanding General, Shipping Transportation Headquarters *

: Army Ordnance, Administration Department; Chief, Army Shipping Department Shipping Transportation Headquarters *

Hideo Baba is a Japanese video game producer and president of the game development company, Studio Istolia. He formerly worked at Namco Bandai Studios where he was hired by them before their merge to be primarily involved with the production of the '' Tales ...

: General Officer Commanding Army Maritime Transport Command * Hakaru Gondo: Commanding Officer 13th Shipping Group

Chairman of the Military Affairs Bureau

* Tetsuzan Nagata: Military Affairs Bureau and Economic Mobilization Bureau * Kenryo Sato: Chief of the Military Affairs Bureau, Government Planning Board *

: Chief, Military Administration Section, Military Administration Bureau * Renya Mutaguchi: Military Affairs Bureau *

Akiho Ishii Akiho is a Japanese given name and surname. According to WWWJDIC, there are more than a hundred different ways this name might be written in kanji. People with this given name include: *Akiho Miyashiro (都城秋穂, 1920–2008), Japanese male ...

: Chief, Military Affairs Section, War Ministry * Okitsugu Arao: Chief, Army Affairs Section, Military Affairs Bureau * Susumu Nishiura: Chief, Army Affairs Section, War Ministry * Tan Nukata: Chief, General Affairs Bureau * Hitoshi Imamura: Section Chief, Military Affairs Bureau * Yoshio Kozuki: Military Affairs Bureau and Military Administration Bureau; member Military Administration Bureau *

: Section Member, Military Affairs Bureau; Inspector General of Chemical Warfare *

: Chief, Defense Section, Military Affairs Bureau, War Ministry

Commanders Officer Army Home Stations

* Masao Iwasa: Commanding Officer Tokyo Home Station * Jinzaburo Ishitani: Commanding Officer Tsu Home Station, Commanding Officer Ujiyamada Home Station, Commanding Officer Yokkaichi Home Station * Juzo Hirata: Commanding Officer Shibata Home Station * Seiji Ikehama: Commanding Officer Ashigawa Home Station and Commanding Officer Obihiro Home Station * Keinosuke Iizuka: Commanding Officer Akita Home Station * Tomejiro Hishiki: Commanding Officer Wakamatsu Home Station *

Jūrō Gotō was a major-general in the Japanese Imperial Army in the Second Sino-Japanese War. Biography A native of Yamagata prefecture, Gotō was a graduate of the 19th class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1907. From 1934 to 1935 Gotō was comma ...

: Commanding Officer Kofu Home Station * Hisao Harada: Commanding Officer Matsumo Home Station, Commanding Officer Muramatsu Home Station and Commanding Officer Takeda Home Station

Army Aeronautical Department

Administrative Chief of Administrative Division, Army Aeronautical Department * Korechika Anami: Chief, Army Aeronautical Department * Shunroku Hata: Chief, Administrative Division, Army Aeronautical Department * Prince Higashikuni Naruhiko: Chief, Administrative Division, Army Aeronautical Department * Takuma Shimoyama: Chief Administrative Division, Army Aeronautical Department * Michio Sugawara: Chief Administrative Division, Army Aeronautical Department * Hajime Sugiyama: Chief, Administrative Division, Army Aeronautical Department *

: Member, Administrative Division, Army Aeronautical Department *

: Chief, Administrative Division, Army Aeronautical Department *

: Chief, Administrative Division, Army Aeronautical Department * Tsuneori Kaya: Attached to Administration, Army Aeronautical Department, Ministry of War Chief of the Army Aviation Headquarters *

: Chief of the Army Aviation Headquarters Inspectorate General of Army Air Force *

: Inspector General of Army Aviation * Prince Mikasa: Inspector General of Army Aviation * Korechika Anami: Inspector General of Army Aviation *

: Deputy Chief, Inspectorate General of Air Force * Hideki Tōjō: Inspector General of Army Aviation * Kenji Doihara: Inspector General of Army Aviation Air Armies General Commanders * Masakazu Kawabe: Commanding General,

Air General Army ''Kōkū Sōgun'' , image = , caption = , dates = 1945 , country = Empire of Japan , allegiance = Emperor of Japan , branch ...

, (took charge of Army air operations in homeland, Chosen and Ryukyus) *

: Commanding General,

First Air Army __NOTOC__ The 1st Air Army (russian: 1-я воздушная армия) was an Air Army in the Soviet Air Force which served during World War II. It was formed on May 10, 1942, within the Soviet Western Front, and renamed the 26th Air Army on ...

: Commanding General, Second Air Army (Manchuria) * Hideyoshi Obata: Third Air Army General Commander * Michio Sugawara: Third Air Army Commander and Sixth Air Army Commander. Between March and May 1945, General Sugawara was engaged in the Ten-Go Air Operation, under the Commander-in-Chief, Combined Fleet *

: Commanding General, Fourth Air Army * Kyoji Tominaga: Fourth Air Army Commander * Takuma Shimoyama: At end of World War II, he was Commanding General (LtGen), Fifth Air Army, stationed in Seoul, Chosen * Prince Un Yi: General Officer Commanding

Air Groups Commanders * Michio Sugawara: First Air Group Commander *

: Commanding General, Second Air Group (LtGen) * Hideyoshi Obata: Fifth Air Group Commander and Third Air Group Commander Air Regiment Commanders * Michio Sugawara: LtCol (Air Force), Regimental Commander, 6th Air Regiment (Colonel) *

Rikishi Tsukada was a lieutenant general of the Imperial Japanese Army. Biography Tsukada was born in Ishikawa Prefecture. In May 1916, he graduated from the 28th class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the in ...

: LtCol/Colonel (Air Force) Officer attached to 7th Air Regiment; later 7th Air Regiment Commander *

: Regimental Commander, 8th Air Regiment (Colonel, Air Force) * Takuma Shimoyama: Regimental Commander, 16th Air Regiment * Hideyoshi Obata: Regimental Commander, 16th Air Regiment *

: Commanding Officer 1st Air Regiment Air Force Brigade Commanders * Michio Sugawara: Brigade Commander, 2nd Air Brigade, Brigade Commander, 3rd Air Brigade Air Force Staff Officers * Prince Mikasa: Member of Staff of the Air General Army *

: Chief of Staff, First Air Group * Takuma Shimoyama: Staff Officer, Air Force * Michio Sugawara: Department (MajGen), Staff Officer, Air Force administration Officer Attached to Second Air Group HQ * Hideyoshi Obata: Colonel (Air Force) --attached to Second Air Group Headquarters Commanding Officer in Air Battalion *

: Commanding Officer 2nd Air Battalion Acting General Officer Commanding Army Aviation Corps *

: Acting General Officer Commanding Army Aviation Corps and General Officer Commanding Army Aviation Corps Air Force Commanders, Directors and instructors in Air Schools * Hideyoshi Obata: Commandant, Akeno Army Air School, Commanding General, same school (MajGen) * Michio Sugawara: Commandant, Shimoshizu Army Air School and Commandant, Military Air Academy and Air Training Army Commander *

: Director/Superintendent, Hamamatsu Army Air School (MajGen) *

: Instructor, Hamamatsu Army Air School *

: Commandant of Akeno Army Aviation School and Commandant of Tokorozawa Army Aviation School, Director of Training Department, Tokorozawa Army Aviation School, Commandant of Central Army Aviation School Chief of Army Aeronautical Department (operative unit) * Takuma Shimoyama: Chief, Army Aeronautical Department (MajGen) * Himeji Sugiyama: Chief, Army Aeronautical Department * Michio Sugawara: Chief, Army Aeronautical Department *

: Chief, Army Aeronautical Department Deputy Chief of Army Aeronautical Department * Michio Sugawara: Deputy Chief of Army Aeronautical Department Chief of Second Bureau, Army Aeronautical Department *

: Chief, Second Bureau, Army Aeronautical Department Chief of Army Air Technical Laboratories *

: Chief, Army Air Technical Laboratories Technicals and Experts in Army Aeronautical Sciences * Michio Sugawara: Major (Air Force); Section Chief, Army Aeronautical Department *

: LtCol (Air Force), Officer attached; later member of Army Aeronautical Department *

: Officer attached to Army Air Technical Laboratories (MajGen) *

: Director of the Research Department, Tokorozawa Army Aviation School Imperial Japanese Army Air Force units 64th Sentai units (Bangkok Airfield, 1941) *Major/Lieutenant Colonel

Tateo Katō was a Japanese ace army aviator, credited with at least 18 aerial victories and who was honored posthumously by an award of the Order of the Golden Kite. Biography Katō was born and raised in present-day Asahikawa, Hokkaidō. His father Sergeant ...

: Group leader *Captain Katsumi Anma: Group Leader *Sergeant Shigeaku Wakayama *Lieutenant Hiroshi Okuyama *Lieutenant Tadashi Kataoka *Captain Haruyasu Maruo *Captain Yasuiko Kuroe *Lieutenant Yohei Hinoki *Lieutenant

Takeshi Endo Takeshi ( in hiragana or in katakana) is a masculine Japanese given name. Possible writings *武, "warrior" *毅, "strong" *猛, "fierce" *健, "healthy" *剛, "sturdy" *彪, "spotted" *威, "intimidate" *壮, "robust" *丈, "length" *雄, "mascu ...

*Sergeant Aikichi Misago *Sergeant Yoshiko Yasuda *Sergeant Chikara Goto * Corporal Hirano Kurai Chutai, 502nd Sentai unit (Nakatsu Airfield, 1945) *Staff Sergeant Joten Naito Hane Chutai,

2nd Air Army The 2nd Air Army (; 2 VA) was an air army of the Red Army Air Force (Soviet Air Force) during the Second World War. Formed in May 1942, the army fought in the Battle of Stalingrad and was one of the major Soviet air formations in the Battle of ...

unit (Hsinking East Airfield, 1945) * Captain Kamata

Kwantung Army Commanders (until 1945)

* Taka Hishikari: Commander in Chief Kwantung Army * Nobuyushi Muto: Commander in Chief Kwantung Army * Kenkichi Ueda: Commander of Kwantung Army *

: Commander of Kwantung Army * Yoshitake Muraoka: Commander of Kwantung Army * Senjuro Hayashi: Commander of Kwantung Army, Prime Minister * Yoshijirō Umezu: Commander of Kwantung Army, War Vice Minister * Jirō Minami: Commander of Kwantung Army; concurrently Official Ambassador to Manchukuo *

: Commander of Kwantung Army * Otozō Yamada: Commander of Kwantung Army * Takuma Shimoyama: Kwantung Army Headquarters; Adviser, Manchukuoan Military Administration Bureau * Shizuo Yokoyama: Commander of Railway Sector Headquarters, Kwantung Army * Atazo Adachi: Commander, Kwantung Army Railroad Command

Kwantung Government-General Administration

* Sadao Araki: Officer (Major), Kwantung Government-General *

: Army Staff Officer, Kwantung Government-General * Jun Ushiroku: Officer, assigned to Kwantung Government-General * Saburo Ando: Commandant of Port Arthur * H.Ukita: Commander of Ryojun Naval Guard District and Station For a complete structure see: *

Organization of the Kwantung Army of Japan Organization of the Kwantung Army which was an army group of the Imperial Japanese Army of Japan. The following are commanders and units of the Japanese army which was stationed in the Kwantung peninsula of Manchuria from 1910 to 1945. Officers ...

Structures in other Japanese armies

See: * Structure of the Taiwan Army of Japan * Organization of the Imperial Japanese Army, Hokkai (North) region *

Organization of the China Garrison detachment of the Imperial Japanese Army (to 1937) The was formed 1 June 1901 as the , as part of Japan's contribution to the international coalition in China during the Boxer Rebellion. It took the name China Garrison Army from 14 April 1912 and onward, though was typically referred to as t ...

* Structure of the Japanese Army in Mengjiang *

Organization of Japanese Expeditionary forces in China The was a field army of the Imperial Japanese Army during Second Sino-Japanese War. History The Japanese South China Area Army was formed on February 9, 1940 under the control of the China Expeditionary Army. It was transferred to direct control ...

Organization of Japanese forces in Southeast Asia Organization of Japanese forces in the South-East Asian theatre of World War II. Southern Army Command (Indochina HQ) *Hisaichi Terauchi, Commander of Southern Army * Seiichi Aoki, Assistant Chief of Staff Southern Army * Kitsuju Ayabe, Vice Ch ...

* Organization of the Imperial Japanese Navy Alaskan Strike Group * Structure of the Imperial Japanese forces in the South Seas Mandate * Organization of Japanese defensive units in Okinawa

Police

Commander in Chief of Kempeitai units

* Kesago Nakajima: Since 1921–41 lead the Kempeitai operation inside Japan and Asia during wartimes *

: Military Police (Gendarmerie) Commander, China Forces * Hideki Tōjō: Commanding General, Military Police, Kwantung Army *

: Commander, Military Police * Takeshi Mori: Deputy Chief, Military Police Headquarters * Shizuichi Tanaka: Chief, General Affairs Bureau; Military Police Forces Headquarters; Commander, Kwantung Army Military Police Units; Commander, Military Police Forces (LtGen) *

: Chief, General Affairs Bureau, Military Police; Headquarters, Kwantung Army; Commander, Kwantung Army Military Police * Moto Inkai: General Officer Commanding Kempeitai unit, Chosen * Rokuro Iwasa: Commander in Chief Kempeitai Forces, Tokyo Hq * Tuyoji Hirano: Commanding Officer Kempeitai Section 25th Army, Sumatra

Tokeitai police service units

* Isoge Taro:- Operative leader of Joho Kyoko (Japanese naval intelligence) and Tokeitai (naval military police)

Imperial Guards unit

* Sadao Araki: Company Commander, 1st Infantry Regiment, Imperial Guard Division, during Russo-Japanese War * Jinsaburo Mazaki: Regimental Commander, 1st Infantry, Imperial Guard Division * Makino Shiro: Battalion Commander, 4th Imperial Guard Infantry Regiment * Shōjirō Iida: Regimental Commander, 4th Infantry, Imperial Guard Division, General Officer Commanding 2nd Imperial Guards Division * Hisaichi Terauchi: Regimental Commander, 3rd Imperial Guards (Colonel); Chief of Staff, Imperial Guard Regiment; Chief of Staff, Imperial Guard Division * Korechika Anami: Regimental Commander, 2nd Imperial Guards unit * Fusataro Teshima: Imperial Guard Division Commander * Kioji Tominaga: Infantry Regiment Commander, 2nd Imperial Guards *

: Imperial Guard Division Commander; 2nd Imperial Guard Division Commander *

Nobuyoshi Obata Nobuyoshi (written: 信吉, 信芳, 信義, 信喜, 信由, 経惟) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese photographer and artist *, Japanese chief executive *, Japanese sumo wrestler *, Japanese com ...

: Commanding Officer, Transportation Regiment, Imperial Guard Division * Tadasu Kataoka: Commander, Imperial Guard Cavalry Regiment; Commander, Imperial Guard Reconnaissance Regiment * Tadamichi Kuribayashi: Commanding General, 2nd Imperial Guard Depot Division (LtGen) * Takeshi Mori: Commanding General, 1st Imperial Guard Division, killed during abortive coup d'état launched against him at Imperial Palace * Major-General Imaye Chief of Staff 2nd Imperial Guards Division, Malaya * Hideo Iwakuro: Commanding Officer 5th Imperial Guards Regiment, Malaya * Chikara Hiraoka: Chief Military Affairs Department 1st Imperial Guards Division * Yaezo Akashiba: General Officer Commanding 1st Imperial Guards Division, Tokyo * Prince Asaka Yasuhiko: General Officer Commanding 1st Imperial Guards Division * Susumu Harada: Commanding Officer 3rd Imperial Guards Brigade * Teiko Itada: General Officer Commanding Imperial Guards Division, China * Prince Un Yi: Commanding Officer 2nd Imperial Guards Brigade * Machijiri Kazumoto: Commanding Officer Imperial Guards Artillery Regiment * Tsuneori Kaya: General Officer Commanding 2nd Imperial Guards Depot Division * Prince Kan'in Kotohito: General Officer Commanding Imperial Guards Division *

Kazuo Mizutani was chief of staff to Takeshi Mori, commander of the First Imperial Guards Division, at the end of World War II. Mizutani was in his office, listening to Col. Masataka Ida's explanation of a plot to prevent Japan's surrender, when Gen. Mori wa ...

: Chief of Staff, First Imperial Guards Division in Eastern District Army

Commander of Keishicho Civil Police forces

* Juzo Nishio: Governor of the Tokyo metropolitan area * Kōichi Kido: Home Affairs Minister * Hideki Tōjō: Home Affairs Minister * Hiranuma Kiichirō: Home Affairs Minister * Saburo Ando : Home Affairs Minister * Tsuneo Matsudaira : Home Affairs Minister *

Akira Kazami Akira Kazami (風見章, ''Kazami Akira''; 1886–1961) was a Japanese politician. He served as Secretary-General of the First Konoe Cabinet (1937-1939)

: Justice Ministry *

: Justice Ministry * Hiranuma Kiichirō: Justice Minister

Operative Chief of Keishicho Civil Police units

* Tsukio Tomioka: Operative Keishicho Police Chief in Tokio metropolitan area * Sergeant Kiyokawa: Keishicho Officer Police

Tokko police service unit

* Kesago Nakajima: Since 1921–41 lead the State Police (Tokko) operations inside Japan and Asia during wartimes *

Officer Maruyama An officer is a person who has a position of authority in a hierarchical organization. The term derives from Old French ''oficier'' "officer, official" (early 14c., Modern French ''officier''), from Medieval Latin ''officiarius'' "an officer," fr ...

: underground unit, in Censorship department in Tokko Intelligence service, in Tokyo, Japan

Marine Ministries

War Relief Association

* Mitsumasa Yonai: adviser to War Relief Association

Marine Ministers

: Ministry of the Navy of Japan; Commandant in Kure and Yokosuka Naval Districts; Commander, China Navy Area Fleet; Chief of Naval General Staff *

: Marine Minister * Takasumi Oka: Marine minister *

: Marine Minister * Koshiró Oikawa: Marine Minister *

Naokuni Nomura was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy, and briefly served as Navy Minister in the 1940s. Biography Nomura was born in Hioki, Kagoshima prefecture. He graduated from the 35th class of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy on 20 November ...

: Marine Minister * Mitsumasa Yonai: Marine Minister; Commander-in-Chief, First Expeditionary Fleet ( Yangtze River); Commander Yokosuka and Sasebo Naval District; Commander-in-Chief, Combined Fleet; Imperial and Supreme War Councilor; Ex-Prime Minister and political adviser

Vice-Marine Ministers

* Kantarō Suzuki: Vice-Minister of Navy * Shigeyoshi Inoue: Vice-Minister of Navy

Private Secretary to the Minister of the Navy

* Sokichi Takagi: Private Secretary to the Minister of the Navy

Navy Admirals of the Fleet

* Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu * Isoroku Yamamoto *

* Mineichi Koga

Navy Admirals

* Isoroku Yamamoto * Koshiro Oikawa * Soemu Toyoda *

* Mitsumasa Yonai * Saito Makoto * Kantarō Suzuki * Chuichi Nagumo *

Hiroaki Abe was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. Biography Early career Abe was born in Yonezawa city in Yamagata prefecture in northern Japan. He graduated from the 39th class of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy in 1911, ...

Navy Staff College's Research Department

* Sokichi Takagi: Member in Navy Staff College's Research Department

Third Department in Marine Ministry

: Chief of Third Department in Marine Ministry

Bureau of Naval Affairs

Nobuzo Tohmatsu was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy in World War II who went on to become an accountant and a namesake of the global auditing firm Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, today the world's largest professional services company. Biography Born in T ...

: Chief of Naval Affairs

Bureau of Naval Supply

: Chief of Bureau of Naval Supply

Bureau of Naval Accounting

: Chief of Bureau of Naval Accounting

Naval Aviation Bureau

* Eikitchi Katagiri: Chief of Naval Aviation Bureau * Kazume Kinsei: Officer of Naval Aviation Bureau. Created some plans for bombing strikes against territory of the United States Imperial Japanese Navy Air Force units Fighter Unit (Carrier Akagi, 1941) *Lieutenant Commander Shigeru Itaya Tainan Air Corps (Denpasar Airfield, 1942) *1st Class Petty Officer

Saburō Sakai was a Japanese naval aviator and flying ace (''"Gekitsui-O"'', ) of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. Sakai had 28–64 aerial victories, including shared ones, according to official Japanese records, but his autobiography, ''Samura ...

Yokosuka Air Corps (Yokosuka Airfield, 1943) *Warrant Officer/Instructor Hiroyoshi Nishizawa 253rd Air Corps (Rabaul Airfield, 1944) *Warrant Officer

Tetsuzō Iwamoto Lieutenant Junior Grade was one of the top scoring aces among Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service (IJNAS) fighter pilots. He entered the Imperial Navy in 1934 and completed pilot training in December 1936. His first combat occurred over Chi ...

303 Squadron, 203rd Air Corps (Kagoshima Airfield, 1945) *Captain-Petty Officer Tanimizu

Navy General Staff's Intelligence Division

* Mineichi Koga: Chief of the Navy General Staff's Intelligence Division Japanese Navy Secret Service units * Isoge Taro:- Operative leader of Joho Kyoko (Japanese naval intelligence) and Tokeitai (naval military police) *

: Navy figure, in the Second Bureau (Intelligence Division), Japanese Army * Kanyei Chuyo: Commander in Japanese Navy Secret services. Directed the 8th Section "Yashika". Between this unit stay the "Tokyo Gimusho" office (the "Australian Section") linked with Japanese Naval Intelligence Staff under command of Imperial Navy General Staff. The office had orders to researching any affairs of the British Empire in Southeast Asia and Pacific Area.

Japanese Imperial Navy's Advisory Bureau on Jewish Affairs

Inuzuka Koreshige Captain was the head of the Japanese Imperial Navy's Advisory Bureau on Jewish Affairs from March 1939 until April 1942. Unlike his Imperial Japanese Army counterpart, Colonel Yasue Norihiro, he believed strongly in the ''Protocols of the Elders ...

: member of Japanese Imperial Navy's Advisory Bureau on Jewish Affairs

Operation Section of Naval General Staff

: Chief, of Operation Section of Naval General Staff

Plans Division Office of Operation Section in Naval General Staff

* Sadatoshi Tomioka: Chief in Plans Division Office of Operation Section in Naval General Staff;he was proposer and support plans for Australian Invasion.

Naval Research Section

* Sokichi Takagi: Chief of Naval Research Section

Technical Council in Navy Technical Department

* Mitsumasa Yonai: Member, Technical Council, Navy Technical Department, Yokosuka Naval Station

Naval Aviation Development Division in Munitions Ministry

* Takijiro Ohnishi: Chief of the Naval Aviation Development Division in the Munitions Ministry; was the Japanese Navy figure in same ministry

President of Japanese Naval Staff College

* Nobutake Kondō: President of the Japanese Naval Staff College

Navy Officers in Reserve list

* Mitsumasa Yonai: Navy officer placed on reserve list *

: retired to Reserve, January 1945 (at own request);

Navy

Chief of Naval General Staff

* Nobutake Kondō: Chief of Naval General Staff * Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu: Chief of Naval General Staff * Abo Kiyokazu: Chief of Naval General Staff *

: Chief of Naval General Staff *

Jisaburō Ozawa was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. He was the last Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet. Ozawa has been noted for his unusual height, measuring in at over tall, although his exact height has not been reliabl ...

: Chief of Naval General Staff * Kantarō Suzuki: Chief of Naval General Staff * Mineichi Koga: Chief of Naval General Staff

Staff Officer of Naval General Staff

: Staff Officer of Naval General Staff * Prince Kuni Asaakira: Staff Officer of Naval General Staff

Vice-Chief of Naval General Staff

: Vice-Chief, Naval General Staff *

Seiichi Itō was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy and the flag officer of the task force centered around the battleship on her final mission towards the end of World War II. Biography Early career Born in Miike County Takada Town (present da ...

: Vice-Chief of Naval Staff *

: Vice-Chief of Naval Staff * Mineichi Koga: Vice-Chief of the Naval General Staff

Naval General Staff

* Tamon Yamaguchi: Member, Naval General Staff *

: Member, Naval General Staff * Kantarō Suzuki: Member, Naval General Staff * Mitsumasa Yonai: Member, Naval General Staff * Prince Nobuhito: Officer attached to Naval General Staff

Commander-in-Chief of Combined Fleet

* Kantarō Suzuki: Commander-in-Chief of Combined Fleet, * Mitsumasa Yonai: Commander-in-Chief, Combined Fleet and, concurrently, First Fleet *

: Chief of Staff 1st Fleet—Chief of Staff, Combined Fleet * Isoroku Yamamoto: Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet * Mineichi Koga: Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet * Soemu Toyoda: Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet *

: Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet

Vice-Commander of Combined Fleet

: Vice-Commander of the Combined Fleet

Chief of Staff of Combined Fleet

: Chief of Staff of the Combined Fleet * Ryunosuke Kusaka: Chief of Staff of the Combined Fleet * Nobutake Kondō: Chief of Staff of the Combined Fleet

Commander of First Naval Fleet

* Mitsumasa Yonai: Commander of First Naval Fleet * Chuichi Nagumo: Commander of First Naval Fleet * Isoroku Yamamoto: Commander of First Naval Fleet

Commander of 2nd Naval Fleet

* Mitsumasa Yonai: Commander of 2nd Naval Fleet * Nobutake Kondō: Commander of 2nd Naval Fleet * Mineichi Koga: Commander of 2nd Naval Fleet

Commander of 3rd Naval Fleet

* Mitsumasa Yonai: Commander of 3rd Naval Fleet

First Naval Air Fleet

* Chuichi Nagumo: Commander of the First Naval Air Fleet * Kiyohide Shima: Commander of the First Naval Air Fleet * Kinpei Teraoka: Commander of the First Naval Air Fleet * Takijiro Ohnishi: Commander of the First Naval Air Fleet

Senior Staff Officer of the First Naval Air Fleet

* Tamotsu Oishi: Senior Staff Officer of the First Naval Air Fleet

Second Navy Air Fleet

: Commander of the Second Navy Air Fleet

Fifth Navy Air Fleet

: Commander of the Fifth Navy Air Fleet

11th Navy Air Fleet

Nishizō Tsukahara , was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. Biography Tsukahara was born in Fukui Prefecture, but his official residence was Kofu city, Yamanashi Prefecture, where he was raised. Tsukahara graduated from the 36th class of ...

: Commander of the 11th Navy Air Fleet * Jinichi Kusaka: Commander of 11th Navy Air Fleet

26th Air Flotilla

Masafumi Arima was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy in World War II. An experienced aviator, he is sometimes credited with being the first to use the ''kamikaze'' attack, although official accounts may have been invented for propaganda purposes. Arima ...

: Commander of the 26th Air Flotilla

Fourth Naval Fleet

* Shigeyoshi Inouye: Commander of Fourth Navy Fleet

Eighth Naval Fleet

* Gunichi Mikawa: Commander of Eighth Naval Fleet * Sentaro Omori: Commander of Eighth Naval Fleet

Third Destroyer Flotilla

Matsuji Ijuin Baron was a commander in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II, who was promoted posthumously to vice admiral after being killed in action in combat off Saipan. Life and military career Born in the Kōjimachi district of Tokyo, Ijui ...

: Commander of Third Destroyer Flotilla

China Navy Area Fleet

: Commander, China Area Fleet

1st Carrier Division

* Chuichi Nagumo: Commander of 1st CarDiv * Tamotsu Oishi: Senior staff officer in the 1st Carrier Division

Carrier Division Three

* Sueo Obayashi: Commander of CarDiv Three * Tamon Yamaguchi: Commander of 3rd CarDiv

1st CarDiv

* Chuichi Hara: Commander of 1st CarDiv * Tamon Yamaguchi: Commander of 1st CarDiv

2nd Carrier Unit

Kakuji Kakuta , was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. He is noted for his role in commanding Japanese naval aviation units in the Pacific War. Biography Kakuta was a native of rural Minamikanbara, Niigata Prefecture, Japan. He gra ...

: Commander of 2nd Carrier Unit

3rd Destroyer Flotilla

* Shintaro Hashimoto: Commander of 3rd Destroyer Flotilla *

: Commander of 3rd Destroyer Flotilla

2nd Destroyer Group

Tameichi Hara was an Imperial Japanese Navy, Imperial Japanese naval commander during the Pacific War and the author of the IJN manual on torpedo attack techniques, notable for his skill in torpedo warfare and night fighting. Hara was the only IJN destroyer ...

: Commander of 2nd Destroyer Group

10th Destroyer Flotilla

Susumu Kimura , was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. He commanded Destroyer Squadron 10 which participated in several important naval battles at the Battle of Midway, Guadalcanal Campaign, and the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Biography K ...

: Commander of 10th Destroyer Flotilla

10th Destroyer Unit

: Commander of 10th Destroyer Unit

22nd Destroyer Division

* Rear Admiral Shima: Commander of 22nd Destroyer Division

6th Destroyer Flotilla

* Sadamichi Kajioka: Commander of 6th Destroyer Flotilla

2nd Destroyer Unit

Raizo Tanaka Raizo or Raizō is a Japanese-origin masculine given name. It is uncommon as a surname. People with the name or its variants include: * Raizo Ichikawa, Japanese film and kabuki actor * Raizo Matsuno (松野頼三 Matsuno Raizō; 1917 - 2006), ...

: Commander of 2nd Destroyer Unit "Tokyo Express"

3rd Destroyer Flotilla

* Shintaro Hashimoto: Commander of 3rd Destroyer Flotilla

4th Destroyer Division

* Kosaku Aruga: Commander of 4th Destroyer Division

4th Destroyer Flotilla

* Tamotsu Takama: Commander of 4th Destroyer Flotilla

5th Cruiser Division

* Takeo Takagi: Commander of 5th Cruiser Division *

Aritomo Goto Aritomo (written: 有朋 or 存知) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Imperial Japanese Navy admiral *, Japanese general and Prime Minister of Japan {{given name Japanese masculine given names ...

: Commander of 5th Cruiser Division

18th Cruiser Division

* Rear Admiral Marushige: Commander of 18th Cruiser Division

8th Cruiser Division

: Commander of 8th Cruiser Division * Tadaichi Hara: Commander of 8th Cruiser Division

6th Cruiser Division

: Commander of 6th Cruiser Division

4th Cruiser Division (1st section)

* Nobutake Kondō: Commander of 4th Cruiser Division

5th Cruiser Division

* Takeo Takagi: Commander of 5th Cruiser Division * Sentaro Omori: Commander of 5th Cruiser Division

7th Cruiser Division

Takeo Kurita was a vice admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during World War II. Kurita commanded IJN 2nd Fleet, the main Japanese attack force during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval battle in history. Biography Early life Takeo Kurita ...

: Commander of 7th Cruiser Division *

Shoji Nishimura A is a door, window or room divider used in traditional Japanese architecture, consisting of translucent (or transparent) sheets on a lattice frame. Where light transmission is not needed, the similar but opaque ''fusuma'' is used (oshiire/ ...

: Commander of 7th Cruiser Division

1st Battleship Division

* Isoroku Yamamoto: Commander of 1st Battleship Division

3rd Battleship Division (1st section)

* Gunichi Mikawa: Commander of 3rd Battleship Division

3rd Submarine Sqdn

Teruhisa Komatsu Marquis was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy in World War II. Born as HIH Kitashirakawa-no-miya Teruhisa, as the younger son of HIH Prince Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa, his title was devolved from royal status that that of the ''kazoku'' pe ...

: Commander of 3rd Submarine Sqdn

5th Submarine Sqdn

* Daigo Tadashige: Commander of 5th Submarine Sqdn

13th Submarine Sqdn

* Takeharu Miyazaki: Commander of 13th Submarine Sqdn

First Submarine Fleet

Tatsunosuke Ariizumi Tatsunosuke (written: 達之助, 達之輔 or 辰之助) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese translator and writer *, Japanese shogi player *, Japanese businessman and politician *, Japanese politi ...

: Commander of First Submarine Fleet

Sixth Submarine Fleet

* Daigo Tadashige: Commander of Sixth Submarine Fleet

1st Transport Group

* Kunizo Kanaoka: Commander of 1st Transport Group

2nd Transport Group

* Shigoroku Nakayama: Commander of 2nd Transport Group

3rd Transport Group

: Commander of 3rd Transport Group

Seaplane Tender Group

* Riutaro Fujita: Commander of Seaplane Tender Group

Minesweeper Group

* Sadatomo Miyamoto: Commander of Minesweeper Group

First Naval Striking Force

: Commander of First Naval Striking Force (

Battle of Leyte Gulf The Battle of Leyte Gulf ( fil, Labanan sa golpo ng Leyte, lit=Battle of Leyte gulf; ) was the largest naval battle of World War II and by some criteria the largest naval battle in history, with over 200,000 naval personnel involved. It was fou ...

, Philippines Campaign)

Officer in Japanese Vessel Raiders Force(1941-42)

* Tamotsu Oishi: He assigned the lead of Aikoku Maru, unit in Japanese Vessel Raiders Force during the Navy Raiding campaign in the Indian Seas area. *See List of Japanese Auxiliary Cruiser Commerce Raiders

Sasebo 7th Special Naval Landing Force

* Takeo Sugai: Commander of Sasebo 7th Special Naval Landing Force

Chief of Staff of the Maizuru Naval Base

* Sokichi Takagi: chief of staff of the Maizuru Naval Base * Kiyohide Shima: chief of Staff of the Maizuru Naval District

First Naval District

* Michitaro Totsuka: Commander of the First Naval District

Kure and Yokosuka Naval Districts

: Commandant, Yokosuka and Kure Naval Districts * Mitsumasa Yonai: commanded Yokosuka Naval District

Sasebo Naval District

* Mitsumasa Yonai: commanded Sasebo Naval District

Sasebo Naval Yard

: commanded Sasebo Naval Yard

Yokosuka Naval Base

* Soemu Toyoda: Commander of the Yokosuka Naval Base

Kure Naval Base

* Ibō Takahashi: Commander of the Kure Naval Base

Chinkai Naval Station (Chosen)

* Mitsumasa Yonai: Vice-Admiral, commanded Chinkai Naval Station ( Chosen)

Ryojun Naval Station (Kwantung)

* H.Ukita: Vice-Admiral, commanded Ryojun Naval Station ( Kwantung)

Central Government Ministries

Kodoha ideological advisers in government

* Sadao Araki * Hideki Tōjō *

* Jinsaburo Mazaki *

* Hideyoshi Obata *

* Hajime Sugiyama * Yoshijirō Umezu * Tetsuzan Nagata

Chief of Cabinet Secretary

: Chief of Cabinet Secretary

Welfare Minister;)

* Kōichi Kido: Education, Welfare and Home Minister, as well as chief secretary to the '' Naidaijin'' and last proper ''Naidaijin'' (Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal). He is recognised as one of the principal supporters of General Tojo's policies. During his period as Home Affairs Minister, he commanded the '' Keishicho'' (Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department), and national civil police forces.

Minister of Education

* Sadao Araki: charge of Minister of Education; Company Commander, 1st Infantry Regiment, Imperial Guard Division, during the Russo-Japanese War; principal nationalist thinker and right-wing political adviser in the country; War minister; founder of

Kokuhonsha The was a nationalist political society in late 1920s and early 1930s Japan. History The ''Kokuhonsha'' was founded in 1924 by conservative Minister of Justice and President of the House of Peers, Kiichirō Hiranuma. It called on Japanese pat ...

(Society for the Foundation of the State) right-wing

secret society A secret society is a club or an organization whose activities, events, inner functioning, or membership are concealed. The society may or may not attempt to conceal its existence. The term usually excludes covert groups, such as intelligence a ...

* Hideki Tōjō: Minister of Education * Kōichi Kido: concurrently Minister of Education

Imperial Youth Federation/Imperial Youth Corps

: Imperial Youth Federation and Imperial Youth Corps Chief; in charge of young nationalist and militarists local indoctrination, following official doctrines amongst Minister of Education policies.

Minister of State Affairs

: Minister of State Affairs

Finance Minister

Okinori Kaya was the Minister of Finance of Japan between 1941 and 1944. He advocated financing the Second World War and decreasing Chinese resistance by selling opiates to the Chinese. In 1945, he was captured by the Allies, tried by the International Milit ...

: Finance Minister, also opium dealer to the

Chinese Chinese can refer to: * Something related to China * Chinese people, people of Chinese nationality, citizenship, and/or ethnicity **''Zhonghua minzu'', the supra-ethnic concept of the Chinese nation ** List of ethnic groups in China, people of va ...

and government supporter *

Kazuo Aoki was a bureaucrat and cabinet minister in the Empire of Japan, serving as Minister of Finance, and Minister of Greater East Asia. Biography Aoki was born to a farming family in Sarashina District, Nagano prefecture (now part of the city of N ...

: Finance Minister * Ikeda Shigeaki Minister of Finance. *

Masatsune Ogura was a Japanese politician and business man. In 1930 he became the president of Sumitomo Group. During his period as president the company developed into a zaibatsu. The Ogura family served as retainers for the Nishio Clan which held possessi ...

: Finance Minister (with

Sumitomo The is one of the largest Japanese ''keiretsu'', or business groups, founded by Masatomo Sumitomo (1585-1652) around 1615 during the early Edo period. History The Sumitomo Group traces its roots to a bookshop in Kyoto founded circa 1615 by Masa ...

Clan Links) * Seihin Ikeda: Ex-Finance Minister, also political adviser (other figure of Zaibatsu groups in government)

Government Finances and Economics Entities

'National Economic policies' *

: Political Adviser charged with composing new economic policies, and Chief of Economic Project Department and Chief of Cabinet Secretary 'Planning Bureau in Cabinet Resources Board' *

: Chief of Planning Bureau in Cabinet Resources Board 'Member in Cabinet Research Board' *

: concurrently Member, Cabinet Research Board, 'Imperial Planning Institute' * Takazo Numata: Head of 1st Department, Planning Institute '1st Department, Planning Institute (Cabinet Research Board Unit)' * Takazo Numata:Chief of 1st Department, Planning Institute Unit, inside of Cabinet Research Board 'Cabinet Planning Board' * Sumihisa Ikeda: President of Cabinet Planning Board * Kenryo Sato: President of Central Government Cabinet Planning Board for sometimes *

: President of the Cabinet Planning Board, Minister of State (Without Portfolio); also providing guidance for Wang Ching-wei's new regime at Nanking, also Imperial nominee to the House of Peers 'First Bureau, Cabinet Planning Board' *

: Chief of First Bureau, Cabinet Planning Board 'General Affairs Bureau, Cabinet Planning Board' *

: Chief of General Affairs Bureau, Cabinet Planning Board 'Secretary-General of the Asia Development Board' *

: Secretary-General of the Asia Development Board 'Political Affairs Section of the Asia Development Board' *

: first Chief of the Political Affairs Section of the Asia Development Board (China Affairs Board) *

: Chief of Political Affairs Section of the Asia Development Board

Commerce and Industry Minister

* Ichizō Kobayashi: Commerce and Industry Ministry (also chairman of Tokyo Gasu Denky); ardent follower of Hitler´s doctrines * Seizo Sakonji: Commerce and Industry Minister (Army figure in government) *

: Commerce and Industry, Foreign Affairs Minister and Marine Minister, (with Mitsui Clan connection) * Hideki Tōjō: Minister of Commerce and Industry * Ikeda Shigeaki: Minister of Commerce and Industry *

: Minister of Commerce and Industry

Government Industry, Commerce and Trading Organizations

'Nan-yo Kyokai' * Fujiyama Raita: Vice-president of "Nan-yo Kyokai" (South Seas Society), as government-Navy Trade Agency in South Seas Mandate 'Nanyo Sangyo Kaisha' * Masaichi Hanaoka Directing Manager of Nanyo Sangyo Kaisha in Tokyo, Japan 'Nanyo Kohatsu Kaisha' *

Haruji Matsue was a Japanese entrepreneur and the first person to manufacture the sugar cube in Japan. His brother, Major General Toyohisa Matsue, was commandant of the Bandō prisoner-of-war camp in World War I. Biography Early years Matsue was born in Ai ...

Directing-Manager of

Nanyo Kohatsu Kabushiki Kaisha The South Seas Mandate, officially the Mandate for the German Possessions in the Pacific Ocean Lying North of the Equator, was a League of Nations mandate in the "South Seas" given to the Empire of Japan by the League of Nations following W ...

(South Seas Developing Company)

Minister of Trade

* Hideki Tōjō: Minister of Trade

Minister of State (without portfolio)

: Minister of State (Without portfolio) in central government * Kasiburo Ando: Minister of State without Portfolio * Hiranuma Kiichirō: Minister of State without Portfolio * Toji Yasui: Minister of State without Portfolio

Minister of Agriculture

Yoriyasu Arima was a Japanese politician before and during World War II. His wife was the daughter of Prince Takeda Tsunehisa. Biography Arima was born in Tokyo as a son of the former ''daimyō'' of Kurume Domain (now part of Fukuoka Prefecture). He studied ...

: Leader in Imperial Farmers Association, political adviser, later Minister of Agriculture

Communications Minister

Shōzō Murata was a Japanese entrepreneur, cabinet minister and diplomat before, during and after World War II. Biography Murata was a native of Tokyo and a graduated the Tokyo Higher Commerce School (now Hitotsubashi University) in 1900.Osaka Shosen Kaisha Mitsui O.S.K. Lines ( ja, 株式会社商船三井, Kabushiki-gaisha Shōsen Mitsui; abbreviated MOL) is a Japanese transport company headquartered in Toranomon, Minato, Tokyo, Japan. It is one of the largest shipping companies in the world. MO ...

Company, insider of

Clan) * Nobofumi Ito: Chief of

Information Department An information school (sometimes abbreviated I-school or iSchool) is a university-level institution committed to understanding the role of information in nature and human endeavors. Synonyms include school of information, department of informati ...

* Koh Ishii: Ex servant in Foreign Affairs Ministry; was Official Government spokesman 'Official Journalists' * Teiichi Muto: Official Journalist in Asahi Shimbun and Japan Times and Advertiser * Shiro Mashida: Official journalist in Asahi Shimbun * Masanori Ito: Official Journalist and Director in Japan Times and Mail * Akinaru Jisawa: Official journalist in Chungai Shogyo 'Support writers and military experts' * Yasuo Mishina: Military strategist *

Tadashi Saito is a Japanese rower. He competed in the men's eight event at the 1960 Summer Olympics The 1960 Summer Olympics ( it, Giochi Olimpici estivi del 1960), officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad ( it, Giochi della XVII Olimpiade) and ...

: Army expert * Otsughi Narita: Military thinker *

Kinoaki Matsuo was a Foreign Affairs Officer and Navy Admiralty Liaison, Black Dragon Society member, writer, and Japanese Navy strategizer. ''How Japan Plans to Win'' In 1940 Kinoaki Matsuo published a book on how Japan planned to win a war with the United Sta ...

: Navy Theoretician 'Official war correspondent' * Eiji Suzuki: a war correspondent for Yomiuri Shimbun in wartimes

President of International Cultural Relations Society

* Aisuke Kabayama: President of International Cultural relations Society

Justice Minister

Akira Kazami Akira Kazami (風見章, ''Kazami Akira''; 1886–1961) was a Japanese politician. He served as Secretary-General of the First Konoe Cabinet (1937-1939)

: Justice Minister,

Fumimaro Konoye Duke, Prince was a Japanese politician and Prime Minister of Japan, prime minister. During his tenure, he presided over the Second Sino-Japanese War, Japanese invasion of China in 1937 and the breakdown in relations with the United States, w ...

partner, led the Keishicho (Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department) *

: Justice Minister; commander of the Keishicho (Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department), and leader in Taisei Yokusankai (Imperial Rule Assistance Association) group * Hiranuma Kiichirō: Minister of Justice for sometimes

Home Affairs Minister

* Takejiro Tokonami: Home Affairs Minister; founder of

Kokusui-kai The Kokusui-kai ("Patriotic Society") (國粹会), founded in 1958, is a Tokyo-based yakuza organization with an estimated 1000 members. Despite its relatively low membership, it is widely viewed as a wealthy and successful gang, controlling Toky ...

, one of Yakuza organization. Greater Japan Patriotic Society * Kiichiro Hiranuma: Prime Minister, with

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support; also Home Affairs Minister; also chief of the Keishicho (Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department), also founder and leader in the " Shintoist Rites Research Council" organization * Saburo Ando: Home Affairs Minister * Hideki Tōjō: Home Affairs Minister * Kōichi Kido: Home Affairs Minister * Tsuneo Matsudaira: Home Affairs Minister

Diet members

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: was a Diet member who co-signed the declaration of war against the United States * Chikao Fujisawa: Member of Diet (Parliament), supporter of

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: Right-wing ideologist, also Imperial Youth Federation and

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leader; in charge of young nationalist and militarists local indoctrination, member of House of Representatives of Japan and vice-president of Diet; instigator of the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Foreign Affairs

Foreign Affairs Minister

* Nobuyuki Abe: Foreign Affair Minister * Kijuro Shidehara Foreign Affairs Minister * Hideki Tōjō: concurrently Minister of Foreign Affairs * Aoki Shūzō: Foreign Minister *

Shigemitsu Mamoru was a Japanese diplomat and politician in the Empire of Japan, who served as Minister for Foreign Affairs (Japan), Minister of Foreign Affairs three times during and after World War II as well as the Deputy Prime Minister of Japan. As civili ...

: Foreign Minister *

: Minister of Foreign Affairs * Yosuke Matsuoka: Foreign Affairs Minister * Hachiro Arita: Foreign Affairs Minister, believer in the Axis Powers alliance * Shigenori Tōgō: Foreign Affairs Minister * Kichisaburō Nomura: Foreign Affairs Minister, also Japanese Ambassador in United States

Foreign Affairs Officers

* Kanji Kato: High-ranking official in Foreign Affairs Ministry * Kaoru Muramatsu: Official of the Research Section of Ministry of Foreign Affairs *

: Foreign Affairs officer, also intelligence unit when serving as liaison between the Japanese Foreign Office and the Admiralty; a Black Dragon Society member * Mr.Yosano: Foreign Office high-ranking official;as liaison in IGHQ-Army/Navy Intelligence section. * Tomohiko Ushiba: Foreign Office high-ranking official *

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: Foreign Ministry high-ranking official * Ishiguro Shiro: Foreign Ministry high-ranking official, and Civil Government expert in Jews Affairs in wartimes

Foreign Affairs Officers on Diplomatic Missions

* Ichizō Kobayashi: Industrialist and Government supporter in Diplomatic Mission to Ducht Indies (1940) * Yatsuji Nagai: Army attaché and Diplomatic in Matsuoka's mission to Europe and Russia * Hideo Iwakuro: Army attaché and Foreign Affairs officer, provided diplomatic support to the Washington mission * Kaname Wakasugi: special aide to Nomura Mission to Washington * Saburō Kurusu: special ambassador in diplomatic mission to Washington

Overseas ambassadors

* Nobuyuki Abe: Ambassador to Nanking-China * Kichisaburō Nomura: Foreign Affairs Minister, also Japanese Ambassador in United States *

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: a one-time Japanese ambassador to Italy *

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: Foreign Affairs Minister; Japanese Ambassador to Italy, diplomatic advisor and firm supporter of the Axis Powers alliance * Shigeru Yoshida: Japanese ambassador in Italy and England *

Hiroshi Ōshima Baron was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army, Japanese ambassador to Germany before and during World War II and (unwittingly) a major source of communications intelligence for the Allies. His role was perhaps best summed up by General Geo ...

: Japanese Ambassador to Germany, also

right-wing Right-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that view certain social orders and hierarchies as inevitable, natural, normal, or desirable, typically supporting this position on the basis of natural law, economics, authorit ...

follower and military attaché working for alliance between Japan and Nazi Germany ( Anti-Comintern Pact, 1937; Tripartite Alliance, 1940) * Renzo Sawada: Japanese Ambassador in France for some time * Naotake Satō: wartime Japanese Ambassador to the

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: Official Japanese Ambassador in

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(until 1937) and French Indochina in 1940-41 * Yakichiro Suma: Japan's Ambassador in Spain *

Morito Morishima is a Japanese aikido teacher holding the rank of 8th dan in the Aikikai . Born in Fukushima, Japan, his first contact with aikido was in 1963 at the Asia University in Tokyo where he followed a class taught by Nobuyoshi Tamura. The next ye ...

: Japanese Ambassador in Portugal *

Mamoru Shinozaki was a journalist for Dentsu (later Dōmei) and spy for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in pre-war years, a military executive in Japanese-occupied Singapore, and a businessman and writer in post-war years. He is known for the in 1940, and fo ...

: Diplomat Officer, Japanese Embassy in

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* Jirō Minami: Kwantung Army - concurrently Ambassador to

Manchukuo Manchukuo, officially the State of Manchuria prior to 1934 and the Empire of (Great) Manchuria after 1934, was a puppet state of the Empire of Japan in Northeast China, Manchuria from 1932 until 1945. It was founded as a republic in 1932 afte ...

* Taka Hishikari: Kwantung Army - Ambassador to Manchukuo *

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: Japanese Ambassador in Nanjing during Wang Jingwei administration *

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: Japanese Diplomatic Officer in Brisbane, Australia * Gen Debuchi Special Envoy to diplomatic mission to Australia

Military attachés in foreign service

See:

Japanese military attachés in foreign service List of Japanese military attachés in foreign service Austria-Hungary * Shizuo Matsuoka: military attaché, Austria-Hungary, September 1909 *Hisaichi Terauchi: assistant military attaché, Austria-Hungary, December 1911 *Tomoyuki Yamashita: milit ...

Japanese Overseas Consul-Generals

* Mr.Loxton was European Honorary-Consul at Japanese service in Brisbane * Kojiro Inoue Japanese Consul-General in Sydney * Matatoshi Saito: Japanese Consul-General in Batavia (before 1941) *

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: Japanese Consul-General in Batavia * Mr.Kita: Japanese Consul-General in Honolulu * Chiune Sugihara: Japanese Consul-General in Kovno, Lithuania

Japanese Overseas Affairs Minister

: Ministry of Greater East Asia (Japan) *

: Ministry of Greater East Asia (Japan) * Shigenori Tōgō: Minister for Colonization, later the Ministry of Greater East Asia (Japan)

Political Affairs Section of the Asia Development Board

: Chief of the Political Affairs Section of the Asia Development Board (China Affairs Board), Secretary-General of the Asia Development Board

Governor-General in Exterior Provinces (1944-45)

* Nobuyuki Abe: Governor-General of Chosen (Korea) * Otozō Yamada: Governor-General of

Kwantung Leased Territory The Kwantung Leased Territory ( ja, 關東州, ''Kantō-shū''; ) was a leased territory of the Empire of Japan in the Liaodong Peninsula from 1905 to 1945. Japan first acquired Kwantung from the Qing Empire in perpetuity in 1895 in the Trea ...

* Toshio Otsu: Governor-General of Karafuto (Sakhalin) *

: Governor-General of Taiwan (Formosa) *

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: Governor-General of

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(Micronesia)

Tibetan Department (1942)

Japanese and foreign politician and military experts related to Buddhist and Tibetan topics group inside of foreign affairs ministry during 1942, for research the possibility of any operations or incursion in Tibet: * Aoki Bunkyo *Lt.col

Ishiwara Kanji was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II. He and Itagaki Seishirō were the men primarily responsible for the Mukden Incident that took place in Manchuria in 1931. Early life Ishiwara was born in Tsuruoka City, Yamagata Pref ...

*Lt. Nomoto Jinzo * Goshima Tokujiro * Yamaji Yasujiro * Tsarong Shape *Regent

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* Anchin Hultukhu * Dilowa Hutukhu

Japanese experts in Jewish Affairs (1938-42)

Military and Civil experts (Jewish & Manchurian Think Tank Groups)

*Captain

: Japanese Imperial Navy's Advisory Bureau on Jewish Affairs from March 1939 until April 1942. *Colonel Yasue Norihiro: Army expert in Jewish topics and anti-Semitic ideology, believing strongly in the ''

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''. * Ishiguro Shiro: Foreign Ministry high-ranking official *

Setsuzo Kotsuji was a Japanese Orientalist, and the son of a Shinto priest who descended from a long line of Shinto priests. During the Holocaust he helped Jewish refugees to escape the Nazis, arranging for them to stay first in Kobe and later in Japanese-occup ...

:Government Officer, the only Japanese in the world at the time to speak and read Hebrew. *Lieutenant-Colonel

*Colonel Seishirō Itagaki *Industrialist Yoshisuke Aikawa *Japanese Consul in

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, Chiune Sugihara *General Kiichiro Higuchi: Japanese Army contact with Manchu Jew anticommunist movement and its supporter.

East Jew leader and Japanese supporter in Manchukuo

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: Manchu Jew leader, founder of Far Eastern Jewish Council and Betarim Jew Zionists Movement.

1938 Five Minister Conference

At the 1938 Five Ministers' Conference, five of the most powerful men in Japan gathered to discuss the ideas and plans of their 'Jewish experts'. *Prime Minister Prince

*Foreign Minister Hachirō Arita *Army Minister Seishirō Itagaki *Naval Minister

*Minister of Finance, Commerce, and Industry Ikeda Shigeaki

German Liaison in Jewish topics (until 1942)

*Colonel

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: chief of the Gestapo, was the Nazi liaison with Japanese military and government on the Jewish question. *Dr. Franz Joseph Spahn: leader-designee and political adviser of the NSDAP (Nazi) party in Japan in that period.

Government Supporters

Other close military government collaborators

* Seizo Arisue *

* Gun Hashimoto * Saburo Hayashi * Masao Inaba * Seijun Inada *

* Susumu Nishiura * Tokutaro Sakurai *

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* Mitsuru Ushijima * Masao Watanabe * Hiromichi Yahara * Yasuyo Yamazaki

Ultra-nationalist supporters close to the government

* Prince Kan'in Kotohito: ultra-nationalist and

supporter; later he was sent to Southeast Asia, in order to convey the Imperial message concerning the cessation of hostilities. * Prince Asaka Yasuhiko: Right-wing partisan, also involved in the Rape of Nanking, with

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direct orders to supervise operations along General Kesago Nakajima, one of Operative Commanders in area; later returned to China in order to convey the Imperial Message concerning the cessation of hostilities. *

: Nationalist follower; possibly was chief of Japanese Secret Services in Manchukuo, coordinated military and civil actions. Had a direct link with Imperial Family. Later sent to

, with orders to convey the Imperial Message concerning the cessation of hostilities, but decided instead to take action against Soviet forces in the area. * Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu: Right-winger, representative of the Emperor at High Command Conferences, also Chief of Naval General Staff of the Imperial Navy forces * Yoshio Kodama: Right-wing industrialist, '' yakuza'' chief and honorary

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, supporter of right-wing government policies * Ryoichi Sasakawa: Another right-wing follower, and

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thinker * Nobuyuki Abe: Ex-Prime Minister, Governor-General of Chosen and political advisor *

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: Founder of right-wing publishing firm '' Genyōsha'' and lator Black Dragon Society, also political advisor of Greater Japan Patriotic Society, ''yakuza'' organization. * Tokutaro Kimura: Tokutaro Kimura Ex-Chief of Greater Japan Martial Virtue Society, ''

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'' section, also ex-Chief of Imperial Japan Bar Association.

Nobility members, entrepreneurs and other supporters of Government and military establishment

Nobility members

*Count Kabayama Aisuke *Count Hisaichi Terauchi *Count Hiranuma Kiichirō *Count

*Viscount

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*Baron Kōki Hirota *Baron Tomoshige Samejima *Baron

*Baron

*Baron Sadao Araki *Baron

*Baron

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*Marquis Kōichi Kido *Marquis Daigo Tadashige *Marquis

*Marquis Ōkuma Shigenobu

Entrepreneurs

* Seihin Ikeda * Ichizō Kobayashi: (President of Tokyo Gasu Denky and

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group representative) *

;as

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: (

representative) *

: (representative of the

and Mitsui group) * Yoshisuke Aikawa: (Representative of

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group) * Fuji Fujisawa * Noburu Ohtani: (President of N.Y.K. and

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figure) * Fujiyama Raita:Private businessman with

links in South Seas Mandate * Kijirō Nambu:he was founded and led Nambu Arms Manufacturing Company during wartime

Other supporters

* Teiichi Muto: Government journalist in Asahi Shimbun and Japan Time and Advertiser Official News *

: Adviser in Foreign Affairs ministry, also heavy believer of Axis Powers alliance and Overseas Ambassador * Yakichiro Suma: Spokesman in Foreign Affairs ministry; later official overseas Ambassador. * Koh Ishii: Ex servant in Foreign Affairs Ministry and official Government spokesman * Shūmei Ōkawa: Ultranationalist and

thinker, believer in government and military policies *

Akira Kazami Akira Kazami (風見章, ''Kazami Akira''; 1886–1961) was a Japanese politician. He served as Secretary-General of the First Konoe Cabinet (1937-1939)

: Konoye political partidaire and Justice Minister * Fumio Gotō: Konoye political partner; also another

ideologist, supporter of Militarists *

: Right-wing and Army follower charged to compose the economic policies of

and Japan.

Notes

References

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