This is a select list of graduates from the Japanese Imperial Military Academies (1891–1934). It is not complete.

Graduates from the Imperial Japanese Army Academy (Military Academy)

1891 Class

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 ...

: 1891

1897 Class

* Sadao Araki: November * Jinsaburo Mazaki: November

1904 Class

* Tetsuzan Nagata: October

1905 Class

Michitarō Komatsubara was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army, during the Nomonhan Incident. Biography A native of Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture, where his father was a naval engineer, Komatsubara graduated from the 18th class of the Imperial Japanese Army A ...

1906 Class

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 ...

1908 Class

* Naruhiko Higashikuni

1912 Class

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 ...

: May

1915 Class

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 ...

: May

1921 Class

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 ...

: assigned to Military Academy, April

1922 Class

Takushiro Hattori was an Imperial Japanese Army officer and government official. During World War II, he alternately served as the chief of the Army General Staff's Operations Section and secretary to Prime Minister Hideki Tojo. After the war ended, he served as an ...

: July

1923 class

* Hiromichi Yahara

Graduates from the Japanese Army War College

The following were notable graduates of the Army War College:

1903 Class

* Hisaichi Terauchi: December

1909 Class

* Otozō Yamada: December

1910 Class

Toshizō Nishio was a Japanese general, considered to be one of the Imperial Japanese Army's most successful and ablest strategists during the Second Sino-Japanese War, who commanded the Japanese Second Army during the first years after the Marco Polo Bridge In ...

: graduated from War College, assigned to Military Affairs Bureau, November *

Koiso Kuniaki 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 ...

: November *

Gen Sugiyama was a Japanese field marshal and one of the leaders of Japan's military throughout most of World War II. As Army Minister in 1937, Sugiyama was a driving force behind the launch of hostilities against China in retaliation for the Marco Polo Bri ...

: November * Shunroku Hata: graduated with top scholarly rank, November

1911 Class

* Yoshijirō Umezu: November * Tetsuzan Nagata: November

1912 Class

* Kenji Doihara: November

1913 Class

* Yasuji Okamura: November

1914 Class

Rikichi Andō was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army and 19th and final Japanese Governor-General of Taiwan from 30 December 1944 to October 1945. Biography Early career Andō was a native of Miyagi Prefecture. He served as an instructor at the Army Wa ...

: December *

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 ...

: November * Naruhiko Higashikuni

1915 Class

* Hideki Tōjō: December * Masaharu Homma: December * Shōjirō Iida: December * Hitoshi Imamura: December * Masakazu Kawabe

1916 Class

* Seishirō Itagaki: November *

Tomoyuki Yamashita was a Japanese officer and convicted war criminal, who was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. Yamashita led Japanese forces during the invasion of Malaya and Battle of Singapore, with his accomplishment of conquering ...

: November * Shizuichi Tanaka * Shigenori Kuroda: November * Heitarō Kimura: November

1917 Class

* Renya Mutaguchi: November * Jun Ushiroku: November *

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 ...

: November * Kenryo Sato (Chief, Military Affairs Section, War Ministry; Chief, Military Affairs Bureau, same Ministry) * Seizo Arisue (Chief, Second Bureau-Intelligence, Army General Staff) * Tan Nukata (Chief, Third Bureau—Logistics, Army General Staff; Chief, General Affairs Bureau, do; Chief, Personnel Bureau, War Ministry) * Goro Isoya (Chief, Third Bureau-Logistics, Army General Staff)

1918 Class

* Korechika Anami: November * Kiichiro Higuchi: November *

Kanji Ishiwara 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 ...

: November

1919 Class

* Hideyoshi Obata: December *

Sōsaku Suzuki was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. Biography Early career Born in Aichi prefecture, Suzuki graduated from the 24th class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1912. After leaving 31st class of the Army War Colle ...

: November

1920 Class

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 ...

: November *

Kingoro Hashimoto was a soldier in the Imperial Japanese Army and politician. He was famous for having twice tried to stage a coup against the civilian government in the 1930s. Early career Hashimoto was born in Okayama City, and a graduate of the 23rd class o ...

1921 Class

: November *

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 ...

: December

1922 Class

Kiyotake Kawaguchi was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. Biography A native of Kōchi Prefecture, Kiyotake graduated from the 26th class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1914, and from the 34th class of the Army War College (Japan ...

: November *

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 ...

: November *

(Chief, Second Section operations, Army General Staff) * Susumu Nishiura (Chief, Army Affairs Section, War Ministry) * Akiho Ishii (Chief, Military Affairs Section, War Ministry)

1923 Class

* Tadamichi Kuribayashi: November *

Hong Sa-ik Hong Sa-ik (hangul 홍사익;hanja 洪思翊; 4 March 1889 – 26 September 1946), and was also known by the Japanese pronunciation of his name - Kō Shiyoku (Japanese: 洪思翊) or Kou Shiyoku, was a lieutenant general in the Imperial Jap ...

Okikatsu Arao Colonel was one of the original plotters in a scheme to prevent the Emperor's declaration of surrender at the end of World War II. He was the chief of the War Affairs section of the Military Affairs Bureau of the Imperial Japanese Army. Conspi ...

(Koko) (Chief, Shipping Section, Army General Staff; senior Staff Officer, Army Affairs Section, War Ministry; Chief, Third Section—Organization and Mobilization, Army General Staff) *

Hiroo Sato Hiroo may refer to: * Hiroo (given name), a masculine Japanese given name * Hiroo, Shibuya, Tokyo, a neighborhood in the Shibuya district of Tokyo * Hiroo Station, a subway station in Tokyo. * Hiroo, Hokkaidō is a town located in Tokachi Su ...

(Chief, War Materiel Section, War Ministry; and an officer who, like Col Arao, had the confidence of War Minister Anami) * Yozo Miyama (Chief, Third Section-Organization and Mobilization, Army General Staffs post which he held before the author assumed it; and Senior Adjutant, War Ministry) * Makoto Matsutani (Chief, 20th Group-War Coordination, Army General Staff; Military Secretary to Prime Minister Suzuki)

1925 Class

* Shizuo Yokoyama: November

1927 Class

* Takeshi Mori: December

1929

* Hiromichi Yahara: returned as an instructor 1937-1940

1930 Class

: November * Masutaro Nakai: December

1931 Class

* Masanobu Tsuji

1937 Class

José Laurel III José Sotero Hidalgo Laurel III, KGCR (August 27, 1914 – January 6, 2003) was a Filipino diplomat and the aide-de-camp of President Jose P. Laurel during the World War II period. He later became ambassador of the Philippines to Japan. Early l ...

1944 Class

* Takagi Masao (3rd President of South Korea, also known as Park Chung-hee)

Graduates in Military Overseas Studies

* Shunroku Hata: Military Student, Germany, March 1912 * Hisaichi Terauchi: Military Student, Germany, February 1913 * Yoshijirō Umezu: Military Student, Germany, April 1913 * Masaharu Homma: Military Student, England, August 1918 (and served as observer with British forces in France) * Hitoshi Imamura: Military Student, England, April 1918; Assistant Military Attaché, England, October 1918 * Naruhiko Higashikuni: Resident Officer, France, studying military tactics, April 1920 *

: Military Student. Germany, July 1921 * Hideyoshi Obata: Military Student, England, April 1923; Major, March 1926 *

Minoru Sasaki sometimes referred to as Noburo Sasaki, was a Lieutenant General in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. Biography Sasaki was born in Hiroshima Prefecture and studied at Shudo Junior and Senior High School. He graduated from the 26th ...

: Military Student, U.S.S.R., September 1927; same for Poland and U.S.S.R., August 1928 *

: Resident Officer, Riga, Latvia (studying Soviet military affairs), January 1926-September 1928

Students in Army Cavalry School

: Equitation Student, October 1917

Graduates from Artillery and Engineering School

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 ...

: July 1916

Graduates from the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy

Kantarō Suzuki Baron was a Japanese general and politician. He was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy, member and final leader of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association and Prime Minister of Japan from 7 April to 17 August 1945. Biography Early li ...

: 1887 * Mitsumasa Yonai: 1901 *

Shigetarō Shimada was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. He also served as Minister of the Navy. He was convicted of war crimes and sentenced to life imprisonment. Early life and education A native of Tokyo, Shimada graduated from t ...

: November 1904

Graduates from the Naval War College

: 1898 *

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