In the administration of Japan dominated by the Toseiha

Toseiha

' was a political faction in the Imperial Japanese Army, active in the 1920s and 1930s.Led by General Kazushige Ugaki, along with Hajime Sugiyama, Koiso Kuniaki, Yoshijirō Umezu, Tetsuzan Nagata and Hideki Tōjō, the Tōseiha was a grouping of officers united primarily by their opposition to the...

 movement during World War II, the civil central government of Japan was under the management of some military men, and of some civilians:

Supreme head of government

• Emperor Hirohito
  Hirohito
  , posthumously in Japan officially called Emperor Shōwa or , was the 124th Emperor of Japan according to the traditional order, reigning from December 25, 1926, until his death in 1989. Although better known outside of Japan by his personal name Hirohito, in Japan he is now referred to...
  
  : supreme Commander in Chief of Armed Imperial Forces, head of state and central government, and representative of the "Imperial Sun Lineage", State Shinto and Worship national god image, and chief of the Imperial Household Ministry
  Imperial Household Agency
  The is a government agency of Japan in charge of the state matters concerning Japan's imperial family and also keeping the Privy Seal and the State Seal...
  
  .

President of the Imperial Council

• Yoshimichi Hara
  Yoshimichi Hara
  Yoshimichi Hara 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 particular, he protested against the outbreak of the Pacific war at Gozen Kaigi...
  
  : President of the "Imperial Council" and "Imperial Throne Council of War" also the Emperor's representatives

Chairman of the Imperial Advisory Council

• Kantarō Suzuki
  Kantaro Suzuki
  Baron was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy, member and final leader of the Taisei Yokusankai and 42nd Prime Minister of Japan from 7 April-17 August 1945.-Early life:...
  
  : Chairman of the Imperial Advisory Council

Imperial family members

The following were closely involved in the government:

• Prince Asaka Yasuhiko
• Prince Chichibu
  Prince Chichibu
  , also known as Prince Yasuhito, was the second son of Emperor Taishō and a younger brother of the Emperor Shōwa. As a member of the Imperial House of Japan, he was the patron of several sporting, medical, and international exchange organizations...
  
  
• Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu
  Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu
  was a scion of the Japanese imperial family and was a career naval officer who served as chief of staff of the Imperial Japanese Navy from 1932 to 1941.-Early life:...
  
  
• Prince Fushimi Hiroyoshi
  Prince Fushimi Hiroyoshi
  align=right| was the eldest son of Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu, heir-apparent of the 25nd head of the Fushimi-no-miya shinnōke , and a career officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy.- Early life :...
  
  
• Prince Fushimi Hiroaki
  Fushimi Hiroaki
  is the only son of Prince Fushimi Hiroyoshi , and 25th head of the Fushimi-no-miya shinnōke .Fushimi Hiroaki was born in Tokyo, and educated at the Gakushuin Peers School...
  
  
• Prince Mikasa
  Prince Mikasa
  is a member of the Imperial House of Japan. He is the fourth and youngest son of Emperor Taishō and Empress Teimei. His eldest brother was Emperor Shōwa , and is the only surviving paternal uncle of Emperor Akihito. With the death of his sister-in-law, Princess Takamatsu , on 17 December 2004, he...
  
  
• Prince Nashimoto Morimasa
• Prince Higashikuni Naruhiko
• Prince Higashikuni Morihiro
  Higashikuni Morihiro
  , formerly was a member of a branch line of the Japanese imperial family and husband of the Emperor Hirohito's eldest daughter.- Early life :The eldest son and heir of Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni, Prince Morihiro had the distinction of being a grandson of Emperor Meiji and simultaneously both a...
  
  
• Prince Takamatsu
  Prince Takamatsu
  was the third son of HIM Emperor Taishō and HIM Empress Teimei and a younger brother of the HIM Emperor Shōwa . He became heir to the Takamatsu-no-miya , one of the four shinnōke or branches of the imperial family entitled to inherit the Chrysanthemum throne in default of a direct heir...
  
  
• Prince Takeda Tsuneyoshi
• Prince Kan'in Kotohito
  Prince Kan'in Kotohito
  , wasthe sixth head of a cadet branch the Japanese imperial family, and a career army officer who served as Chief of the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff from 1931 to 1940.-Early years:...
  
  
• Prince Kan'in Haruhito
  Kan'in Haruhito
  - Notes :...
  
  
• Prince Kaya Tsunenori
  Prince Kaya Tsunenori
  , was the second head of the Kaya-no-miya collateral branch of the Japanese imperial family. He was first cousin to Empress Kōjun , the wife of Emperor Shōwa .- Early life :...
  
  
• Prince Kitashirakawa Naruhisa
  Prince Kitashirakawa Naruhisa
  , was the 3rd head of a collateral branch of the Japanese Imperial Family.-Early life:Prince Kitashirakawa Naruhisa was the son of Prince Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa and Princess Tomiko. Prince Naruhisa succeeded as head of the house of Kitashirakawa-no-miya after the death of his father in November...
  
  
• Prince Kitashirakawa Nagahisa
  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 Kuni Asaakira
  Prince Kuni Asaakira
  , was third head of the Kuni-no-miya, a collateral branch of the Japanese imperial family and vice admiral in the Japanese Imperial Navy during World War II...
  
  
• Prince Yamashina Takehiko
  Prince Yamashina Takehiko
  align=right|, was the third head of the Yamashina-no-miya, a collateral line of the Japanese imperial family. He was nicknamed “the Flying Prince”.-Early life:...
  
  
• Prince Un Yi
  Crown Prince Euimin
  Prince Imperial Yeong, the Crown Prince Uimin , also known as Yi Un, Yi Eun, Lee Eun, and Un Yi , was the 28th Head of Korean Imperial House, and the last crown prince of Korea....
  
   (Crown Prince Yi Eun)

Vice Chairman of the Councilors of Court

• Kantarō Suzuki
  Kantaro Suzuki
  Baron was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy, member and final leader of the Taisei Yokusankai and 42nd Prime Minister of Japan from 7 April-17 August 1945.-Early life:...
  
  : Vice-Chairman of the Councilors of Court

Prime Ministers

• Senjuro Hayashi
  Senjuro Hayashi
  was an Imperial Japanese Army commander of the Chosen Army of Japan in Korea during the Mukden Incident and the invasion of Manchuria, and a Japanese politician and the 33rd Prime Minister of Japan from February 2, 1937 to June 4, 1937.-Biography:...
  
  : Prime Minister, Commander-in-Chief of Kwantung Army, Minister of War, member of Imperial Privy Council amongst political adviser in Taisei Yokusankai
• Kōki Hirota
  Koki Hirota
  was a Japanese diplomat, politician and the 32nd Prime Minister of Japan from March 9, 1936 to February 2, 1937.-Early life:Hirota was born in what is now part of Chūō-ku, Fukuoka city, Fukuoka Prefecture. His father was a stonemason, and he was adopted into the Hirota family. After attending...
  
  : Prime Minister, also chief of secret services in the Black Dragon Society
  Black Dragon Society
  The was a prominent paramilitary, ultranationalist right-wing group in Japan.-History:The Kokuryūkai was founded in 1901 by Uchida Ryohei, and was descended from the Genyōsha. Its name is derived from the Amur River, called Heilongjiang or "Black Dragon River" in Chinese , read as Kokuryū-kō in...
  
  
• Fumimaro Konoe
  Fumimaro Konoe
  Prince was a politician in the Empire of Japan who served as the 34th, 38th and 39th Prime Minister of Japan and founder/leader of the Taisei Yokusankai.- Early life :...
  
  : Prime Minister; in his second term organized the Tonarigumi
  Tonarigumi
  The was the smallest unit of the national mobilization program established by the Japanese government in World War II. It consisted of units consisting of 10-15 households organized for fire fighting, civil defense and internal security. -History & Development:...
  
  organization, Nation Service Society official government syndicate, and Taisei Yokusankai
  Taisei Yokusankai
  The was Japan's para-fascist organization created by Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe on October 12, 1940 to promote the goals of his Shintaisei movement...
  
  (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
  Mitsumasa Yonai
  was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy, and politician. He was the 37th Prime Minister of Japan from 16 January to 22 July 1940.-Early life & Naval career:...
  
  :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
  Hideki Tōjō
  Hideki Tōjō was a general of the Imperial Japanese Army , the leader of the Taisei Yokusankai, and the 40th Prime Minister of Japan during most of World War II, from 17 October 1941 to 22 July 1944...
  
  : Prime Minister, Home Affairs Minister, Education Minister, Trade Minister, War Minister, Head of Kodoha Party; also Commander-in-Chief of Japanese Imperial Forces
  Imperial Japanese forces
  For Imperial Japanese Forces, see* Imperial Japanese Army* Imperial Japanese NavyAir Forces were part of the Army or Navy....
  
   in same period, also lead the Keishicho (Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department); also was for some time head of the Munitions Ministry.
• Koiso Kuniaki: Prime Minister and head of Ministry of Greater East Asia (Japan), Vice-Minister of War, also commander of the Imperial Volunteer Corps
  Imperial Volunteer Corps
  were armed civil defense units planned in 1945 in the Empire of Japan as a last desperate measure to defend the Japanese home islands against the projected Allied invasion during Operation Downfall in the final stages of World War II....
  
   defensive organization
• Kantarō Suzuki
  Kantaro Suzuki
  Baron was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy, member and final leader of the Taisei Yokusankai and 42nd Prime Minister of Japan from 7 April-17 August 1945.-Early life:...
  
  : Imperial Navy Admiral, Marine Minister, Military Councillor, Grand Chamberlain and Privy Councilor, later Prime Minister
• Prince Higashikuni Naruhiko
  Prince Higashikuni
  was the 43rd Prime Minister of Japan from 17 August 1945 to 9 October 1945 for a period of 54 days. An uncle of Emperor Hirohito twice over, Prince Higashikuni was the only member of the Japanese imperial family to head a cabinet...
  
  : 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

Military Secretary to Prime Minister

• Makoto Matsutani: Military Secretary to Prime Minister

Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal

• Makino Nobuaki
  Makino Nobuaki
  Count was a Japanese statesman, active from the Meiji period through the Pacific War.- Biography :Born to a samurai family in Kagoshima, Satsuma domain , Makino was the second son of Ōkubo Toshimichi, but adopted into the Makino family at a very early age.In 1871, at the age of 11, he accompanied...
  
   (30 March 1925 – 26 February 1935)
• Saitō Makoto
  Saito Makoto
  Viscount was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy, two-time Governor-General of Korea from 1919 to 1927 and from 1929 to 1931, and the 30th Prime Minister of Japan from May 26, 1932 to July 8, 1934.-Early life:...
  
   (26 February 1935 – 26 February 1936)
• Ichiki Kitokuro (6 March 1936-6 March 1936)
• Yuasa Kurahei (6 March 1936 – 1 June 1940)
• Kōichi Kido
  Koichi Kido
  Marquis served as Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal from 1940 to 1945, and was the closest advisor to Emperor Showa throughout World War II.Kido was the grandson of Kido Takayoshi, one of the leaders of the Meiji Restoration...
  
   (1 June 1940 – 24 November 1945)

Imperial Privy Council

President of Privy Council

• Yoshimichi Hara
  Yoshimichi Hara
  Yoshimichi Hara 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 particular, he protested against the outbreak of the Pacific war at Gozen Kaigi...
  
  : President of Privy Council
• Hiranuma Kiichirō: Last President of Privy Council

Privy Councillors

• Jirō Minami
  Jiro Minami
  - Notes :...
  
  : Privy Councillor
• Kantarō Suzuki
  Kantaro Suzuki
  Baron was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy, member and final leader of the Taisei Yokusankai and 42nd Prime Minister of Japan from 7 April-17 August 1945.-Early life:...
  
  : Privy Councillor
• Nobuyuki Abe: Privy Councillor
• Hiranuma Kiichirō: Privy Councillor
• Senjuro Hayashi
  Senjuro Hayashi
  was an Imperial Japanese Army commander of the Chosen Army of Japan in Korea during the Mukden Incident and the invasion of Manchuria, and a Japanese politician and the 33rd Prime Minister of Japan from February 2, 1937 to June 4, 1937.-Biography:...
  
  : Privy Councillor
• Shigeru Honjō
  Shigeru Honjo
  -Notes:...
  
  : Privy Councillor
• Hideki Tōjō
  Hideki Tōjō
  Hideki Tōjō was a general of the Imperial Japanese Army , the leader of the Taisei Yokusankai, and the 40th Prime Minister of Japan during most of World War II, from 17 October 1941 to 22 July 1944...
  
  : Privy Councilor

Imperial Aide to the Crown Prince

• Takeji Nara
  Takeji Nara
  Baron was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army.-Biography:Nara was born in what is now part of Kanuma city, Tochigi Prefecture to a farming family. He attended military preparatory schools as a youth, and graduated from the 11th class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1889 as a second...
  
  : Imperial Aide to the Kōtaishi
  Crown Prince
  A crown prince or crown princess is the heir or heiress apparent to the throne in a royal or imperial monarchy. The wife of a crown prince is also titled crown princess....
  
   (Crown Prince)

Military Aide-de-Camp

• Shigeru Hasunuma: Chief Aide-de-Camp to the Emperor
• Takeji Nara
  Takeji Nara
  Baron was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army.-Biography:Nara was born in what is now part of Kanuma city, Tochigi Prefecture to a farming family. He attended military preparatory schools as a youth, and graduated from the 11th class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1889 as a second...
  
  : Chief Aide-de Camp to the Emperor
• Kazumoto Machijiri
  Kazumoto Machijiri
  -External links:**...
  
  : Aide-de-Camp to the Emperor
• Shunroku Hata: Senior Aide-de-Camp to the Emperor
• Korechika Anami: Aide-de-Camp to the Emperor
• Shigeru Honjō
  Shigeru Honjo
  -Notes:...
  
  : Aide-de-Camp to the Emperor
• Ki Yano: Aide-de-Camp to the Emperor
• Yoshikazu Nishi: Aide-de-Camp to the Emperor
• Tasuku Okada: Aide-de-Camp to Prince Kotohito Kanin
• Masaharu Homma
  Masaharu Homma
  was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army. He is noteworthy for his role in the invasion and occupation of the Philippines during World War II. Homma, who was an amateur painter and playwright, was also known as the Poet General.-Biography:...
  
  : Aide-de-Camp to Prince Yasuhito Chichibu
• Takushiro Hattori
  Takushiro Hattori
  was an Imperial Japanese Army officer. He became head of the Operations Section of the Army General Staff, 1941–5, ranked as colonel. He worked with Colonel Masanobu Tsuji, on Japanese planning for some of the major battles of World War II....
  
  : Aide-de-Camp/Adjutant to Field Marshal (Prince) Nashimoto
• Shoichi Muranaka: Aide-de-camp of Commander Komatsubara during Nomonhan Incident

Grand Chamberlain

• Makoto Saito
  Saito Makoto
  Viscount was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy, two-time Governor-General of Korea from 1919 to 1927 and from 1929 to 1931, and the 30th Prime Minister of Japan from May 26, 1932 to July 8, 1934.-Early life:...
  
  : Grand Chamberlain in period of Imperial Colors Incident
  Imperial Colors Incident
  The , also known as the , was an abortive coup d'état attempt in Japan, on 21 October 1931, launched by the Sakurakai secret society within the Imperial Japanese Army, aided by civilian ultranationalist groups.-Background and History:...
  
  
• Kantarō Suzuki
  Kantaro Suzuki
  Baron was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy, member and final leader of the Taisei Yokusankai and 42nd Prime Minister of Japan from 7 April-17 August 1945.-Early life:...
  
  : Grand Chamberlain
• Saburo Hyakutake: Grand Chamberlain
• Hisanoru Fujita: Grand Chamberlain

House of Representatives

• Juji Kasai: member of House of Representatives of Japan
  House of Representatives of Japan
  The is the lower house of the Diet of Japan. The House of Councillors of Japan is the upper house.The House of Representatives has 480 members, elected for a four-year term. Of these, 180 members are elected from 11 multi-member constituencies by a party-list system of proportional representation,...
  
   (government supporter)
• Kingoro Hashimoto
  Kingoro Hashimoto
  was a soldier in the Imperial Japanese Army and politician.-Early career:Hashimoto was born in Okayama City, and a graduate of the 23rd class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1911. He subsequently graduated from the Army Staff College in 1920. In April 1922, he was assigned to the Kwangtung...
  
  : member in House of Representatives of Japan
  House of Representatives of Japan
  The is the lower house of the Diet of Japan. The House of Councillors of Japan is the upper house.The House of Representatives has 480 members, elected for a four-year term. Of these, 180 members are elected from 11 multi-member constituencies by a party-list system of proportional representation,...
  
  , defender of official policies

House of Peers

• Satō Tetsutarō
  Sato Tetsutaro
  -Notes:...
  
  : Member in House of Peers
• Aisuke Kabayama: Member of House of Peers (partner of government policies in first stages)
• Teiichi Suzuki
  Teiichi Suzuki
  was a Japanese army general who helped plan Japan's economy in World War II and later was imprisoned as a war criminal, died of heart failure. He was 100 years old.Mr...
  
  : Imperial candidate to House of Peers
• Kenkichi Yoshizawa
  Kenkichi Yoshizawa
  was a diplomat in the Empire of Japan, serving as 46th Foreign Minister of Japan in 1932.-Biography:Yoshizawa was a native of what is now part of Joetsu city, Niigata prefecture. He was a graduate of the English literature department of Tokyo University and entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs...
  
  : Member of House of Peers
• Prince Higashikuni Morihiro
  Higashikuni Morihiro
  , formerly was a member of a branch line of the Japanese imperial family and husband of the Emperor Hirohito's eldest daughter.- Early life :The eldest son and heir of Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni, Prince Morihiro had the distinction of being a grandson of Emperor Meiji and simultaneously both a...
  
  : Member in House of Peers
• Nobuyuki Abe: Member in House of Peers
• Naoki Hoshino
  Naoki Hoshino
  was a bureaucrat and politician who served in the Taishō and early Shōwa period Japanese government, and as an official in the Empire of Manchukuo.-Biography:Hoshino was born in Yokohama, where his father was involved in the textile industry...
  
  : Member in House of Peers

Imperial Supreme War Command (1937-1945)

Supreme Commander-in-Chief of Armed Imperial Forces

• Emperor Hirohito
  Hirohito
  , posthumously in Japan officially called Emperor Shōwa or , was the 124th Emperor of Japan according to the traditional order, reigning from December 25, 1926, until his death in 1989. Although better known outside of Japan by his personal name Hirohito, in Japan he is now referred to...
  
  : Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Japanese Army
  Imperial Japanese Army
  -Foundation:During the Meiji Restoration, the military forces loyal to the Emperor were samurai drawn primarily from the loyalist feudal domains of Satsuma and Chōshū...
  
   and the Imperial Japanese Navy
  Imperial Japanese Navy
  The Imperial Japanese Navy was the navy of the Empire of Japan from 1869 until 1947, when it was dissolved following Japan's constitutional renunciation of the use of force as a means of settling international disputes...
  
   (Article XI of the Meiji Constitution
  Meiji Constitution
  The ', known informally as the ', was the organic law of the Japanese empire, in force from November 29, 1890 until May 2, 1947.-Outline:...
  
   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

Ministry of War of Japan

The , more popularly known as the Ministry of War of Japan, was cabinet-level ministry in the Empire of Japan charged with the administrative affairs of the Imperial Japanese Army...

• Hajime Sugiyama : War minister
• Seishirō Itagaki : War minister
• Shunroku Hata : War minister
• Hideki Tōjō
  Hideki Tōjō
  Hideki Tōjō was a general of the Imperial Japanese Army , the leader of the Taisei Yokusankai, and the 40th Prime Minister of Japan during most of World War II, from 17 October 1941 to 22 July 1944...
  
  : War Minister
• Anami Korechika: War Minister

Japanese Army Strategic Thought Group

• Strike North Group - Strategist thought group dominated by the Imperial Japanese Army
  Imperial Japanese Army
  -Foundation:During the Meiji Restoration, the military forces loyal to the Emperor were samurai drawn primarily from the loyalist feudal domains of Satsuma and Chōshū...
  
  

Aide to War Minister, IGHQ

• Joichiro Sanada
  Joichiro Sanada
  was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II. Throughout much of the war, Sanada was an important and influential officer on the staff of the Imperial General Headquarters in Tokyo.-Biography:...
  
  : Aide to War Minister, IGHQ

Staff officer IGHQ

• Torashirō Kawabe
  Torashiro Kawabe
  - Notes :...
  
  : Army Staff officer, IGHQ
• Prince Mikasa
  Prince Mikasa
  is a member of the Imperial House of Japan. He is the fourth and youngest son of Emperor Taishō and Empress Teimei. His eldest brother was Emperor Shōwa , and is the only surviving paternal uncle of Emperor Akihito. With the death of his sister-in-law, Princess Takamatsu , on 17 December 2004, he...
  
  : Army Staff officer, IGHQ
• Okitsugu Arao
  Okitsugu Arao
  Colonel Okitsugu Arao was one of the original plotters in a scheme to prevent the Emperor's declaration of surrender at the end of World War II...
  
  : concurrently Army Staff Officer, IGHQ
• Takushiro Hattori
  Takushiro Hattori
  was an Imperial Japanese Army officer. He became head of the Operations Section of the Army General Staff, 1941–5, ranked as colonel. He worked with Colonel Masanobu Tsuji, on Japanese planning for some of the major battles of World War II....
  
  : Army Staff Officer, IGHQ
• Suzuki Meiji: 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
  Inaba Masao
  Lieutenant Colonel Inaba Masao was a Japanese officer during World War II of the Military Affairs Bureau.In 1945, after the Emperor and his ministers were seeking to surrender, he urged to Korechika Anami, the War Minister, that the soldiers be told to keep fighting, especially with the Soviet...
  
  :Army inner liaison (Army Section), Military Affairs Bureau, Army Ministry, IGHQ

Imperial Japanese Army General Staff (Tokyo HQ)

• Prince Kan'in Kotohito
  Prince Kan'in Kotohito
  , wasthe sixth head of a cadet branch the Japanese imperial family, and a career army officer who served as Chief of the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff from 1931 to 1940.-Early years:...
  
  : Chief of Army General Staff
• Hajime Sugiyama: Chief of Army General Staff
• Hideki Tōjō
  Hideki Tōjō
  Hideki Tōjō was a general of the Imperial Japanese Army , the leader of the Taisei Yokusankai, and the 40th Prime Minister of Japan during most of World War II, from 17 October 1941 to 22 July 1944...
  
  : 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

• Suichi Miyazaki: Chief, First Bureau, Army General Staff Headquarters, attended operational liaison conference between IGHQ, Southern Army, and Fourteenth Area Army (Manila)

Minister of the Navy

Ministry of the Navy of Japan

The was a cabinet-level ministry in the Empire of Japan charged with the administrative affairs of the Imperial Japanese Navy . It existed from 1872 to 1945.-History:...

• Yonai Mitsumasa: Marine Minister
• Koshiro Oikawa
  Koshiro Oikawa
  was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy and Naval Minister during World War II.-Biography:Oikawa was born into a wealthy family in rural Koshi County, Niigata Prefecture, but was raised in Morioka city, Iwate prefecture in northern Japan....
  
   : Marine minister
• Shigetarō Shimada
  Shigetaro Shimada
  was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. He also served as Navy Minister-Biography:A native of Tokyo, Shimada graduated from the 32nd class of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy in 1904...
  
  : Marine Minister

Japanese Navy Strategic Thinking Group

• Strike South Group - Strategists thinking group dominated by the Imperial Japanese Navy
  Imperial Japanese Navy
  The Imperial Japanese Navy was the navy of the Empire of Japan from 1869 until 1947, when it was dissolved following Japan's constitutional renunciation of the use of force as a means of settling international disputes...
  
  

Imperial Japanese Navy General Staff

Imperial Japanese Navy General Staff

The was the highest organ within the Imperial Japanese Navy. In charge of planning and operations, it was headed by an Admiral headquartered in Tokyo.-History:...

 (Tokyo HQ)

• Hiroyasu Fushimi : Chief of Navy General Staff
• Osami Nagano: Chief of Navy General Staff
• Soemu Toyoda: Chief of Navy General Staff
• Shigeru Fukudome
  Shigeru Fukudome
  - Notes :...
  
  : Vice-Chief of Navy General Staff

Navy General Staff of Combined Fleet (Japan, later Truk HQ)

• Isoroku Yamamoto
  Isoroku Yamamoto
  was a Japanese Naval Marshal General and the commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet during World War II, a graduate of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy and a student of Harvard University ....
  
  : Chief of General Staff of Combined Fleet
• Matome Ugaki: Vice-Chief of General Staff of Combined Fleet
• Mineichi Koga
  Mineichi Koga
  - Notes :...
  
  : Chief of General Staff of Combined Fleet
• Shigeru Fukudome
  Shigeru Fukudome
  - Notes :...
  
  : Vice-Chief of General Staff of Combined Fleet

Navy Tactical Commands

Navy-Army General Staff (IGHQ) Liaison Officer

• Takushiro Hattori
  Takushiro Hattori
  was an Imperial Japanese Army officer. He became head of the Operations Section of the Army General Staff, 1941–5, ranked as colonel. He worked with Colonel Masanobu Tsuji, on Japanese planning for some of the major battles of World War II....
  
  : Member (Army-Navy high level liaison), Naval General Staff; Naval Staff Officer (Operations) IGHQ; Section Chief (Operations), Army General Staff, IGHQ; Army Section Member, Naval General Staff Naval Staff Officer, IGHQ (Operations).
• Joichiro Sanada
  Joichiro Sanada
  was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II. Throughout much of the war, Sanada was an important and influential officer on the staff of the Imperial General Headquarters in Tokyo.-Biography:...
  
  : Chief, Second Section, (Army-Navy high level liaison) Army General Staff Headquarters; Staff Officer, IGHQ (Navy Section)

Inspectorate General of Military Training

Inspectorate General of Military Training

The was responsible for all non-military aviation training of the Imperial Japanese Army. It was headed by an Inspector general who was responsible for overseeing technical and tactical training, and who reported directly to the Emperor of Japan via the Imperial General Headquarters rather than to...

 IGHQ

• Rikichi Andō
  Rikichi Ando
  -See also:* Taiwan under Japanese rule...
  
  : Vice-Chief Inspectorate General of Military Training
• Sadao Araki
  Sadao Araki
  Baron was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army before World War II. A charismatic leader and one of the principal nationalist right-wing political theorists in the late Japanese Empire, he was regarded as the leader of the radical faction within the politicized Japanese Army and served as...
  
  : Inspector General of Military Training
• Shunroku Hata: Inspector General of Artillery Training
• Harukichi Hyakutake: Inspector General of Signal Training
• Hitoshi Imamura
  Hitoshi Imamura
  -External links:...
  
  : Deputy Chief, Inspectorate General of Military Training
• Masatane Kanda
  Masatane Kanda
  -Notes:...
  
  : Department Chief, Inspectorate General of Military Training
• Masakazu Kawabe
  Masakazu Kawabe
  was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army. He held important commands in the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War, and during World War II in the Burma Campaign and defense of the Japanese homeland late in the war...
  
  : Section Member, Inspectorate General of Military Training
• Heitarō Kimura: Artillery Department, Office of Military Training
• Kenzo Kitano: Section Member, Inspectorate General of Military Training
• Shigenori Kuroda
  Shigenori Kuroda
  Shigenori Kuroda was a general of the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II.-Biography:Kuroda was commissioned as an infantry officer in 1909. He graduated from War College in 1916 and became a military observer in Europe. It was during World War I. From 1935-1937, he served as military...
  
  : 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
  Akira Muto
  - Notes :...
  
  : Member, Inspectorate General of Military Training
• Tasuku Okada: Member, Inspectorate General of Military Training
• Ichiro Shichida: Section Chief, Inspectorate General of Military Training
• Tokomatsu Shigeta: Inspector General of Artillery Training
• Sōsaku Suzuki: 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)
• Prince Un Yi
  Crown Prince Euimin
  Prince Imperial Yeong, the Crown Prince Uimin , also known as Yi Un, Yi Eun, Lee Eun, and Un Yi , was the 28th Head of Korean Imperial House, and the last crown prince of Korea....
  
  : Attached to Inspectorate-General of Military Training
• Nobuyushi Muto: Inspector-General of Military Training
• Yoshikazu Nishi: Inspector-General of Military Training

Inspectorate General of Aviation

Inspectorate General of Aviation

The Inspectorate-General of Army Aviation or Inspectorate General of Aviation was a section of the Imperial Japanese Army Aeronautical Department charged with planning and supervision of the training of flying and air maintenance personnel of the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service.It was under the...

 IGHQ

• Tomoyuki Yamashita
  Tomoyuki Yamashita
  General was a general of the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II. He was most famous for conquering the British colonies of Malaya and Singapore, earning the nickname "The Tiger of Malaya".- Biography :...
  
  : Inspector general of Army Aviation
• Prince Mikasa
  Prince Mikasa
  is a member of the Imperial House of Japan. He is the fourth and youngest son of Emperor Taishō and Empress Teimei. His eldest brother was Emperor Shōwa , and is the only surviving paternal uncle of Emperor Akihito. With the death of his sister-in-law, Princess Takamatsu , on 17 December 2004, he...
  
  : Inspector general of Army Aviation
• Torashirō Kawabe
  Torashiro Kawabe
  - Notes :...
  
  : Deputy Chief, Inspectorate General of Air Force
• Korechika Anami: Inspector General of Army Aviation
• Hideki Tōjō
  Hideki Tōjō
  Hideki Tōjō was a general of the Imperial Japanese Army , the leader of the Taisei Yokusankai, and the 40th Prime Minister of Japan during most of World War II, from 17 October 1941 to 22 July 1944...
  
  : Inspector General of Army Aviation
• Kenji Doihara
  Kenji Doihara
  was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II. He was instrumental in the Japanese invasion of Manchuria for which he earned fame taking the nickname 'Lawrence of Manchuria', a reference to the Lawrence of Arabia....
  
  : Inspector General of Army Aviation

Imperial Supreme War Council (Senso-shi-do)

Chief Secretary of Supreme War Council

• Akira Mutō
  Akira Muto
  - Notes :...
  
  : Chief Secretary of Supreme War Council
• Mineo Ōsumi
  Mineo Osumi
  Baron was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy and served twice as Minister of the Navy of Japan during the volatile 1930s.-Early life:Ōsumi was born in Kōchi Prefecture, but grew up in Aichi Prefecture. He was a graduate of the 24th class of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy, where he...
  
  : Chief Secretary of Supreme War Council

Supreme War Councilor

• Nobutake Kondō: Appointed to the Supreme War Council
• Mitsumasa Yonai
  Mitsumasa Yonai
  was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy, and politician. He was the 37th Prime Minister of Japan from 16 January to 22 July 1940.-Early life & Naval career:...
  
  : Supreme War Councilor
• Soemu Toyoda: Supreme War Councilor
• Shigetarō Shimada
  Shigetaro Shimada
  was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. He also served as Navy Minister-Biography:A native of Tokyo, Shimada graduated from the 32nd class of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy in 1904...
  
  : Appointed to Supreme War Council
• Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu
  Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu
  was a scion of the Japanese imperial family and was a career naval officer who served as chief of staff of the Imperial Japanese Navy from 1932 to 1941.-Early life:...
  
  : Supreme War Councilor
• Prince Un Yi: Member of the Supreme War Council
• Waichirō Sonobe
  Waichiro Sonobe
  was a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War.-Biography:A native of Kumamoto prefecture, Sonobe graduated from the 16th class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1904. After serving with the IJA 23rd Infantry Regiment, he completed coursework at...
  
  : Member of the Supreme War Council
• Sadao Araki
  Sadao Araki
  Baron was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army before World War II. A charismatic leader and one of the principal nationalist right-wing political theorists in the late Japanese Empire, he was regarded as the leader of the radical faction within the politicized Japanese Army and served as...
  
  : Member Supreme War Council
• Saburo Ando: Member Supreme War Council
• Prince Asaka Yasuhiko: Member Supreme War Council
• Prince Higashikuni Naruhiko: Member Supreme War Council
• Shigeru Honjō
  Shigeru Honjo
  -Notes:...
  
  : Member Supreme War Council
• Shunroku Hata: Member Supreme War Council
• Kenji Dohihara: Member Supreme War Council
• Hisaichi Terauchi: Member of the Supreme War Council
• Prince Nashimoto Morimasa: Member of the Supreme War Council
• Prince Kaya Tsunenori
  Prince Kaya Tsunenori
  , was the second head of the Kaya-no-miya collateral branch of the Japanese imperial family. He was first cousin to Empress Kōjun , the wife of Emperor Shōwa .- Early life :...
  
  : Member of the Supreme War Council
• Prince Kan'in Kotohito
  Prince Kan'in Kotohito
  , wasthe sixth head of a cadet branch the Japanese imperial family, and a career army officer who served as Chief of the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff from 1931 to 1940.-Early years:...
  
  : 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
  Hideki Tōjō
  Hideki Tōjō was a general of the Imperial Japanese Army , the leader of the Taisei Yokusankai, and the 40th Prime Minister of Japan during most of World War II, from 17 October 1941 to 22 July 1944...
  
  : Member of the Supreme War Council
• Yoshikazu Nishi: Member of the Supreme War Council
• Tomoyuki Yamashita
  Tomoyuki Yamashita
  General was a general of the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II. He was most famous for conquering the British colonies of Malaya and Singapore, earning the nickname "The Tiger of Malaya".- Biography :...
  
  : Member of the Supreme War Council
• Shigeatsu Yamaoka: Member of the Supreme War Council
• Takeo Yasuda
  Takeo Yasuda
  was a 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 Army Air Force, most notably his involvement in the early...
  
  : Member of the Supreme War Council

Military Councilors

• Sadao Araki
  Sadao Araki
  Baron was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army before World War II. A charismatic leader and one of the principal nationalist right-wing political theorists in the late Japanese Empire, he was regarded as the leader of the radical faction within the politicized Japanese Army and served as...
  
  : Military Councilor

• Hisaichi Terauchi: Military Councilor
• Kantarō Suzuki
  Kantaro Suzuki
  Baron was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy, member and final leader of the Taisei Yokusankai and 42nd Prime Minister of Japan from 7 April-17 August 1945.-Early life:...
  
  : Military Councilor
• Hajime Sugiyama: concurrently Military Councilor
• Korechika Anami: concurrently Military Councilor
• Kenji Doihara
  Kenji Doihara
  was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II. He was instrumental in the Japanese invasion of Manchuria for which he earned fame taking the nickname 'Lawrence of Manchuria', a reference to the Lawrence of Arabia....
  
  : Military Councilor
• Shunroku Hata: Military Councilor
• Naruhiko Higashikuni: Military Councilor
• Jinsaburo Mazaki: Military Councilor
• Yasuji Okamura
  Yasuji Okamura
  - Notes :...
  
  : Military Councilor
• Takeo Yasuda
  Takeo Yasuda
  was a 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 Army Air Force, most notably his involvement in the early...
  
  : Military Councilor
• Prince Kan'in Kotohito
  Prince Kan'in Kotohito
  , wasthe sixth head of a cadet branch the Japanese imperial family, and a career army officer who served as Chief of the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff from 1931 to 1940.-Early years:...
  
  : Military Councilor
• Osami Nagano: Military Councilor
• Shizuichi Teramoto: Military Councillor

"Imperial Throne Council of War"

President of the Imperial Throne Council of War

• Yoshimichi Hara
  Yoshimichi Hara
  Yoshimichi Hara 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 particular, he protested against the outbreak of the Pacific war at Gozen Kaigi...
  
  : President of the Imperial Throne Council of War

Imperial War Councilor

• Mitsumasa Yonai
  Mitsumasa Yonai
  was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy, and politician. He was the 37th Prime Minister of Japan from 16 January to 22 July 1940.-Early life & Naval career:...
  
  : Imperial War Councilor
• Shigetarō Shimada
  Shigetaro Shimada
  was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. He also served as Navy Minister-Biography:A native of Tokyo, Shimada graduated from the 32nd class of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy in 1904...
  
  : Appointed to Imperial War Council

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
  Matsushiro Underground Imperial Headquarters
  The was a large underground bunker complex built during the Second World War in the Matsushiro suburb of Nagano, Japan.. The facility was to be used by Emperor Hirohito, his family, and the Imperial General Headquarters to direct Japanese armed forces fighting against the Allied invasion of...
  
  , Nagano Prefecture
  Nagano Prefecture
  is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of the island of Honshū. The capital is the city of Nagano.- History :Nagano was formerly known as the province of Shinano...
  
  

Tokyo metropolitan area

• Toshizō Nishio
  Toshizo Nishio
  -External links:...
  
  : Governor of the Tokyo metropolitan area; also was commander of civil law enforcement divisions in the metropolitan area, including Keishicho, Tokko
  Tokko
  ', often shortened to ' was a police force established in 1911 in Japan, specifically to investigate and control political groups and ideologies deemed to be a threat to public order....
  
  , Kempeitai
  Kempeitai
  The was the military police arm of the Imperial Japanese Army from 1881 to 1945. It was not an English-style military police, but a French-style gendarmerie...
  
   and Tokeitai
  Tokeitai
  The was the Imperial Japanese Navy's military police, they were equivalent to the Imperial Japanese Army's Kempeitai. They were also the smallest military police service....
  
   metropolitan units. The Imperial Guards remained under their own commander, who reported directly to the Emperor
  Emperor
  An emperor is a monarch, usually the sovereign ruler of an empire or another type of imperial realm. Empress, the female equivalent, may indicate an emperor's wife or a woman who rules in her own right...
  
  .

Tokyo Divisional District

• Jo Iimura
  Jo Iimura
  - Notes :...
  
  : Commanding General, Tokyo Defense Army; concurrently Commanding General, Tokyo Divisional District

Tokyo Garrison Headquarters

• Kiichiro Higuchi
  Kiichiro Higuchi
  -Notes:...
  
  : Staff Officer, Tokyo Garrison Headquarters
• Joichiro Sanada
  Joichiro Sanada
  was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II. Throughout much of the war, Sanada was an important and influential officer on the staff of the Imperial General Headquarters in Tokyo.-Biography:...
  
  : 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

Tsushima Fortress Detachment

• Kiyotake Kawaguchi
  Kiyotake Kawaguchi
  -Web:...
  
  : recalled to active duty, Commanding General, Tsushima Fortress

• List of Army Fortresses in Japan proper

Officer assigned to General Defense Command

• Shōjirō Iida
  Shojiro Iida
  - Notes :...
  
  : assigned to General Defense Command

Shinbu Group (Fourteenth Area Army command)

• Shizuo Yokoyama
  Shizuo Yokoyama
  -External links:* - Notes :...
  
  : 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
  Kiichiro Higuchi
  -Notes:...
  
  : concurrently Commanding General, Northern District Army Command

Central District Army Command

• Masakazu Kawabe
  Masakazu Kawabe
  was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army. He held important commands in the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War, and during World War II in the Burma Campaign and defense of the Japanese homeland late in the war...
  
  : concurrently Commanding General, Central District Army Command
• See Home Defense Units WW2(Japan)

Chosen Army District

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

For details of the Chosen Army:

• Organization of the Chosen Army of Japan

Munitions Minister

• Hideki Tōjō
  Hideki Tōjō
  Hideki Tōjō was a general of the Imperial Japanese Army , the leader of the Taisei Yokusankai, and the 40th Prime Minister of Japan during most of World War II, from 17 October 1941 to 22 July 1944...
  
  : Concurrent chief of the Munitions Ministry,as Army figure in same Ministry
• Nobusuke Kishi
  Nobusuke Kishi
  was a Japanese politician and the 56th and 57th Prime Minister of Japan from February 25, 1957 to June 12, 1958 and from then to July 19, 1960. He was often called Shōwa no yōkai .- Early life :...
  
  : As sometimes replaced at Gen Tojo in lead of Munitions Minister
• Ginjirō Fujiwara: in charge of the Munitions Ministry
• Shigeru Yoshida
  Shigeru Yoshida
  , KCVO was a Japanese diplomat and politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 1946 to 1947 and from 1948 to 1954.-Early life:...
  
  : Munitions Minister
• Teijirō Toyoda
  Teijiro Toyoda
  , was a career naval officer who served as Minister for Foreign Affairs in 1941, and admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.- Early life :...
  
  : 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
  Kamikaze
  The were suicide attacks by military aviators from the Empire of Japan against Allied naval vessels in the closing stages of the Pacific campaign of World War II, designed to destroy as many warships as possible....
  
  " special forces
• Chikuhei Nakajima: Munitions Minister and aircraft industrialist as linked with Army

Materiel Section, War Ministry

• Hiroo Sato: Chief, Materiel
  Materiel
  Materiel is a term used in English to refer to the equipment and supplies in military and commercial supply chain management....
  
   Section, War Ministry

Tokyo Army Arsenal

• Kijirō Nambu
  Kijiro Nambu
  was a career officer in the Imperial Japanese Army and the founder of Nambu Arms Manufacturing Company, manufacturer of many of the firearms the Japanese military would use in World War II. A prolific small arms designer, he was sometimes called the "John Browning of Japan"...
  
  : Chief, Tokyo Army Arsenal; he also founded and led Nambu Arms Manufacturing Company during wartime

Inspector General of Chemical Warfare

• Kanji Nishihara: Inspector General of Chemical Warfare
• Kazumoto Machijiri
  Kazumoto Machijiri
  -External links:**...
  
  : Inspector General of Chemical Warfare

Officer in Inspectorate General

• Shinichi Tanaka: Chief of Staff, Inspectorate General, LOC

Army Section, Imperial General Headquarters

• Prince Mikasa
  Prince Mikasa
  is a member of the Imperial House of Japan. He is the fourth and youngest son of Emperor Taishō and Empress Teimei. His eldest brother was Emperor Shōwa , and is the only surviving paternal uncle of Emperor Akihito. With the death of his sister-in-law, Princess Takamatsu , on 17 December 2004, he...
  
  : Staff officer in the Army Section of the Imperial General Headquarters

Army Allied Prisoner of War Information Bureau

• Hitoshi Hamada: 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
  Senjuro Hayashi
  was an Imperial Japanese Army commander of the Chosen Army of Japan in Korea during the Mukden Incident and the invasion of Manchuria, and a Japanese politician and the 33rd Prime Minister of Japan from February 2, 1937 to June 4, 1937.-Biography:...
  
  : Minister of War
• Hajime Sugiyama: Minister of War
• Sadao Araki
  Sadao Araki
  Baron was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army before World War II. A charismatic leader and one of the principal nationalist right-wing political theorists in the late Japanese Empire, he was regarded as the leader of the radical faction within the politicized Japanese Army and served as...
  
  : Minister of War
• Jirō Minami
  Jiro Minami
  - Notes :...
  
  : Minister of War
• Shunroku Hata: Minister of War
• Kazushige Ugaki: Minister of War
• Yoshijirō Umezu: Minister of War
• Seishirō Itagaki: Minister of War
• Hideki Tōjō
  Hideki Tōjō
  Hideki Tōjō was a general of the Imperial Japanese Army , the leader of the Taisei Yokusankai, and the 40th Prime Minister of Japan during most of World War II, from 17 October 1941 to 22 July 1944...
  
  : Minister of War
• Korechika Anami: Minister of War
• Hisaichi Terauchi: Minister of War
• Shigenori Kuroda
  Shigenori Kuroda
  Shigenori Kuroda was a general of the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II.-Biography:Kuroda was commissioned as an infantry officer in 1909. He graduated from War College in 1916 and became a military observer in Europe. It was during World War I. From 1935-1937, he served as military...
  
  : Minister of War
• Nobuyuki Abe: 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
• Kazushige Ugaki: War Vice-Minister
• Hajime Sugiyama: Vice-Minister of War
• Hideki Tōjō
  Hideki Tōjō
  Hideki Tōjō was a general of the Imperial Japanese Army , the leader of the Taisei Yokusankai, and the 40th Prime Minister of Japan during most of World War II, from 17 October 1941 to 22 July 1944...
  
  : Vice-Minister of War
• Heisuke Yanagawa
  Heisuke Yanagawa
  - Notes :...
  
  : War Vice-Minister
• Hyotaro Yamada: War Vice-Minister
• Heitarō Kimura: War Vice-Minister
• Koiso Kuniaki: War Vice-Minister
• Masataka Yamawaki: War Vice-Minister

Secretary to the War Minister

• Joichiro Sanada
  Joichiro Sanada
  was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II. Throughout much of the war, Sanada was an important and influential officer on the staff of the Imperial General Headquarters in Tokyo.-Biography:...
  
  : Secretary to War Minister; concurrently Adjutant in the same Ministry; Aide to the War Minister; Staff Officer, Tokyo Garrison Command
• Takushiro Hattori
  Takushiro Hattori
  was an Imperial Japanese Army officer. He became head of the Operations Section of the Army General Staff, 1941–5, ranked as colonel. He worked with Colonel Masanobu Tsuji, on Japanese planning for some of the major battles of World War II....
  
  : Secretary to the War Minister; Adjutant, War Ministry
• Joichiro Sanada
  Joichiro Sanada
  was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II. Throughout much of the war, Sanada was an important and influential officer on the staff of the Imperial General Headquarters in Tokyo.-Biography:...
  
  : Aide to War Minister, IGHQ
• Hiroo Sato: Adjutant to the War Minister
• Yoshio Kozuki: Secretary to the War Minister; Adjutant, War Ministry
• Toshizō Nishio
  Toshizo Nishio
  -External links:...
  
  : Adjutant, War Ministry; Secretary to the War Minister; Governor, Tokyo Metropolitan area
• Yozo Miyama: Senior Adjutant, War Ministry
• Okitsugu Arao
  Okitsugu Arao
  Colonel Okitsugu Arao was one of the original plotters in a scheme to prevent the Emperor's declaration of surrender at the end of World War II...
  
  : Secretary to the War Minister

Military Affairs Bureau, War Ministry

• Kenryo Sato: Chief, Army Affairs Bureau
• Kitsuju Ayabe: Member, Army Affairs Section
• Tetsuzan Nagata
  Tetsuzan Nagata
  -External links:...
  
  : Chief, Military Affairs Bureau
• Hitoshi Imamura
  Hitoshi Imamura
  -External links:...
  
  : Chief, Military Affairs Bureau, War Ministry
• Kiyotake Kawaguchi
  Kiyotake Kawaguchi
  -Web:...
  
  : Member, Military Affairs Bureau, War Ministry
• Heitarō Kimura: Chief, Military Administration Bureau, War Ministry
• Masahiko Takeshita
  Masahiko Takeshita
  Lt. Col. ' was the head of the domestic affairs section of the Military Affairs Bureau of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. In August 1945, he helped plan a coup along with Maj...
  
  : 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
• Takeji Nara
  Takeji Nara
  Baron was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army.-Biography:Nara was born in what is now part of Kanuma city, Tochigi Prefecture to a farming family. He attended military preparatory schools as a youth, and graduated from the 11th class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1889 as a second...
  
  : Head of Military Affairs Bureau, Ministry of War
• Kenji Hatanaka
  Kenji Hatanaka
  ' was a Japanese soldier, who was one one of the chief conspirators in the plot to seize the Imperial Palace and to prevent the broadcast of Emperor Hirohito's surrender speech.-Military Career:...
  
  : Officer in Military Affairs Section
• Yoshio Kozuki: assigned to the Military Affairs Bureau
• Tadamichi Kuribayashi
  Tadamichi Kuribayashi
  General was a haiku poet, diplomat, and General of the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff. He is best known for being overall commander of the Japanese garrison during the Battle of Iwo Jima....
  
  : Member, Military Affairs Bureau
• Renya Mutaguchi
  Renya Mutaguchi
  - Notes :...
  
  : Military Affairs Bureau, War Ministry
• Tetsuzan Nagata
  Tetsuzan Nagata
  -External links:...
  
  : Chief, Military Affairs Bureau
• Hidemitsu Nakano
  Hidemitsu Nakano
  was a senior officer in the Imperial Japanese Army. He was promoted as the Commanding Officer of the 51st Division in Manchuria on 16 November 1941. He was the commanding officer with the division in China, New Britain and New Guinea.-References:...
  
  : Member, Military Affairs Bureau, War Ministry
• Kanji Nishihara: Section Member, Military Affairs Bureau
• Kengo Noda: Member, Military Affairs Bureau, War Ministry
• Hideyoshi Obata
  Hideyoshi Obata
  was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II.-Biography:Obata was a native of Osaka prefecture. He graduated from the 23rd class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in December 1911, and was commissioned as a lieutenant in the cavalry...
  
  : Member, Military Affairs Bureau, War Ministry
• Sanji Okido: Member, Military Affairs Bureau, War Ministry
• Joichiro Sanada
  Joichiro Sanada
  was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II. Throughout much of the war, Sanada was an important and influential officer on the staff of the Imperial General Headquarters in Tokyo.-Biography:...
  
  : Chief, Military Affairs Bureau
• Minoru Sasaki
  Minoru Sasaki
  -External links:- Translation of the official record by the Japanese Demobilization Bureaux detailing the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy's participation in the Southwest Pacific area of the Pacific War.-Notes:...
  
  : Military Affairs Bureau, War Ministry
• Hajime Sugiyama: Chief, Military Affairs Bureau
• Sōsaku Suzuki: Member, Military Affairs Bureau
• Teiichi Suzuki
  Teiichi Suzuki
  was a Japanese army general who helped plan Japan's economy in World War II and later was imprisoned as a war criminal, died of heart failure. He was 100 years old.Mr...
  
  : Member, Military Affairs Bureau, War Ministry
• Sizuichi Tanaka: Member, Military Affairs Bureau
• Yuitsu Tsuchihashi: Member, Military Affairs Bureau, War Ministry
• Tomoyuki Yamashita
  Tomoyuki Yamashita
  General was a general of the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II. He was most famous for conquering the British colonies of Malaya and Singapore, earning the nickname "The Tiger of Malaya".- Biography :...
  
  : Member and Chief, Army Affairs Section, Military Affairs Bureau, War Ministry
• Takeo Yasuda
  Takeo Yasuda
  was a 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 Army Air Force, most notably his involvement in the early...
  
  : Chief, Defense Section, Military Affairs Bureau, War Ministry
• Isamu Yokoyama: Military Affairs Bureau, War Ministry
• Takeji Nara
  Takeji Nara
  Baron was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army.-Biography:Nara was born in what is now part of Kanuma city, Tochigi Prefecture to a farming family. He attended military preparatory schools as a youth, and graduated from the 11th class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1889 as a second...
  
  : Head of Military Affairs Bureau, Ministry of War
• Isamu Chō
  Isamu Cho
  - Notes :...
  
  : Attached to Military Affairs Bureau, Ministry of War

Economic Mobilization Bureau in War Ministry and related sections

• Shigenori Kuroda
  Shigenori Kuroda
  Shigenori Kuroda was a general of the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II.-Biography:Kuroda was commissioned as an infantry officer in 1909. He graduated from War College in 1916 and became a military observer in Europe. It was during World War I. From 1935-1937, he served as military...
  
  : Section Chief (Conscription), War Ministry
• Tetsuzan Nagata
  Tetsuzan Nagata
  -External links:...
  
  : Section Chief, Economic Mobilization Bureau
• Koiso Kuniaki: Chief, Materiel Mobilization Bureau, War Ministry
• Heitarō Kimura: Section Chief, Economic Mobilization Bureau, War Ministry
• Kanji Nishihara: attached to Army Technical Department
• Toshishiro Obata
  Toshishiro Obata
  is a Japanese actor and the founder of the International Shinkendo Federation.He studied under Gozo Shioda in the Yoshinkan Honbu Dojo, and studied the sword arts of Nakamura Ryu, Ioriken Battojutsu, Toyama Ryu, Yagyu Shinkage Ryu, Kashima Shin ryu, Ryukyu Kobudo, and others...
  
  : Chief, Operations Bureau, Army General Staff
• Joichiro Sanada
  Joichiro Sanada
  was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II. Throughout much of the war, Sanada was an important and influential officer on the staff of the Imperial General Headquarters in Tokyo.-Biography:...
  
  : Member, War Ministry Maintenance section; Chief, Army Affairs Section, Military Affairs Bureau, War Ministry
• Minoru Sasaki
  Minoru Sasaki
  -External links:- Translation of the official record by the Japanese Demobilization Bureaux detailing the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy's participation in the Southwest Pacific area of the Pacific War.-Notes:...
  
  : Ordnance Bureau, War Ministry, Army Ordnance Main Depot, Mechanized Department
• Sōsaku Suzuki: Army Ordnance, Administration Department
• Kenryo Sato: Chief, Military Affairs Bureau, War Ministry
• Teichii Suzuki: Military Affairs Bureau; concurrently Member of the Cabinet Research Board
• Shinichi Tanaka: Chief, Military Service Section, War Ministry
• Yoshijirō Umezu: Ordnance Bureau, War Ministry
• Isamu Yokoyama: 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
  Yasuji Okamura
  - Notes :...
  
  : Chief, Assignments Section, Personnel Bureau, War Ministry
• Tan Nukata: Chief, Personnel Bureau, War Ministry
• Sanji Okido: attached to Personnel Bureau, War Ministry
• Otozō Yamada: Chief, Personnel Bureau

Press Relations Branch, Ministry of War

• Masaharu Homma
  Masaharu Homma
  was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army. He is noteworthy for his role in the invasion and occupation of the Philippines during World War II. Homma, who was an amateur painter and playwright, was also known as the Poet General.-Biography:...
  
  : Chief of Press Relations Branch, Ministry of War

Army Field Marshal

• Prince Kan'in Kotohito
  Prince Kan'in Kotohito
  , wasthe sixth head of a cadet branch the Japanese imperial family, and a career army officer who served as Chief of the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff from 1931 to 1940.-Early years:...
  
  :- 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
  Nobuyoshi Muto
  -External links:*- Notes :...
  
  :- Field Marshal

Provost Marshal General

• Sadao Araki
  Sadao Araki
  Baron was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army before World War II. A charismatic leader and one of the principal nationalist right-wing political theorists in the late Japanese Empire, he was regarded as the leader of the radical faction within the politicized Japanese Army and served as...
  
  : 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.
• See List of Japanese Army Officers (WW2)

General Affairs Bureau, Provost Marshal Headquarters

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

Inspectorate General of Military Training

• Rikichi Andō
  Rikichi Ando
  -See also:* Taiwan under Japanese rule...
  
  : Vice-Chief Inspectorate General of Military Training
• Sadao Araki
  Sadao Araki
  Baron was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army before World War II. A charismatic leader and one of the principal nationalist right-wing political theorists in the late Japanese Empire, he was regarded as the leader of the radical faction within the politicized Japanese Army and served as...
  
  : Inspector General of Military Training
• Shunroku Hata: Inspector General of Artillery Training
• Harukichi Hyakutake: Inspector General of Signal Training
• Hitoshi Imamura
  Hitoshi Imamura
  -External links:...
  
  : Deputy Chief, Inspectorate General of Military Training
• Masatane Kanda
  Masatane Kanda
  -Notes:...
  
  : Department Chief, Inspectorate General of Military Training
• Masakazu Kawabe
  Masakazu Kawabe
  was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army. He held important commands in the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War, and during World War II in the Burma Campaign and defense of the Japanese homeland late in the war...
  
  : Section Member, Inspectorate General of Military Training
• Heitarō Kimura: Artillery Department, Office of Military Training
• Kenzo Kitano: Section Member, Inspectorate General of Military Training
• Shigenori Kuroda
  Shigenori Kuroda
  Shigenori Kuroda was a general of the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II.-Biography:Kuroda was commissioned as an infantry officer in 1909. He graduated from War College in 1916 and became a military observer in Europe. It was during World War I. From 1935-1937, he served as military...
  
  : Office of Military Training
• Jinsaburo Mazaki: Section Chief, Office of Military Training; also Inspector General of Military Training
• Akira Mutō
  Akira Muto
  - Notes :...
  
  : Member, Inspectorate General of Military Training
• Tasuku Okada: Member, Inspectorate General of Military Training
• Ichiro Shichida: Section Chief, Inspectorate General of Military Training
• Tokomatsu Shigeta: Inspector General of Artillery Training
• Sōsaku Suzuki: 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)
• Heisuke Yanagawa
  Heisuke Yanagawa
  - Notes :...
  
  : Inspector-General of Cavalry Training

Imperial Army-Navy military teaching and training services units

See: Military instructors and trainers of the Empire of Japan

Military instructors and trainers of the Empire of Japan

A list of Imperial Army-Navy personnel with responsibility for military teaching and training of new recruits.Commandants and Directors in Army War College*Sadao Araki:- Commandant, War College,*Yaezo Akashiba:- Director War College...

Army Officers in Reserve list

• Sadao Araki
  Sadao Araki
  Baron was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army before World War II. A charismatic leader and one of the principal nationalist right-wing political theorists in the late Japanese Empire, he was regarded as the leader of the radical faction within the politicized Japanese Army and served as...
  
  : retired, March 1936, later enter in politic activities
• Jirō Minami
  Jiro Minami
  - Notes :...
  
  : placed on reserve list, 1936, later reacalled
• Nobuyuki Abe: In 1936 put on reserve list with rank of general
• Rikichi Andō
  Rikichi Ando
  -See also:* Taiwan under Japanese rule...
  
  : transferred to reserve list, January 1941; recalled to active duty
• Keisuke Fujie
  Keisuke Fujie
  - Notes :...
  
  : retired, April 1945; recalled to active duty
• Masaharu Homma
  Masaharu Homma
  was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army. He is noteworthy for his role in the invasion and occupation of the Philippines during World War II. Homma, who was an amateur painter and playwright, was also known as the Poet General.-Biography:...
  
  : transferred to First Reserve List, August 1943
• Shōjirō Iida
  Shojiro Iida
  - Notes :...
  
  : retired, December 1944; later recalled
• Kanji Ishiwara: retired, 1938; recalled to active duty, 1938–40
• Kiyotake Kawaguchi
  Kiyotake Kawaguchi
  -Web:...
  
  : unassigned list, March 1943; transferred to first reserve list, April 1943
• Teiichi Suzuki
  Teiichi Suzuki
  was a Japanese army general who helped plan Japan's economy in World War II and later was imprisoned as a war criminal, died of heart failure. He was 100 years old.Mr...
  
  : transferred to first reserve list
• Renya Mutaguchi
  Renya Mutaguchi
  - Notes :...
  
  : retired, December 1944
• Toshizō Nishio
  Toshizo Nishio
  -External links:...
  
  : placed on reserve list, 1942
• Ichiro Shicida: retired, April 1945; recalled to active duty
• Hideki Tōjō
  Hideki Tōjō
  Hideki Tōjō was a general of the Imperial Japanese Army , the leader of the Taisei Yokusankai, and the 40th Prime Minister of Japan during most of World War II, from 17 October 1941 to 22 July 1944...
  
  : relieved of all military and political posts, July 1944; retired to first reserve list
• Kioji Tominaga: transferred to first reserve list (Formosa), May 1945
• Koiso Kuniaki: retired to first reserve list, July 1938
• Yoshitoshi Tokugawa
  Yoshitoshi Tokugawa
  -External links:* * * http://www.rcooper.0catch.com/etokugaw.htm- Notes :...
  
  : Was entered on Reserve list (1939), for later retirement to civilian life (1939). He was called to operational service during 1944-45.

Deputy Chief of Army General Staff

• Jun Ushiroku
  Jun Ushiroku
  - Notes :...
  
  : Senior Deputy Chief of Army General Staff
• Hikosaburo Hata: Second Deputy Chief of Army General Staff
• Torashirō Kawabe
  Torashiro Kawabe
  - Notes :...
  
  : Deputy Chief of Army General Staff
• Hajime Sugiyama: Deputy Chief of Army General Staff

Chief of Army General Staff

• Prince Kan'in Kotohito
  Prince Kan'in Kotohito
  , wasthe sixth head of a cadet branch the Japanese imperial family, and a career army officer who served as Chief of the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff from 1931 to 1940.-Early years:...
  
  : Chief of the Army General Staff
• Hideki Tōjō
  Hideki Tōjō
  Hideki Tōjō was a general of the Imperial Japanese Army , the leader of the Taisei Yokusankai, and the 40th Prime Minister of Japan during most of World War II, from 17 October 1941 to 22 July 1944...
  
  : Chief of Army General Staff
• Yoshijirō Umezu: Chief of Army General Staff
• Hajime Sugiyama: Chief of Army General Staff

1st Bureau Chief of Army General Staff

• Kitsuju Ayabe: 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
  Kiichiro Higuchi
  -Notes:...
  
  : Head 2nd Bureau General Staff

Vice Chief of Army General Staff

• Kiyoshi Imai: Vice Chief of Army General Staff
• Nobuyushi Muto: Vice Chief of Army General Staff

Army General Staff

• Hideo Iwakuro
  Hideo Iwakuro
  - Notes :...
  
  
• Muraji Yano
• Saburo Hayashi
• Hatazō Adachi
  Hatazo Adachi
  was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.-Early career:Adachi was born into an impoverished samurai family in Ishikawa Prefecture in 1890...
  
  
• Rikichi Andō
  Rikichi Ando
  -See also:* Taiwan under Japanese rule...
  
  
• Sadao Araki
  Sadao Araki
  Baron was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army before World War II. A charismatic leader and one of the principal nationalist right-wing political theorists in the late Japanese Empire, he was regarded as the leader of the radical faction within the politicized Japanese Army and served as...
  
  
• Okitsugu Arao
  Okitsugu Arao
  Colonel Okitsugu Arao was one of the original plotters in a scheme to prevent the Emperor's declaration of surrender at the end of World War II...
  
  
• Kitsuju Ayabe
• Kenji Doihara
  Kenji Doihara
  was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II. He was instrumental in the Japanese invasion of Manchuria for which he earned fame taking the nickname 'Lawrence of Manchuria', a reference to the Lawrence of Arabia....
  
  
• Keisuke Fujie
  Keisuke Fujie
  - Notes :...
  
  
• Shunroku Hata
• Takushiro Hattori
  Takushiro Hattori
  was an Imperial Japanese Army officer. He became head of the Operations Section of the Army General Staff, 1941–5, ranked as colonel. He worked with Colonel Masanobu Tsuji, on Japanese planning for some of the major battles of World War II....
  
  
• Prince Higashikuni Naruhiko
• Kiichiro Higuchi
  Kiichiro Higuchi
  -Notes:...
  
  
• Masaharu Homma
  Masaharu Homma
  was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army. He is noteworthy for his role in the invasion and occupation of the Philippines during World War II. Homma, who was an amateur painter and playwright, was also known as the Poet General.-Biography:...
  
  
• Prince Chichibu
  Prince Chichibu
  , also known as Prince Yasuhito, was the second son of Emperor Taishō and a younger brother of the Emperor Shōwa. As a member of the Imperial House of Japan, he was the patron of several sporting, medical, and international exchange organizations...
  
  
• Harukichi Hyakutake
• Jo Iimura
  Jo Iimura
  - Notes :...
  
  
• Hitoshi Imamura
  Hitoshi Imamura
  -External links:...
  
  
• Kanji Ishiwara
• Masatane Kanda
  Masatane Kanda
  -Notes:...
  
  
• Tadasu Kataoka
• Masakazu Kawabe
  Masakazu Kawabe
  was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army. He held important commands in the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War, and during World War II in the Burma Campaign and defense of the Japanese homeland late in the war...
  
  
• Torashirō Kawabe
  Torashiro Kawabe
  - Notes :...
  
  
• Kiyotake Kawabe
• Heitarō Kimura
• Seiichi Kita
• Kenzo Kitano
• Kuniaki Koiso
  Kuniaki Koiso
  - Notes :...
  
  
• Yoshio Kozuki
• Shuichi Miyazaki
• Takeshi Mori
  Takeshi Mori (commander)
  - Notes :...
  
  
• Renya Mutaguchi
  Renya Mutaguchi
  - Notes :...
  
  
• Akira Mutō
  Akira Muto
  - Notes :...
  
  
• Tetsuzan Nagata
  Tetsuzan Nagata
  -External links:...
  
  
• Hidemitsu Nakano
  Hidemitsu Nakano
  was a senior officer in the Imperial Japanese Army. He was promoted as the Commanding Officer of the 51st Division in Manchuria on 16 November 1941. He was the commanding officer with the division in China, New Britain and New Guinea.-References:...
  
  
• Mitsuo Nakazawa
• Masahiko Takeshita
  Masahiko Takeshita
  Lt. Col. ' was the head of the domestic affairs section of the Military Affairs Bureau of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. In August 1945, he helped plan a coup along with Maj...
  
  
• Kengo Noda
• Shihei Oba
• Hideyoshi Obata
  Hideyoshi Obata
  was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II.-Biography:Obata was a native of Osaka prefecture. He graduated from the 23rd class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in December 1911, and was commissioned as a lieutenant in the cavalry...
  
  
• Toshishiro Obata
  Toshishiro Obata
  is a Japanese actor and the founder of the International Shinkendo Federation.He studied under Gozo Shioda in the Yoshinkan Honbu Dojo, and studied the sword arts of Nakamura Ryu, Ioriken Battojutsu, Toyama Ryu, Yagyu Shinkage Ryu, Kashima Shin ryu, Ryukyu Kobudo, and others...
  
  
• Tasuku Okada
• Sanji Okido
• Minoru Sasaki
  Minoru Sasaki
  -External links:- Translation of the official record by the Japanese Demobilization Bureaux detailing the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy's participation in the Southwest Pacific area of the Pacific War.-Notes:...
  
  
• Ichiro Shichida
• Hajime Sugiyama
• Sōsaku Suzuki
• Teiichi Suzuki
  Teiichi Suzuki
  was a Japanese army general who helped plan Japan's economy in World War II and later was imprisoned as a war criminal, died of heart failure. He was 100 years old.Mr...
  
  
• Shinichi Tanaka
• Shizuichi Tanaka
  Shizuichi Tanaka
  - Notes :...
  
  
• Kumaichi Teramoto
• Kyoji Tominaga
• Yuitsu Tsuchihashi deputy Chief-of-Staff of China Expeditionary Army in October 1940.
• Toshimichi Uemura
• Otozō Yamada
• Tomoyuki Yamashita
  Tomoyuki Yamashita
  General was a general of the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II. He was most famous for conquering the British colonies of Malaya and Singapore, earning the nickname "The Tiger of Malaya".- Biography :...
  
  
• Isamu Yokoyama
• Shizuo Yokoyama
  Shizuo Yokoyama
  -External links:* - Notes :...
  
  

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
• Kitsuju Ayabe: 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: Chief, Second Bureau (Intelligence Division), Army General Staff, at the time of the outbreak of the Pacific War
  Pacific War
  The Pacific War, also sometimes called the Asia-Pacific War refers broadly to the parts of World War II that took place in the Pacific Ocean, its islands, and in East Asia, then called the Far East...
  
  . His staff consisted of Colonel Kotani, Navy officer Captain Onoda, and Mr.Yosano, Foreign Office Chancellor.
• Seizo Arisue: Chief, Second Bureau (Intelligence Division), Army General Staff
• Harukichi Hyakutake: 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
  Hideki Tōjō
  Hideki Tōjō was a general of the Imperial Japanese Army , the leader of the Taisei Yokusankai, and the 40th Prime Minister of Japan during most of World War II, from 17 October 1941 to 22 July 1944...
  
  , the highest operative Chief in Japanese Army Intelligence Services in wartime
• Prince Takeda Tsuneyoshi 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
• Torashirō Kawabe
  Torashiro Kawabe
  - Notes :...
  
   Staff Officer (Operations/Intelligence), Kwantung Army
• Kingoro Hashimoto
  Kingoro Hashimoto
  was a soldier in the Imperial Japanese Army and politician.-Early career:Hashimoto was born in Okayama City, and a graduate of the 23rd class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1911. He subsequently graduated from the Army Staff College in 1920. In April 1922, he was assigned to the Kwangtung...
  
   Chief, Special Service Agency, Hailar, Kwantung Army
• Harukichi Hyakutake Chief of the Special Service Agency, Kwantung Army in Harbin
• Kuniaki Koiso
  Kuniaki Koiso
  - Notes :...
  
   leader of Special Services Agency in Manchukuo
• Michitarō Komatsubara
  Michitaro 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 Academy in 1905. He served as a military attaché to Russia...
  
   intelligence chief of Special Services Agency in Harbin for some time
• Noboyushi Obata (Shinryo) chief of Special Services Agency in Harbin
• Kanji Tsuneoka Directed the Mongol department of Kwantung Army in land and native saboteurs and secret agent units
• Hiroshi Akita Chief of German Section of Japanese Military Intelligence in this period
• Masayoshi Yamamoto 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
  Okitsugu Arao
  Colonel Okitsugu Arao was one of the original plotters in a scheme to prevent the Emperor's declaration of surrender at the end of World War II...
  
  : Section Chief (Railways and Shipping), Army General Staff

Army Ordnance and Army Shipping Department

• Yoshio Kozuki: Commanding General, Shipping Transportation Headquarters
• Sōsaku Suzuki: Army Ordnance, Administration Department; Chief, Army Shipping Department Shipping Transportation Headquarters
• Hideo Baba: General Officer Commanding Army Maritime Transport Command
• Hakaru Gondo: Commanding Officer 13th Shipping Group

Chairman of the Military Affairs Bureau

• Tetsuzan Nagata
  Tetsuzan Nagata
  -External links:...
  
  : Military Affairs Bureau and Economic Mobilization Bureau
• Kenryo Sato: Chief of the Military Affairs Bureau, Government Planning Board
• Rikichi Andō
  Rikichi Ando
  -See also:* Taiwan under Japanese rule...
  
  : Chief, Military Administration Section, Military Administration Bureau
• Renya Mutaguchi
  Renya Mutaguchi
  - Notes :...
  
  : Military Affairs Bureau
• Akiho Ishii: Chief, Military Affairs Section, War Ministry
• Okitsugu Arao
  Okitsugu Arao
  Colonel Okitsugu Arao was one of the original plotters in a scheme to prevent the Emperor's declaration of surrender at the end of World War II...
  
  : Chief, Army Affairs Section, Military Affairs Bureau
• Susumu Nishiura: Chief, Army Affairs Section, War Ministry
• Tan Nukata: Chief, General Affairs Bureau
• Hitoshi Imamura
  Hitoshi Imamura
  -External links:...
  
  : Section Chief, Military Affairs Bureau
• Yoshio Kozuki: Military Affairs Bureau and Military Administration Bureau; member Military Administration Bureau
• Kanji Nishihara: Section Member, Military Affairs Bureau; Inspector General of Chemical Warfare
• Takeo Yasuda
  Takeo Yasuda
  was a 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 Army Air Force, most notably his involvement in the early...
  
  : 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
  Juro Goto
  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....
  
  : 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
• Kumaichi Teramoto: Member, Administrative Division, Army Aeronautical Department
• Takeo Yasuda
  Takeo Yasuda
  was a 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 Army Air Force, most notably his involvement in the early...
  
  : Chief, Administrative Division, Army Aeronautical Department
• Koiso Kuniaki: Chief, Administrative Division, Army Aeronautical Department
• Tsuneori Kaya: Attached to Administration, Army Aeronautical Department, Ministry of War

Chief of the Army Aviation Headquarters

• Tomoyuki Yamashita
  Tomoyuki Yamashita
  General was a general of the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II. He was most famous for conquering the British colonies of Malaya and Singapore, earning the nickname "The Tiger of Malaya".- Biography :...
  
  : Chief of the Army Aviation Headquarters

Inspectorate General of Army Air Force

• Tomoyuki Yamashita
  Tomoyuki Yamashita
  General was a general of the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II. He was most famous for conquering the British colonies of Malaya and Singapore, earning the nickname "The Tiger of Malaya".- Biography :...
  
  : Inspector General of Army Aviation
• Prince Mikasa
  Prince Mikasa
  is a member of the Imperial House of Japan. He is the fourth and youngest son of Emperor Taishō and Empress Teimei. His eldest brother was Emperor Shōwa , and is the only surviving paternal uncle of Emperor Akihito. With the death of his sister-in-law, Princess Takamatsu , on 17 December 2004, he...
  
  : Inspector General of Army Aviation
• Korechika Anami: Inspector General of Army Aviation
• Torashirō Kawabe
  Torashiro Kawabe
  - Notes :...
  
  : Deputy Chief, Inspectorate General of Air Force
• Hideki Tōjō
  Hideki Tōjō
  Hideki Tōjō was a general of the Imperial Japanese Army , the leader of the Taisei Yokusankai, and the 40th Prime Minister of Japan during most of World War II, from 17 October 1941 to 22 July 1944...
  
  : Inspector General of Army Aviation
• Kenji Doihara
  Kenji Doihara
  was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II. He was instrumental in the Japanese invasion of Manchuria for which he earned fame taking the nickname 'Lawrence of Manchuria', a reference to the Lawrence of Arabia....
  
  : Inspector General of Army Aviation

Air Armies General Commanders

• Masakazu Kawabe
  Masakazu Kawabe
  was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army. He held important commands in the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War, and during World War II in the Burma Campaign and defense of the Japanese homeland late in the war...
  
  : Commanding General, Air General Army, (took charge of Army air operations in homeland, Chosen
  Korea under Japanese rule
  Korea was under Japanese rule as part of Japan's 35-year imperialist expansion . Japanese rule ended in 1945 shortly after the Japanese defeat in World War II....
  
   and Ryukyus
  Ryukyu Islands
  The , also known as the , is a chain of islands in the western Pacific, on the eastern limit of the East China Sea and to the southwest of the island of Kyushu in Japan. From about 1829 until the mid 20th century, they were alternately called Luchu, Loochoo, or Lewchew, akin to the Mandarin...
  
  )
• Takeo Yasuda
  Takeo Yasuda
  was a 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 Army Air Force, most notably his involvement in the early...
  
  : Commanding General, First Air Army
• Torashirō Kawabe
  Torashiro Kawabe
  - Notes :...
  
  : Commanding General, Second Air Army (Manchuria)
• Hideyoshi Obata
  Hideyoshi Obata
  was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II.-Biography:Obata was a native of Osaka prefecture. He graduated from the 23rd class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in December 1911, and was commissioned as a lieutenant in the cavalry...
  
  : 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
  Combined Fleet
  The was the main ocean-going component of the Imperial Japanese Navy. The Combined Fleet was not a standing force, but a temporary force formed for the duration of a conflict or major naval maneuvers from various units normally under separate commands in peacetime....
  
  
• Kumaichi Teramoto: 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
  Seoul
  Seoul , officially the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. A megacity with a population of over 10 million, it is the largest city proper in the OECD developed world...
  
  , Chosen
  Korea under Japanese rule
  Korea was under Japanese rule as part of Japan's 35-year imperialist expansion . Japanese rule ended in 1945 shortly after the Japanese defeat in World War II....
  
  
• Prince Un Yi
  Crown Prince Euimin
  Prince Imperial Yeong, the Crown Prince Uimin , also known as Yi Un, Yi Eun, Lee Eun, and Un Yi , was the 28th Head of Korean Imperial House, and the last crown prince of Korea....
  
  : General Officer Commanding 1st Air Army

Air Groups Commanders

• Michio Sugawara: First Air Group Commander
• Kumaichi Teramoto: Commanding General, Second Air Group (LtGen)
• Hideyoshi Obata
  Hideyoshi Obata
  was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II.-Biography:Obata was a native of Osaka prefecture. He graduated from the 23rd class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in December 1911, and was commissioned as a lieutenant in the cavalry...
  
  : 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: LtCol/Colonel (Air Force) Officer attached to 7th Air Regiment; later 7th Air Regiment Commander
• Kumaichi Teramoto: Regimental Commander, 8th Air Regiment (Colonel, Air Force)
• Takuma Shimoyama: Regimental Commander, 16th Air Regiment
• Hideyoshi Obata
  Hideyoshi Obata
  was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II.-Biography:Obata was a native of Osaka prefecture. He graduated from the 23rd class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in December 1911, and was commissioned as a lieutenant in the cavalry...
  
  : Regimental Commander, 16th Air Regiment
• Yoshitoshi Tokugawa
  Yoshitoshi Tokugawa
  -External links:* * * http://www.rcooper.0catch.com/etokugaw.htm- Notes :...
  
  : 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
  Prince Mikasa
  is a member of the Imperial House of Japan. He is the fourth and youngest son of Emperor Taishō and Empress Teimei. His eldest brother was Emperor Shōwa , and is the only surviving paternal uncle of Emperor Akihito. With the death of his sister-in-law, Princess Takamatsu , on 17 December 2004, he...
  
  : Member of Staff of the Air General Army
• Rikishi Tsukada: 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
  Hideyoshi Obata
  was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II.-Biography:Obata was a native of Osaka prefecture. He graduated from the 23rd class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in December 1911, and was commissioned as a lieutenant in the cavalry...
  
  : Colonel (Air Force) --attached to Second Air Group Headquarters

Commanding Officer in Air Battalion

• Yoshitoshi Tokugawa
  Yoshitoshi Tokugawa
  -External links:* * * http://www.rcooper.0catch.com/etokugaw.htm- Notes :...
  
  : Commanding Officer 2nd Air Battalion

Acting General Officer Commanding Army Aviation Corps

• Yoshitoshi Tokugawa
  Yoshitoshi Tokugawa
  -External links:* * * http://www.rcooper.0catch.com/etokugaw.htm- Notes :...
  
  : 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
  Hideyoshi Obata
  was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II.-Biography:Obata was a native of Osaka prefecture. He graduated from the 23rd class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in December 1911, and was commissioned as a lieutenant in the cavalry...
  
  : 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
• Kumaichi Teramoto: Director/Superintendent, Hamamatsu Army Air School (MajGen)
• Rikishi Tsukada: Instructor, Hamamatsu Army Air School
• Yoshitoshi Tokugawa
  Yoshitoshi Tokugawa
  -External links:* * * http://www.rcooper.0catch.com/etokugaw.htm- Notes :...
  
  : 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
• Kumaichi Teramoto: 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

• Takeo Yasuda
  Takeo Yasuda
  was a 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 Army Air Force, most notably his involvement in the early...
  
  : Chief, Second Bureau, Army Aeronautical Department

Chief of Army Air Technical Laboratories

• Takeo Yasuda
  Takeo Yasuda
  was a 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 Army Air Force, most notably his involvement in the early...
  
  : Chief, Army Air Technical Laboratories

Technicals and Experts in Army Aeronautical Sciences

• Michio Sugawara: Major (Air Force); Section Chief, Army Aeronautical Department
• Kumaichi Teramoto: LtCol (Air Force), Officer attached; later member of Army Aeronautical Department
• Takeo Yasuda
  Takeo Yasuda
  was a 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 Army Air Force, most notably his involvement in the early...
  
  : Officer attached to Army Air Technical Laboratories (MajGen)
• Yoshitoshi Tokugawa
  Yoshitoshi Tokugawa
  -External links:* * * http://www.rcooper.0catch.com/etokugaw.htm- Notes :...
  
  : 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 Kato
  Tateo Kato
  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:...
  
  : 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
• 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 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
  Kenkichi Ueda
  -External links:*- Notes :...
  
  : Commander of Kwantung Army
• Shigeru Honjō
  Shigeru Honjo
  -Notes:...
  
  : Commander of Kwantung Army
• Yoshitake Muraoka: Commander of Kwantung Army
• Senjuro Hayashi
  Senjuro Hayashi
  was an Imperial Japanese Army commander of the Chosen Army of Japan in Korea during the Mukden Incident and the invasion of Manchuria, and a Japanese politician and the 33rd Prime Minister of Japan from February 2, 1937 to June 4, 1937.-Biography:...
  
  : Commander of Kwantung Army, Prime Minister
• Yoshijirō Umezu: Commander of Kwantung Army, War Vice Minister
• Jirō Minami
  Jiro Minami
  - Notes :...
  
  : Commander of Kwantung Army; concurrently Official Ambassador to Manchukuo
• Tomoyuki Yamashita
  Tomoyuki Yamashita
  General was a general of the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II. He was most famous for conquering the British colonies of Malaya and Singapore, earning the nickname "The Tiger of Malaya".- Biography :...
  
  : Commander of Kwantung Army
• Otozō Yamada: Commander of Kwantung Army
• Takuma Shimoyama: Kwantung Army Headquarters; Adviser, Manchukuoan Military Administration Bureau
• Shizuo Yokoyama
  Shizuo Yokoyama
  -External links:* - Notes :...
  
  : Commander of Railway Sector Headquarters, Kwantung Army
• Atazo Adachi: Commander, Kwantung Army Railroad Command

Kwantung Government-General Administration

• Sadao Araki
  Sadao Araki
  Baron was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army before World War II. A charismatic leader and one of the principal nationalist right-wing political theorists in the late Japanese Empire, he was regarded as the leader of the radical faction within the politicized Japanese Army and served as...
  
  : Officer (Major), Kwantung Government-General
• Koiso Kuniaki: Army Staff Officer, Kwantung Government-General
• Jun Ushiroku
  Jun Ushiroku
  - Notes :...
  
  : 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 of Japan
  Organization of the Kwantung Army of JapanThe following are commanders and units of the Japanese army which was stationed in the Kwantung peninsula of Manchuria from 1910 to 1945.-Officers attached to Kwantung Army HQ:...
  
  

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 Imperial Japanese Army, Hokkai (North) region
  The was an army of the Imperial Japanese Army, responsible for defense of the northern region of the Japanese home islands, including Hokkaidō, Karafuto and the Chishima Islands.-History:...
  
  
• Organization of the China Garrison detachment of the Imperial Japanese Army (to 1937)
• Structure of the Japanese Army in Mengjiang
  Structure of the Japanese Army in Mengjiang
  Structure of the Japanese Army in Mengjiang.-Commanders of the Japanese Mongolian Garrison:*Yoshio Kozuki:- Commanding General, Mongolia Army*Ichiro Shichida:- Commanding General, Mongolia Garrison Army...
  
  
• Organization of Japanese Expeditionary forces in China
• Organization of Japanese forces in Southeast Asia
  Organization of Japanese forces in Southeast Asia
  Organization of Japanese forces in Southeast Asia during World War II-Southern Army Command :*Hisaichi Terauchi, Commander of Southern Army*Seiichi Aoki, Assistant Chief of Staff Southern Army...
  
  
• Organization of Imperial Japanese Army forces in the Pacific
  Organization of Imperial Japanese Army forces in the Pacific
  -Commanders-in-Chief of South Seas Detachment:*Korechika Anami:-General, to Southern Area Theater, where he directed operations in western New Guinea and Halmahera area*Tomitaro Horii:-Commanding General, South Seas Detachment...
  
  
• Organization of the Imperial Japanese Navy Alaskan Strike Group
  Organization of the Imperial Japanese Navy Alaskan Strike Group
  -Commander in Chief, Navy Alaskan Strike Group:*Boshiro Hosogaya:-Commander-in-Chief, Navy Alaskan Strike Group, Aleutian Campaign-1st Support Group Commander:*Boshiro Hosogaya:-command Heavy Cruiser Nachi and two destroyers-2nd Carrier Squad Commander:...
  
  
• Structure of the Imperial Japanese forces in the South Pacific Mandate
  Structure of the Imperial Japanese forces in the South Pacific Mandate
  Structure of the Japanese Forces in South Pacific MandateJapanese garrisons on the by-passed Pacific Islands 1944–1945, included South Pacific Mandate Force and nearest islands in period.-Commander-in-chief of South Pacific Detachment forces:...
  
  
• Organization of Japanese defensive units in Okinawa
  Organization of Japanese defensive units in Okinawa
  Organization of Japanese defensive units in Okinawa prior to the American invasion.The defense of Okinawa Island was weakened when the 9th Division wastransferred to Taiwan...
  
  

Commander in Chief of Kempeitai units

• Kesago Nakajima
  Kesago Nakajima
  - Notes :...
  
  : Since 1921-41 lead the Kempeitai operation inside Japan and Asia during wartimes
• Kenzo Kitano: Military Police (Gendarmerie) Commander, China Forces
• Hideki Tōjō
  Hideki Tōjō
  Hideki Tōjō was a general of the Imperial Japanese Army , the leader of the Taisei Yokusankai, and the 40th Prime Minister of Japan during most of World War II, from 17 October 1941 to 22 July 1944...
  
  : Commanding General, Military Police, Kwantung Army
• Sanji Okido: Commander, Military Police
• Takeshi Mori
  Takeshi Mori
  Takeshi Mori may refer to:*Takeshi Mori , commander of the Japanese Empire's First Imperial Guards Division, at the end of World War II*Takeshi Mori , anime director, storyboard artist, and script writer...
  
  : Deputy Chief, Military Police Headquarters
• Shizuichi Tanaka
  Shizuichi Tanaka
  - Notes :...
  
  : Chief, General Affairs Bureau; Military Police Forces Headquarters; Commander, Kwantung Army Military Police Units; Commander, Military Police Forces (LtGen)
• Keisuke Fujie
  Keisuke Fujie
  - Notes :...
  
  : 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
  Sadao Araki
  Baron was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army before World War II. A charismatic leader and one of the principal nationalist right-wing political theorists in the late Japanese Empire, he was regarded as the leader of the radical faction within the politicized Japanese Army and served as...
  
  : 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
  Shojiro Iida
  - Notes :...
  
  : 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
• Akira Mutō
  Akira Muto
  - Notes :...
  
  : Imperial Guard Division Commander; 2nd Imperial Guard Division Commander
• Nobuyoshi Obata: Commanding Officer, Transportation Regiment, Imperial Guard Division
• Tadasu Kataoka: Commander, Imperial Guard Cavalry Regiment; Commander, Imperial Guard Reconnaissance Regiment
• Tadamichi Kuribayashi
  Tadamichi Kuribayashi
  General was a haiku poet, diplomat, and General of the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff. He is best known for being overall commander of the Japanese garrison during the Battle of Iwo Jima....
  
  : Commanding General, 2nd Imperial Guard Depot Division (LtGen)
• Takeshi Mori
  Takeshi Mori (commander)
  - Notes :...
  
  : 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
  Hideo Iwakuro
  - Notes :...
  
  : 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
  Crown Prince Euimin
  Prince Imperial Yeong, the Crown Prince Uimin , also known as Yi Un, Yi Eun, Lee Eun, and Un Yi , was the 28th Head of Korean Imperial House, and the last crown prince of Korea....
  
  : 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
  Prince Kan'in Kotohito
  , wasthe sixth head of a cadet branch the Japanese imperial family, and a career army officer who served as Chief of the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff from 1931 to 1940.-Early years:...
  
  : General Officer Commanding Imperial Guards Division
• Kazuo Mizutani
  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 was killed by the lead conspirator, Maj. Kenji Hatanaka...
  
  : 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
  Koichi Kido
  Marquis served as Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal from 1940 to 1945, and was the closest advisor to Emperor Showa throughout World War II.Kido was the grandson of Kido Takayoshi, one of the leaders of the Meiji Restoration...
  
  : Home Affairs Minister
• Hideki Tōjō
  Hideki Tōjō
  Hideki Tōjō was a general of the Imperial Japanese Army , the leader of the Taisei Yokusankai, and the 40th Prime Minister of Japan during most of World War II, from 17 October 1941 to 22 July 1944...
  
  : Home Affairs Minister
• Hiranuma Kiichirō: Home Affairs Minister
• Saburo Ando : Home Affairs Minister
• Tsuneo Matsudaira : Home Affairs Minister
• Akira Kazami
  Akira Kazami
  Akira Kazami was a Japanese politician. From no great prominence, he was made secretary-General of the first cabinet of Prince Konoe, in 1937...
  
  : Justice Ministry
• Heisuke Yanagawa
  Heisuke Yanagawa
  - Notes :...
  
  : 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
  Kesago Nakajima
  - Notes :...
  
  : Since 1921-41 lead the State Police (Tokko) operations inside Japan and Asia during wartimes
• Officer Maruyama: underground unit, in Censorship department in Tokko Intelligence service, in Tokyo, Japan

Marine Ministers

• Shigetarō Shimada
  Shigetaro Shimada
  was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. He also served as Navy Minister-Biography:A native of Tokyo, Shimada graduated from the 32nd class of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy in 1904...
  
  : Ministry of the Navy of Japan
  Ministry of the Navy of Japan
  The was a cabinet-level ministry in the Empire of Japan charged with the administrative affairs of the Imperial Japanese Navy . It existed from 1872 to 1945.-History:...
  
  ; Commandant in Kure and Yokosuka Naval Districts; Commander, China Navy Area Fleet; Chief of Naval General Staff
• Teijirō Toyoda
  Teijiro Toyoda
  , was a career naval officer who served as Minister for Foreign Affairs in 1941, and admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.- Early life :...
  
  : Marine Minister
• Takasumi Oka: Marine minister
• Mineo Ōsumi
  Mineo Osumi
  Baron was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy and served twice as Minister of the Navy of Japan during the volatile 1930s.-Early life:Ōsumi was born in Kōchi Prefecture, but grew up in Aichi Prefecture. He was a graduate of the 24th class of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy, where he...
  
  : Marine Minister
• Koshiró Oikawa
  Koshiro Oikawa
  was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy and Naval Minister during World War II.-Biography:Oikawa was born into a wealthy family in rural Koshi County, Niigata Prefecture, but was raised in Morioka city, Iwate prefecture in northern Japan....
  
  : Marine Minister
• Naokuni Nomura
  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, ranked 43rd out of 172 cadets. He served his midshipman tour on the...
  
  : Marine Minister
• Mitsumasa Yonai
  Mitsumasa Yonai
  was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy, and politician. He was the 37th Prime Minister of Japan from 16 January to 22 July 1940.-Early life & Naval career:...
  
  : 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
  Kantaro Suzuki
  Baron was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy, member and final leader of the Taisei Yokusankai and 42nd Prime Minister of Japan from 7 April-17 August 1945.-Early life:...
  
  : Vice-Minister of Navy
• Shigeyoshi Inoue
  Shigeyoshi Inoue
  was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. He was commander of the Japanese 4th Fleet and later served as Vice-Minister of the Navy. A noted naval theorist, he was a strong advocate of naval aviation within the Japanese Navy...
  
  : Vice-Minister of Navy

Private Secretary to the Minister of the Navy

• Sokichi Takagi
  Sokichi Takagi
  -External links:*- Notes :...
  
  : Private Secretary to the Minister of the Navy

Navy Admirals of the Fleet

• Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu
  Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu
  was a scion of the Japanese imperial family and was a career naval officer who served as chief of staff of the Imperial Japanese Navy from 1932 to 1941.-Early life:...
  
  
• Isoroku Yamamoto
  Isoroku Yamamoto
  was a Japanese Naval Marshal General and the commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet during World War II, a graduate of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy and a student of Harvard University ....
  
  
• Osami Nagano
• Mineichi Koga
  Mineichi Koga
  - Notes :...
  
  

Navy Admirals

• Isoroku Yamamoto
  Isoroku Yamamoto
  was a Japanese Naval Marshal General and the commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet during World War II, a graduate of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy and a student of Harvard University ....
  
  
• Koshiro Oikawa
  Koshiro Oikawa
  was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy and Naval Minister during World War II.-Biography:Oikawa was born into a wealthy family in rural Koshi County, Niigata Prefecture, but was raised in Morioka city, Iwate prefecture in northern Japan....
  
  
• Soemu Toyoda
• Teijirō Toyoda
  Teijiro Toyoda
  , was a career naval officer who served as Minister for Foreign Affairs in 1941, and admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.- Early life :...
  
  
• Mitsumasa Yonai
  Mitsumasa Yonai
  was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy, and politician. He was the 37th Prime Minister of Japan from 16 January to 22 July 1940.-Early life & Naval career:...
  
  
• Saito Makoto
  Saito Makoto
  Viscount was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy, two-time Governor-General of Korea from 1919 to 1927 and from 1929 to 1931, and the 30th Prime Minister of Japan from May 26, 1932 to July 8, 1934.-Early life:...
  
  
• Kantarō Suzuki
  Kantaro Suzuki
  Baron was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy, member and final leader of the Taisei Yokusankai and 42nd Prime Minister of Japan from 7 April-17 August 1945.-Early life:...
  
  
• Chuichi Nagumo
  Chuichi Nagumo
  was a Japanese admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II and one time commander of the Kido Butai . He committed suicide during the Battle of Saipan.-Early life:...
  
  
• Shigetarō Shimada
  Shigetaro Shimada
  was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. He also served as Navy Minister-Biography:A native of Tokyo, Shimada graduated from the 32nd class of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy in 1904...
  
  
• Hiroaki Abe
  Hiroaki Abe
  was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.-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, with a ranking of 26th out of a class of 148 cadets. As a...
  
  

Navy Staff College's Research Department

• Sokichi Takagi
  Sokichi Takagi
  -External links:*- Notes :...
  
  : Member in Navy Staff College's Research Department

Third Department in Marine Ministry

• Shigetarō Shimada
  Shigetaro Shimada
  was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. He also served as Navy Minister-Biography:A native of Tokyo, Shimada graduated from the 32nd class of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy in 1904...
  
  : Chief of Third Department in Marine Ministry

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 Saburo Sakai
  Saburo Sakai
  Sub-Lieutenant was a Japanese naval aviator and flying ace of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. Sakai was the Imperial Navy's fourth-ranking ace and Japan's second leading fighter pilot to survive the war ....
  
  

Yokosuka Air Corps (Yokosuka Airfield,1943)

• Warrant Officer/Instructor Hiroyoshi Nishizawa
  Hiroyoshi Nishizawa
  Lieutenant Junior Grade was an ace of the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service during World War II.It is possible that Nishizawa was the most successful Japanese fighter ace of the war; he personally claimed to have had 87 aerial victories at the time of his death...
  
  

253rd Air Corps (Rabaul Airfield,1944)

• Warrant Officer Tetsuzo Iwamoto
  Tetsuzo Iwamoto
  Sub-Lieutenant Tetsuzō Iwamoto was one of the top scoring fighter aces of the Empire of Japan, during World War II. His total of confirmed claims is believed to be about 80....
  
  

303 Squadron, 203rd Air Corps (Kagoshima Airfield, 1945)

• Captain-Petty Officer Tanimizu

Navy General Staff's Intelligence Division

• Mineichi Koga
  Mineichi Koga
  - Notes :...
  
  : 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)
• Captain Onoda: 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
  British Empire
  The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom. It originated with the overseas colonies and trading posts established by England in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. At its height, it was the...
  
   in Southeast Asia
  Southeast Asia
  Southeast Asia, South-East Asia, South East Asia or Southeastern Asia is a subregion of Asia, consisting of the countries that are geographically south of China, east of India, west of New Guinea and north of Australia. The region lies on the intersection of geological plates, with heavy seismic...
  
   and Pacific Area.

Japanese Imperial Navy's Advisory Bureau on Jewish Affairs

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

Operation Section of Naval General Staff

• Shigeru Fukudome
  Shigeru Fukudome
  - Notes :...
  
  : Chief, of Operation Section of Naval General Staff

Plans Division Office of Operation Section in Naval General Staff

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

Technical Council in Navy Technical Department

• Mitsumasa Yonai
  Mitsumasa Yonai
  was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy, and politician. He was the 37th Prime Minister of Japan from 16 January to 22 July 1940.-Early life & Naval career:...
  
  : 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
  Mitsumasa Yonai
  was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy, and politician. He was the 37th Prime Minister of Japan from 16 January to 22 July 1940.-Early life & Naval career:...
  
  : Navy officer placed on reserve list
• Shigetarō Shimada
  Shigetaro Shimada
  was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. He also served as Navy Minister-Biography:A native of Tokyo, Shimada graduated from the 32nd class of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy in 1904...
  
  : retired to Reserve, January 1945 (at own request);

Chief of Naval General Staff

• Nobutake Kondō: Chief of Naval General Staff
• Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu
  Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu
  was a scion of the Japanese imperial family and was a career naval officer who served as chief of staff of the Imperial Japanese Navy from 1932 to 1941.-Early life:...
  
  : Chief of Naval General Staff
• Abo Kiyokazu: Chief of Naval General Staff
• Shigetarō Shimada
  Shigetaro Shimada
  was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. He also served as Navy Minister-Biography:A native of Tokyo, Shimada graduated from the 32nd class of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy in 1904...
  
  : Chief of Naval General Staff
• Osami Nagano: Chief of Naval General Staff
• Tokusaburo Ozawa: Chief of Naval General Staff
• Kantarō Suzuki
  Kantaro Suzuki
  Baron was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy, member and final leader of the Taisei Yokusankai and 42nd Prime Minister of Japan from 7 April-17 August 1945.-Early life:...
  
  : Chief of Naval General Staff
• Mineichi Koga
  Mineichi Koga
  - Notes :...
  
  : Chief of Naval General Staff

Staff Officer of Naval General Staff

• Shigetarō Shimada
  Shigetaro Shimada
  was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. He also served as Navy Minister-Biography:A native of Tokyo, Shimada graduated from the 32nd class of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy in 1904...
  
  : Staff Officer of Naval General Staff
• Prince Kuni Asaakira
  Prince Kuni Asaakira
  , was third head of the Kuni-no-miya, a collateral branch of the Japanese imperial family and vice admiral in the Japanese Imperial Navy during World War II...
  
  : Staff Officer of Naval General Staff

Vice-Chief of Naval General Staff

• Shigetarō Shimada
  Shigetaro Shimada
  was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. He also served as Navy Minister-Biography:A native of Tokyo, Shimada graduated from the 32nd class of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy in 1904...
  
  : Vice-Chief, Naval General Staff
• Seiichi Itō
  Seiichi Ito
  was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy and commander of the battleship on its final mission towards the end of World War II.-Early career:...
  
  : Vice-Chief of Naval Staff
• Shigeru Fukudome
  Shigeru Fukudome
  - Notes :...
  
  : Vice-Chief of Naval Staff
• Mineichi Koga
  Mineichi Koga
  - Notes :...
  
  : Vice-Chief of the Naval General Staff

Naval General Staff

• Tamon Yamaguchi: Member, Naval General Staff
• Shigetarō Shimada
  Shigetaro Shimada
  was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. He also served as Navy Minister-Biography:A native of Tokyo, Shimada graduated from the 32nd class of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy in 1904...
  
  : Member, Naval General Staff
• Kantarō Suzuki
  Kantaro Suzuki
  Baron was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy, member and final leader of the Taisei Yokusankai and 42nd Prime Minister of Japan from 7 April-17 August 1945.-Early life:...
  
  : Member, Naval General Staff
• Mitsumasa Yonai
  Mitsumasa Yonai
  was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy, and politician. He was the 37th Prime Minister of Japan from 16 January to 22 July 1940.-Early life & Naval career:...
  
  : Member, Naval General Staff
• Prince Nobuhito: Officer attached to Naval General Staff

Commander-in-Chief of Combined Fleet

• Kantarō Suzuki
  Kantaro Suzuki
  Baron was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy, member and final leader of the Taisei Yokusankai and 42nd Prime Minister of Japan from 7 April-17 August 1945.-Early life:...
  
  : Commander-in-Chief of Combined Fleet,
• Mitsumasa Yonai
  Mitsumasa Yonai
  was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy, and politician. He was the 37th Prime Minister of Japan from 16 January to 22 July 1940.-Early life & Naval career:...
  
  : Commander-in-Chief, Combined Fleet and, concurrently, First Fleet
• Shigetarō Shimada
  Shigetaro Shimada
  was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. He also served as Navy Minister-Biography:A native of Tokyo, Shimada graduated from the 32nd class of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy in 1904...
  
  : Chief of Staff 1st Fleet—Chief of Staff, Combined Fleet
• Isoroku Yamamoto
  Isoroku Yamamoto
  was a Japanese Naval Marshal General and the commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet during World War II, a graduate of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy and a student of Harvard University ....
  
  : Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet
• Mineichi Koga
  Mineichi Koga
  - Notes :...
  
  : Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet
• Soemu Toyoda: Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet
• Jisaburō Ozawa
  Jisaburo Ozawa
  was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. He was the last Commander-in-Chief of Combined Fleet. Many military historians regard Ozawa as one of the most capable Japanese flag officers.-Biography:...
  
  : Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet

Chief of Staff of Combined Fleet

• Shigetarō Shimada
  Shigetaro Shimada
  was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. He also served as Navy Minister-Biography:A native of Tokyo, Shimada graduated from the 32nd class of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy in 1904...
  
  : 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
  Mitsumasa Yonai
  was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy, and politician. He was the 37th Prime Minister of Japan from 16 January to 22 July 1940.-Early life & Naval career:...
  
  : Commander of First Naval Fleet
• Chuichi Nagumo
  Chuichi Nagumo
  was a Japanese admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II and one time commander of the Kido Butai . He committed suicide during the Battle of Saipan.-Early life:...
  
  : Commander of First Naval Fleet
• Isoroku Yamamoto
  Isoroku Yamamoto
  was a Japanese Naval Marshal General and the commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet during World War II, a graduate of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy and a student of Harvard University ....
  
  : Commander of First Naval Fleet

Commander of 2nd Naval Fleet

• Mitsumasa Yonai
  Mitsumasa Yonai
  was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy, and politician. He was the 37th Prime Minister of Japan from 16 January to 22 July 1940.-Early life & Naval career:...
  
  : Commander of 2nd Naval Fleet
• Nobutake Kondō: Commander of 2nd Naval Fleet
• Mineichi Koga
  Mineichi Koga
  - Notes :...
  
  : Commander of 2nd Naval Fleet

First Naval Air Fleet

• Chuichi Nagumo
  Chuichi Nagumo
  was a Japanese admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II and one time commander of the Kido Butai . He committed suicide during the Battle of Saipan.-Early life:...
  
  : 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
  Tamotsu Oishi
  was a career officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.-Biography:In Kōchi prefecture, Oishi graduated from the 48th class of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy in 1920, with a ranking of 13th out of a class of 171 cadets. As a midshipman, he served on the cruiser and battleship...
  
  : Senior Staff Officer of the First Naval Air Fleet

11th Navy Air Fleet

• Nishizō Tsukahara: Commander of the 11th Navy Air Fleet

• Jinichi Kusaka
  Jinichi Kusaka
  , was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. Fellow Admiral Ryūnosuke Kusaka was his cousin.-Biography:A native of Ishikawa Prefecture, Kusaka graduated from the 37th class of the Imperial Japanese Navy Academy, ranked 21st in a class of 179 cadets...
  
  : Commander of 11th Navy Air Fleet

Eighth Naval Fleet

• Gunichi Mikawa
  Gunichi Mikawa
  was a Vice-Admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.Mikawa was the commander of a heavy cruiser force that carried out spectacular I.J.N. victory over the U.S. Navy and the Royal Australian Navy at the Battle of Savo Island in Ironbottom Sound on the night of August 1942. In...
  
  : Commander of Eighth Naval Fleet
• Sentaro Omori
  Sentaro Omori
  , was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.-Early life:Ōmori was born in Kumamoto prefecture and graduated from the 41st class of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy in 1913. He was ranked 16th out of 118 cadets. He served his midshipman duty aboard the cruiser , battleships...
  
  : Commander of Eighth Naval Fleet

1st Carrier Division

• Chuichi Nagumo
  Chuichi Nagumo
  was a Japanese admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II and one time commander of the Kido Butai . He committed suicide during the Battle of Saipan.-Early life:...
  
  : Commander of 1st CarDiv
• Tamotsu Oishi
  Tamotsu Oishi
  was a career officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.-Biography:In Kōchi prefecture, Oishi graduated from the 48th class of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy in 1920, with a ranking of 13th out of a class of 171 cadets. As a midshipman, he served on the cruiser and battleship...
  
  : 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
  Chuichi Hara
  -External links:*...
  
  : Commander of 1st CarDiv
• Tamon Yamaguchi: Commander of 1st CarDiv

3rd Destroyer Flotilla

• Shintaro Hashimoto
  Shintaro Hashimoto
  -Web:- Firsthand account of the battle by a member of HMS Vigilant's crew.- Fairly detailed account of the battle...
  
  : Commander of 3rd Destroyer Flotilla
• Matsuji Ijuin
  Matsuji Ijuin
  - External links :* by Vincent P. O'Hara- Notes :...
  
  : Commander of 3rd Destroyer Flotilla

5th Cruiser Division

• Takeo Takagi
  Takeo Takagi
  was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.-Biography:Takagi was a native of Iwaki city, Fukushima prefecture. He was a graduate of the 39th class of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy, ranking 17th of 148 cadets in 1911...
  
  : Commander of 5th Cruiser Division
• Aritomo Goto
  Aritomo Goto
  was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.-Early career:Gotō was born in Ibaraki prefecture in 1888. He graduated from the 38th class of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy in 1910, ranked 30th out of a class of 149 cadets. As a midshipman, he served on the cruiser and...
  
  : Commander of 5th Cruiser Division

8th Cruiser Division

• Hiroaki Abe
  Hiroaki Abe
  was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.-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, with a ranking of 26th out of a class of 148 cadets. As a...
  
  : Commander of 8th Cruiser Division
• Tadaichi Hara: Commander of 8th Cruiser Division

5th Cruiser Division

• Takeo Takagi
  Takeo Takagi
  was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.-Biography:Takagi was a native of Iwaki city, Fukushima prefecture. He was a graduate of the 39th class of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy, ranking 17th of 148 cadets in 1911...
  
  : Commander of 5th Cruiser Division
• Sentaro Omori
  Sentaro Omori
  , was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.-Early life:Ōmori was born in Kumamoto prefecture and graduated from the 41st class of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy in 1913. He was ranked 16th out of 118 cadets. He served his midshipman duty aboard the cruiser , battleships...
  
  : Commander of 5th Cruiser Division

7th Cruiser Division

• Takeo Kurita
  Takeo Kurita
  Vice Admiral was a vice-admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.-Early life:Kurita was born in Mito city, Ibaraki Prefecture in 1889. He was sent off to Etajima in 1905 and graduated from the 38th class of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy in 1910, ranked 28th out of a class of...
  
  : Commander of 7th Cruiser Division
• Shoji Nishimura: Commander of 7th Cruiser Division

3rd Battleship Division (1st section)

• Gunichi Mikawa
  Gunichi Mikawa
  was a Vice-Admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.Mikawa was the commander of a heavy cruiser force that carried out spectacular I.J.N. victory over the U.S. Navy and the Royal Australian Navy at the Battle of Savo Island in Ironbottom Sound on the night of August 1942. In...
  
  : Commander of 3rd Battleship Division

First Naval Striking Force

• Takeo Kurita
  Takeo Kurita
  Vice Admiral was a vice-admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.-Early life:Kurita was born in Mito city, Ibaraki Prefecture in 1889. He was sent off to Etajima in 1905 and graduated from the 38th class of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy in 1910, ranked 28th out of a class of...
  
  : Commander of First Naval Striking Force (Battle of Leyte Gulf
  Battle of Leyte Gulf
  The Battle of Leyte Gulf, also called the "Battles for Leyte Gulf", and formerly known as the "Second Battle of the Philippine Sea", is generally considered to be the largest naval battle of World War II and, by some criteria, possibly the largest naval battle in history.It was fought in waters...
  
  , Philippines Campaign)

Officer in Japanese Vessel Raiders Force(1941-42)

• Tamotsu Oishi
  Tamotsu Oishi
  was a career officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.-Biography:In Kōchi prefecture, Oishi graduated from the 48th class of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy in 1920, with a ranking of 13th out of a class of 171 cadets. As a midshipman, he served on the cruiser and battleship...
  
  : 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
  Sokichi Takagi
  -External links:*- Notes :...
  
  : chief of staff of the Maizuru Naval Base
• Kiyohide Shima: chief of Staff of the Maizuru Naval District

Kure and Yokosuka Naval Districts

• Shigetarō Shimada
  Shigetaro Shimada
  was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. He also served as Navy Minister-Biography:A native of Tokyo, Shimada graduated from the 32nd class of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy in 1904...
  
  : Commandant, Yokosuka and Kure Naval Districts
• Mitsumasa Yonai
  Mitsumasa Yonai
  was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy, and politician. He was the 37th Prime Minister of Japan from 16 January to 22 July 1940.-Early life & Naval career:...
  
  : commanded Yokosuka Naval District

Chinkai Naval Station (Chosen)

• Mitsumasa Yonai
  Mitsumasa Yonai
  was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy, and politician. He was the 37th Prime Minister of Japan from 16 January to 22 July 1940.-Early life & Naval career:...
  
  : Vice-Admiral, commanded Chinkai Naval Station (Chosen
  Korea under Japanese rule
  Korea was under Japanese rule as part of Japan's 35-year imperialist expansion . Japanese rule ended in 1945 shortly after the Japanese defeat in World War II....
  
  )

Ryojun Naval Station (Kwantung)

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

Kodoha ideological advisers in government

• Sadao Araki
  Sadao Araki
  Baron was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army before World War II. A charismatic leader and one of the principal nationalist right-wing political theorists in the late Japanese Empire, he was regarded as the leader of the radical faction within the politicized Japanese Army and served as...
  
  
• Hideki Tōjō
  Hideki Tōjō
  Hideki Tōjō was a general of the Imperial Japanese Army , the leader of the Taisei Yokusankai, and the 40th Prime Minister of Japan during most of World War II, from 17 October 1941 to 22 July 1944...
  
  
• Koiso Kuniaki
• Jinsaburo Mazaki
• Heisuke Yanagawa
  Heisuke Yanagawa
  - Notes :...
  
  
• Hideyoshi Obata
  Hideyoshi Obata
  was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II.-Biography:Obata was a native of Osaka prefecture. He graduated from the 23rd class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in December 1911, and was commissioned as a lieutenant in the cavalry...
  
  
• Kazushige Ugaki
• Hajime Sugiyama
• Yoshijirō Umezu
• Tetsuzan Nagata
  Tetsuzan Nagata
  -External links:...
  
  

Welfare Minister

• Kōichi Kido
  Koichi Kido
  Marquis served as Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal from 1940 to 1945, and was the closest advisor to Emperor Showa throughout World War II.Kido was the grandson of Kido Takayoshi, one of the leaders of the Meiji Restoration...
  
  : 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 Keiseicho (Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department), and national civil police forces.

Minister of Education

• Sadao Araki
  Sadao Araki
  Baron was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army before World War II. A charismatic leader and one of the principal nationalist right-wing political theorists in the late Japanese Empire, he was regarded as the leader of the radical faction within the politicized Japanese Army and served as...
  
  : 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
  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....
  
   (Society for the Foundation of the State) right-wing secret society
  Secret society
  A secret society is a club or organization whose activities and inner functioning are concealed from non-members. The society may or may not attempt to conceal its existence. The term usually excludes covert groups, such as intelligence agencies or guerrilla insurgencies, which hide their...
  
  
• Hideki Tōjō
  Hideki Tōjō
  Hideki Tōjō was a general of the Imperial Japanese Army , the leader of the Taisei Yokusankai, and the 40th Prime Minister of Japan during most of World War II, from 17 October 1941 to 22 July 1944...
  
  : Minister of Education
• Kōichi Kido
  Koichi Kido
  Marquis served as Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal from 1940 to 1945, and was the closest advisor to Emperor Showa throughout World War II.Kido was the grandson of Kido Takayoshi, one of the leaders of the Meiji Restoration...
  
  : concurrently Minister of Education

Imperial Youth Federation/Imperial Youth Corps

• Kingoro Hashimoto
  Kingoro Hashimoto
  was a soldier in the Imperial Japanese Army and politician.-Early career:Hashimoto was born in Okayama City, and a graduate of the 23rd class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1911. He subsequently graduated from the Army Staff College in 1920. In April 1922, he was assigned to the Kwangtung...
  
  : 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.

Finance Minister

• Okinori Kaya
  Okinori Kaya
  was the Japanese finance minister between 1941-1944. In 1945, he was captured by the Allies, tried by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East and sentenced to 20 years imprisonment...
  
  : Finance Minister
  Finance minister
  The finance minister is a cabinet position in a government.A minister of finance has many different jobs in a government. He or she helps form the government budget, stimulate the economy, and control finances...
  
  , also opium dealer to the Chinese
  China
  Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
  
   and government supporter
• Kazuo Aoki
  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 , and was trained as a lawyer, graduating from the Law School of Tokyo Imperial...
  
  : Finance Minister
• Ikeda Shigeaki Minister of Finance.
• Masatsune Ogura
  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. He is credited for streamlining management for the company. In 1941 he was appointed Minister of finance for the brief period between...
  
  : Finance Minister (with Sumitomo Clan Links)
• Seihin Ikeda
  Seihin Ikeda
  was a Japanese businessman and central banker. He was the 14th Governor of the Bank of Japan .-Early life:Ikeda was born at Yonezawa in Yamagata Prefecture. He was educated at Keio University and Harvard University, class of 1895.-Career:...
  
  : Ex-Finance Minister, also political adviser (other figure of Zaibatsu
  Zaibatsu
  is a Japanese term referring to industrial and financial business conglomerates in the Empire of Japan, whose influence and size allowed for control over significant parts of the Japanese economy from the Meiji period until the end of World War II.-Terminology:...
  
   groups in government)

Government Finances and Economics Entities

'National Economic policies'

• Naoki Hoshino
  Naoki Hoshino
  was a bureaucrat and politician who served in the Taishō and early Shōwa period Japanese government, and as an official in the Empire of Manchukuo.-Biography:Hoshino was born in Yokohama, where his father was involved in the textile industry...
  
  : Political Adviser charged with composing new economic policies, and Chief of Economic Project Department and Chief of Cabinet Secretary
  Cabinet Secretary
  A Cabinet Secretary is almost always a senior official who provides services and advice to a Cabinet of Ministers. In many countries, the position can have considerably wider functions and powers, including general responsibility for the entire civil service...
  
  

'Planning Bureau in Cabinet Resources Board'

• Isamu Yokoyama: Chief of Planning Bureau in Cabinet Resources Board

'Member in Cabinet Research Board'

• Teiichi Suzuki
  Teiichi Suzuki
  was a Japanese army general who helped plan Japan's economy in World War II and later was imprisoned as a war criminal, died of heart failure. He was 100 years old.Mr...
  
  : 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
• Teiichi Suzuki
  Teiichi Suzuki
  was a Japanese army general who helped plan Japan's economy in World War II and later was imprisoned as a war criminal, died of heart failure. He was 100 years old.Mr...
  
  : President of the Cabinet Planning Board, Minister of State
  Minister of State
  Minister of State is a title borne by politicians or officials in certain countries governed under a parliamentary system. In some countries a "minister of state" is a junior minister, who is assigned to assist a specific cabinet minister...
  
   (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'

• Isamu Yokoyama: Chief of First Bureau, Cabinet Planning Board

'General Affairs Bureau, Cabinet Planning Board'

• Isamu Yokoyama: Chief of General Affairs Bureau, Cabinet Planning Board

'Secretary-General of the Asia Development Board'

• Teiichi Suzuki
  Teiichi Suzuki
  was a Japanese army general who helped plan Japan's economy in World War II and later was imprisoned as a war criminal, died of heart failure. He was 100 years old.Mr...
  
  : Secretary-General of the Asia Development Board

'Political Affairs Section of the Asia Development Board'

• Teiichi Suzuki
  Teiichi Suzuki
  was a Japanese army general who helped plan Japan's economy in World War II and later was imprisoned as a war criminal, died of heart failure. He was 100 years old.Mr...
  
  : first Chief of the Political Affairs Section of the Asia Development Board (China Affairs Board)
• Heisuke Yanagawa
  Heisuke Yanagawa
  - Notes :...
  
  : Chief of Political Affairs Section of the Asia Development Board

Commerce and Industry Minister

• Ichizō Kobayashi
  Ichizo Kobayashi
  , occasionally referred to by his pseudonym Itsuō , was a Japanese industrialist. He is best known as the founder of Hankyu Railway and Takarazuka Revue. He was a supporter of right-wing doctrine and represented Japanese capital in government.-Career:...
  
  : 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)
• Teijirō Toyoda
  Teijiro Toyoda
  , was a career naval officer who served as Minister for Foreign Affairs in 1941, and admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.- Early life :...
  
  : Commerce and Industry, Foreign Affairs Minister and Marine Minister, (with Mitsui
  Mitsui
  is one of the largest corporate conglomerates in Japan and one of the largest publicly traded companies in the world.-History:Founded by Mitsui Takatoshi , who was the fourth son of a shopkeeper in Matsusaka, in what is now today's Mie prefecture...
  
   Clan connection)
• Hideki Tōjō
  Hideki Tōjō
  Hideki Tōjō was a general of the Imperial Japanese Army , the leader of the Taisei Yokusankai, and the 40th Prime Minister of Japan during most of World War II, from 17 October 1941 to 22 July 1944...
  
  : Minister of Commerce and Industry
• Ikeda Shigeaki: Minister of Commerce and Industry
• Nobusuke Kishi
  Nobusuke Kishi
  was a Japanese politician and the 56th and 57th Prime Minister of Japan from February 25, 1957 to June 12, 1958 and from then to July 19, 1960. He was often called Shōwa no yōkai .- Early life :...
  
  : 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
  Haruji Matsue
  was a Japanese entrepreneur and the first person to manufacture the sugar cube in Japan. He donated money from his successful business to his home town of Aizuwakamatsu...
  
   Directing-Manager of Nanyo Kohatsu Kabushiki Kaisha
  Nanyo Kohatsu Kabushiki Kaisha
  The was a strategic development company which aimed to promote economic development and Japanese political interests in Micronesia and Southeast Asia. Founded in 1921 by Haruji Matsue to exploit the new mandated territory of Micronesia, Nanko received substantial support from the colonial...
  
   (South Seas Developing Company)

Minister of State (without portfolio)

• Teiichi Suzuki
  Teiichi Suzuki
  was a Japanese army general who helped plan Japan's economy in World War II and later was imprisoned as a war criminal, died of heart failure. He was 100 years old.Mr...
  
  : Minister of State
  Minister of State
  Minister of State is a title borne by politicians or officials in certain countries governed under a parliamentary system. In some countries a "minister of state" is a junior minister, who is assigned to assist a specific cabinet minister...
  
   (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
  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 daimyo of Kurume Domain...
  
  : Leader in Imperial Farmers Association, political adviser, later Minister of Agriculture

Communications Minister

• Shōzō Murata
  Shozo 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 graduate of the Tokyo Higher Commerce School . After graduation, he went to work with the Osaka Shosen Kaisha was a Japanese entrepreneur, cabinet...
  
  : Communications Minister (president of Osaka Shosen Kaisha Company, insider of Sumitomo Clan)
• Nobofumi Ito: Chief of Information Department
• Koh Ishii: Ex servant in Foreign Affairs Ministry; was Official Government spokesman

'Official Journalists'

• Teiichi Muto: Official Journalist in Asahi Shimbun
  Asahi Shimbun
  The is the second most circulated out of the five national newspapers in Japan. Its circulation, which was 7.96 million for its morning edition and 3.1 million for its evening edition as of June 2010, was second behind that of Yomiuri Shimbun...
  
   and Japan Times and Advertiser
• Shiro Mashida: Official journalist in Asahi Shimbun
  Asahi Shimbun
  The is the second most circulated out of the five national newspapers in Japan. Its circulation, which was 7.96 million for its morning edition and 3.1 million for its evening edition as of June 2010, was second behind that of Yomiuri Shimbun...
  
  
• Masanori Ito
  Masanori ito
  Masanori Ito is a Japanese journalist, author, and one of Japan's leading military commentators. He personally knew many of the Japanese naval commanders of the Second World War...
  
  : Official Journalist and Director in Japan Times and Mail
• Akinaru Jisawa: Official journalist in Chungai Shogyo

'Support writers and military experts'

• Yasuo Mishina: Military strategician
• Tadashi Saito: Army expert
• Otsughi Narita: Military thinker
• Kinoaki Matsuo
  Kinoaki Matsuo
  was a Foreign Affairs Officer and Navy Admiralty Liaison, Black Dragon Society member, writer, and Japanese Navy strategizer.In 1940 Kinoaki Matsuo published a book on how Japan planned to win a war with the United States....
  
  : Navy Theoretician

'Official war correspondent'

• Eiji Suzuki: a war correspondent for Yomiuri Shimbun
  Yomiuri Shimbun
  The is a Japanese newspaper published in Tokyo, Osaka, Fukuoka, and other major Japanese cities. It is one of the five national newspapers in Japan; the other four are the Asahi Shimbun, the Mainichi Shimbun, Nihon Keizai Shimbun, and the Sankei Shimbun...
  
   in wartimes

President of International Cultural Relations Society

• Aisuke Kabayama: President of International Cultural relations Society

Justice Minister

• Akira Kazami
  Akira Kazami
  Akira Kazami was a Japanese politician. From no great prominence, he was made secretary-General of the first cabinet of Prince Konoe, in 1937...
  
  : Justice Minister, Fumimaro Konoye partner, led the Keishicho (Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department)
• Heisuke Yanagawa
  Heisuke Yanagawa
  - Notes :...
  
  : Justice Minister; commander of the Keishicho (Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department), and leader in Taisei Yokusankai
  Taisei Yokusankai
  The was Japan's para-fascist organization created by Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe on October 12, 1940 to promote the goals of his Shintaisei movement...
  
   (Imperial Rule Assistance Association) group
• Hiranuma Kiichirō: Minister of Justice for sometimes

Home Affairs Minister

• Hiranuma Kiichirō: Prime Minister, with Japanese Navy
  Imperial Japanese Navy
  The Imperial Japanese Navy was the navy of the Empire of Japan from 1869 until 1947, when it was dissolved following Japan's constitutional renunciation of the use of force as a means of settling international disputes...
  
   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
  Hideki Tōjō
  Hideki Tōjō was a general of the Imperial Japanese Army , the leader of the Taisei Yokusankai, and the 40th Prime Minister of Japan during most of World War II, from 17 October 1941 to 22 July 1944...
  
  : Home Affairs Minister
• Kōichi Kido
  Koichi Kido
  Marquis served as Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal from 1940 to 1945, and was the closest advisor to Emperor Showa throughout World War II.Kido was the grandson of Kido Takayoshi, one of the leaders of the Meiji Restoration...
  
  : Home Affairs Minister
• Tsuneo Matsudaira: Home Affairs Minister

Diet members

• Kishi Nobusuke: was a Diet member who co-signed the declaration of war against the United States
• Chikao Fujisawa: Member of Diet
  Diet of Japan
  The is Japan's bicameral legislature. It is composed of a lower house, called the House of Representatives, and an upper house, called the House of Councillors. Both houses of the Diet are directly elected under a parallel voting system. In addition to passing laws, the Diet is formally...
  
   (Parliament), supporter of State Shintoism
• Kingoro Hashimoto
  Kingoro Hashimoto
  was a soldier in the Imperial Japanese Army and politician.-Early career:Hashimoto was born in Okayama City, and a graduate of the 23rd class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1911. He subsequently graduated from the Army Staff College in 1920. In April 1922, he was assigned to the Kwangtung...
  
  : Right-wing ideologist, also Imperial Youth Federation
  Imperial Youth Federation
  The , later known as the , was a nationalist youth organization in the Empire of Japan modeled after to Nazi Germany's Hitler Youth.-History:The Dai-Nippon Seinento was a youth organization founded by ultranationalist activist Colonel Kingoro Hashimoto on October 17, 1937, following Hashimoto's...
  
   and Imperial Youth Corps
  Imperial Youth Corps
  The was an elite para-military youth branch of the Taisei Yokusankai political party of wartime Empire of Japan established in January 1942, and based on the model of the German Sturmabteilung ....
  
   leader; in charge of young nationalist and militarists local indoctrination, member of House of Representatives of Japan
  House of Representatives of Japan
  The is the lower house of the Diet of Japan. The House of Councillors of Japan is the upper house.The House of Representatives has 480 members, elected for a four-year term. Of these, 180 members are elected from 11 multi-member constituencies by a party-list system of proportional representation,...
  
   and vice-president of Diet; instigator of the Second Sino-Japanese War
  Second Sino-Japanese War
  The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. From 1937 to 1941, China fought Japan with some economic help from Germany , the Soviet Union and the United States...
  
  .

Foreign Affairs Minister

• Nobuyuki Abe: Foreign Affair Minister
• Kijuro Shidehara
  Kijuro Shidehara
  Baron was a prominent pre–World War II Japanese diplomat and the 44th Prime Minister of Japan from 9 October 1945 to 22 May 1946. He was a leading proponent of pacifism in Japan before and after World War II, and was also the last Japanese prime minister who was a member of the kazoku...
  
   Foreign Affairs Minister
• Hideki Tōjō
  Hideki Tōjō
  Hideki Tōjō was a general of the Imperial Japanese Army , the leader of the Taisei Yokusankai, and the 40th Prime Minister of Japan during most of World War II, from 17 October 1941 to 22 July 1944...
  
  : concurrently Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Shigemitsu Mamoru: Foreign Minister
• Teijirō Toyoda
  Teijiro Toyoda
  , was a career naval officer who served as Minister for Foreign Affairs in 1941, and admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.- Early life :...
  
  : Foreign Minister
• Kenkichi Yoshizawa
  Kenkichi Yoshizawa
  was a diplomat in the Empire of Japan, serving as 46th Foreign Minister of Japan in 1932.-Biography:Yoshizawa was a native of what is now part of Joetsu city, Niigata prefecture. He was a graduate of the English literature department of Tokyo University and entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs...
  
  : Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Yosuke Matsuoka
  Yosuke Matsuoka
  was a diplomat and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Empire of Japan during the early stages of World War II. He is best known for his defiant speech at the League of Nations in 1933, ending Japan’s participation in that organization...
  
  : Foreign Affairs Minister
• Hachiro Arita
  Hachiro Arita
  was a Japanese politician and diplomat who served as the Minister for Foreign Affairs for three terms. He is believed to have originated the concept of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.- Biography :...
  
  : Foreign Affairs Minister, believer in the Axis Powers
  Axis Powers
  The Axis powers , also known as the Axis alliance, Axis nations, Axis countries, or just the Axis, was an alignment of great powers during the mid-20th century that fought World War II against the Allies. It began in 1936 with treaties of friendship between Germany and Italy and between Germany and...
  
   alliance
• Shigenori Tōgō
  Shigenori Togo
  was Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Empire of Japan at both the start and the end of the Japanese-American conflict during World War II...
  
  : Foreign Affairs Minister
• Kichisaburō Nomura
  Kichisaburō Nomura
  -External links:...
  
  : 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
• Kinoaki Matsuo
  Kinoaki Matsuo
  was a Foreign Affairs Officer and Navy Admiralty Liaison, Black Dragon Society member, writer, and Japanese Navy strategizer.In 1940 Kinoaki Matsuo published a book on how Japan planned to win a war with the United States....
  
  : Foreign Affairs officer, also intelligence unit when serving as liaison between the Japanese Foreign Office and the Admiralty; a Black Dragon Society
  Black Dragon Society
  The was a prominent paramilitary, ultranationalist right-wing group in Japan.-History:The Kokuryūkai was founded in 1901 by Uchida Ryohei, and was descended from the Genyōsha. Its name is derived from the Amur River, called Heilongjiang or "Black Dragon River" in Chinese , read as Kokuryū-kō in...
  
   member
• Mr.Yosano: Foreign Office high-ranking official;as liaison in IGHQ-Army/Navy Intelligence section.
• Tomohiko Ushiba: Foreign Office high-ranking official
• Toshikazu Kase
  Toshikazu Kase
  was a Japanese civil servant and career diplomat. During World War II he was a high-ranking Foreign Ministry official.Kase was born in Chiba, Japan. After passing his Foreign Service Examination in 1925 he left Tokyo Higher Commercial College and attended Amherst College and Harvard as a Research...
  
  : 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
  Ichizo Kobayashi
  , occasionally referred to by his pseudonym Itsuō , was a Japanese industrialist. He is best known as the founder of Hankyu Railway and Takarazuka Revue. He was a supporter of right-wing doctrine and represented Japanese capital in government.-Career:...
  
  : 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
  Hideo Iwakuro
  - Notes :...
  
  : Army attaché and Foreign Affairs officer, provided diplomatic support to the Washington mission
• Kaname Wakasugi: special aide to Nomura Mission to Washington
• Saburō Kurusu
  Saburo Kurusu
  was a Japanese career diplomat. He is remembered now as an envoy who tried to negotiate peace and understanding with the United States while Japan was secretly preparing the attack on Pearl Harbor....
  
  : special ambassador in diplomatic mission to Washington
• Kazuo Otani
  Kazuo Otani
  Kazuo Otani was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in World War II.-Biography:...
  
  : Special Military Attaché in Germany, official representative for buying armaments, liaison with the Nazis

Overseas ambassadors

• Nobuyuki Abe: Ambassador to Nanking-China
• Kichisaburō Nomura
  Kichisaburō Nomura
  -External links:...
  
  : Foreign Affairs Minister, also Japanese Ambassador in United States
• Nabeshima Naohiro
  Nabeshima Naohiro
  was a Japanese daimyo of the mid-Edo period, who ruled the Hasunoike Domain in Hizen Province .-References:...
  
  : a one-time Japanese ambassador to Italy
• Toshio Shiratoru: Foreign Affairs Minister; Japanese Ambassador to Italy, diplomatic advisor and firm supporter of the Axis Powers alliance
• Shigeru Yoshida
  Shigeru Yoshida
  , KCVO was a Japanese diplomat and politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 1946 to 1947 and from 1948 to 1954.-Early life:...
  
  : Japanese ambassador in Italy and England
• Hiroshi Ōshima
  Hiroshi Ōshima
  Baron was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army, Japanese ambassador to Nazi Germany before and during World War II — and unknowingly a major source of communications intelligence for the Allies. His role was perhaps best summed up by General George C...
  
  : Japanese Ambassador to Germany, also right-wing follower and military attaché working for alliance between Japan and Nazi Germany
  Nazi Germany
  Nazi Germany , also known as the Third Reich , but officially called German Reich from 1933 to 1943 and Greater German Reich from 26 June 1943 onward, is the name commonly used to refer to the state of Germany from 1933 to 1945, when it was a totalitarian dictatorship ruled by...
  
   (Anti-Comintern Pact
  Anti-Comintern Pact
  The Anti-Comintern Pact was an Anti-Communist pact concluded between Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan on November 25, 1936 and was directed against the Communist International ....
  
  , 1937; Tripartite Alliance, 1940)
• Renzo Sawada: Japanese Ambassador in France for some time
• Naotake Satō
  Naotake Sato
  was a Japanese diplomat and politician. He was born at Osaka. He graduated from the Tokyo Higher Commercial School in 1904, attended the consul course of the same institute, and quit studying there in 1905.- Home political career :He was an active politician and diplomat...
  
  : wartime Japanese Ambassador to the U.S.S.R.
• Kenkichi Yoshizawa
  Kenkichi Yoshizawa
  was a diplomat in the Empire of Japan, serving as 46th Foreign Minister of Japan in 1932.-Biography:Yoshizawa was a native of what is now part of Joetsu city, Niigata prefecture. He was a graduate of the English literature department of Tokyo University and entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs...
  
  : Official Japanese Ambassador in Peiping (until 1937) and French Indochina
  French Indochina
  French Indochina was part of the French colonial empire in southeast Asia. A federation of the three Vietnamese regions, Tonkin , Annam , and Cochinchina , as well as Cambodia, was formed in 1887....
  
   in 1940-41
• Yakichiro Suma: Japan's Ambassador in Spain
• Morito Morishima: Japanese Ambassador in Portugal
• Mamoru Shinozaki: Diplomat Officer, Japanese Embassy in British Malaya
  British Malaya
  British Malaya loosely described a set of states on the Malay Peninsula and the Island of Singapore that were brought under British control between the 18th and the 20th centuries...
  
  
• Jirō Minami
  Jiro Minami
  - Notes :...
  
  : Kwantung Army - concurrently Ambassador to Manchukuo
  Manchukuo
  Manchukuo or Manshū-koku was a puppet state in Manchuria and eastern Inner Mongolia, governed under a form of constitutional monarchy. The region was the historical homeland of the Manchus, who founded the Qing Empire in China...
  
  
• Taka Hishikari: Kwantung Army - Ambassador to Manchukuo
• Kumataro Honda: Japanese Ambassador in Nanjing
  Nanjing
  ' is the capital of Jiangsu province in China and has a prominent place in Chinese history and culture, having been the capital of China on several occasions...
  
   during Wang Jingwei
  Wang Jingwei
  Wang Jingwei , alternate name Wang Zhaoming, was a Chinese politician. He was initially known as a member of the left wing of the Kuomintang , but later became increasingly anti-Communist after his efforts to collaborate with the CCP ended in political failure...
  
   administration
• Ryonosuke Seita: Japanese Diplomatic Officer in Brisbane
  Brisbane
  Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...
  
  , Australia
• Gen Debuchi Special Envoy to diplomatic mission to Australia

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)
• Yutaka Ishizawa: Japanese Consul-General in Batavia
• Mr.Kita: Japanese Consul-General in Honolulu
• Chiune Sugihara
  Chiune Sugihara
  was a Japanese diplomat who served as Vice-Consul for the Japanese Empire in Lithuania. During World War II, he helped several thousand Jews leave the country by issuing transit visas to Jewish refugees so that they could travel to Japan. Most of the Jews who escaped were refugees from...
  
  : Japanese Consul-General in Kovno, Lithuania

Japanese Overseas Affairs Minister

• Koiso Kuniaki: Ministry of Greater East Asia (Japan)
• Kazuo Aoki
  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 , and was trained as a lawyer, graduating from the Law School of Tokyo Imperial...
  
  : Ministry of Greater East Asia (Japan)
• Shigenori Tōgō
  Shigenori Togo
  was Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Empire of Japan at both the start and the end of the Japanese-American conflict during World War II...
  
  : Minister for Colonization, later the Ministry of Greater East Asia (Japan)

Political Affairs Section of the Asia Development Board

• Teiichi Suzuki
  Teiichi Suzuki
  was a Japanese army general who helped plan Japan's economy in World War II and later was imprisoned as a war criminal, died of heart failure. He was 100 years old.Mr...
  
  : 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 under Japanese rule
  Korea was under Japanese rule as part of Japan's 35-year imperialist expansion . Japanese rule ended in 1945 shortly after the Japanese defeat in World War II....
  
   (Korea)
• Otozō Yamada: Governor-General of Kwantung Leased Territory
  Kwantung Leased Territory
  The Kwantung Leased Territory was a territory in the southern part of the Liaodong Peninsula in Inner Manchuria that existed from 1898 to 1945. It was one of the numerous territorial concessions that the Empire of China was compelled to award to foreign countries at the end of the 19th century...
  
  
• Toshio Otsu
  Toshio Otsu
  is a Japanese field hockey player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.In the 1936 tournament he played all three matches as back for the Japanese field hockey team, when they were eliminated after the group stage.-External links:**...
  
  : Governor-General of Karafuto (Sakhalin)
• Rikichi Andō
  Rikichi Ando
  -See also:* Taiwan under Japanese rule...
  
  : Governor-General of Taiwan
  Taiwan
  Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
  
   (Formosa)
• Boshirō Hosogaya
  Boshiro Hosogaya
  , was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.-Biography:Hosogaya was born to a farming family in Nozawa, Nagano prefecture in 1888. He graduated from the 36th class of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy in 1908. He was ranked 16th in a class of 191 cadets. As a midshipman, he...
  
  : Governor-General of South Pacific Mandate
  South Pacific Mandate
  The was the Japanese League of Nations mandate consisting of several groups of islands in the Pacific Ocean which came under the administration of Japan after the defeat of the German Empire in World War I.-Early history:Under the terms of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, after the start of World...
  
   (Micronesia)

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

• Captain Inuzuka Koreshige: 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 Protocols of the Elders of Zion
• Ishiguro Shiro: Foreign Ministry high-ranking official
• Setsuzo Kotsuji:Government Officer, the only Japanese in the world at the time to speak and read Hebrew.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Ishiwara Kanji
• Colonel Seishirō Itagaki
• Industrialist Yoshisuke Aikawa
  Yoshisuke Aikawa
  -External links:*...
  
  
• Japanese Consul in Kovno, Lithuania, Chiune Sugihara
  Chiune Sugihara
  was a Japanese diplomat who served as Vice-Consul for the Japanese Empire in Lithuania. During World War II, he helped several thousand Jews leave the country by issuing transit visas to Jewish refugees so that they could travel to Japan. Most of the Jews who escaped were refugees from...
  
  
• General Higuchi: Japanese Army contact with Manchu Jew anticommunist movement and its supporter

East Jew leader and Japanese supporter in Manchukuo

• Abraham Kaufman
  Abraham Kaufman
  Dr. Abraham Josevich Kaufman was a Russian-born medical doctor, community organizer and Zionist who helped protect some tens of thousands of Jews seeking safe-haven in East Asia from Nazi atrocities during World War II.As a consequence of his contacts with Japanese authorities during World War II...
  
  : 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 Fumimaro Konoye
• Foreign Minister Hachirō Arita
  Hachiro Arita
  was a Japanese politician and diplomat who served as the Minister for Foreign Affairs for three terms. He is believed to have originated the concept of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.- Biography :...
  
  
• Army Minister Seishirō Itagaki
• Naval Minister Yonai Mitsumasa
• Minister of Finance, Commerce, and Industry Ikeda Shigeaki

German Liaison in Jewish topics (until 1942)

• Colonel Josef Meisinger: chief of the Gestapo
  Gestapo
  The Gestapo was the official secret police of Nazi Germany. Beginning on 20 April 1934, it was under the administration of the SS leader Heinrich Himmler in his position as Chief of German Police...
  
  , 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

Other close military government collaborators

• Hiroshi Akita
• Seizo Arisue
• Isamu Chō
  Isamu Cho
  - Notes :...
  
  
• Gun Hashimoto
• Saburo Hayashi
• Masao Inaba
• Seijun Inada
• Akiho Ishii
• Susumu Nishiura
• Tokutaro Sakurai
• Kōtoku Satō
  Kotoku Sato
  was a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II.-Biography:Sato was born in Yamagata prefecture and graduated from the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1913 and the Army Staff College in 1921....
  
  
• Mitsuru Ushijima
  Mitsuru Ushijima
  - Notes :...
  
  
• Masao Watanabe
  Masao Watanabe
  was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.-Biography:Watanabe was the son of a former samurai retainer of the Kishiwada domain. His father was an elementary school teacher...
  
  
• Hiromichi Yahara
  Hiromichi Yahara
  Colonel Hiromichi Yahara was the senior staff officer in charge of operations of the 32nd Japanese Army at Okinawa during the American invasion of that island during World War II.- Defense of Okinawa :...
  
  
• Yasuyo Yamazaki

Ultra-nationalist supporters close to the government

• Prince Kan'in Kotohito
  Prince Kan'in Kotohito
  , wasthe sixth head of a cadet branch the Japanese imperial family, and a career army officer who served as Chief of the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff from 1931 to 1940.-Early years:...
  
  : ultra-nationalist and State Shintoism 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 Tenno direct orders to supervise operations along General Kesago Nakajima
  Kesago Nakajima
  - Notes :...
  
  , one of Operative Commanders in area; later returned to China in order to convey the Imperial Message concerning the cessation of hostilities.
• Prince Takeda Tsuneyoshi: 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 Manchukuo
  Manchukuo
  Manchukuo or Manshū-koku was a puppet state in Manchuria and eastern Inner Mongolia, governed under a form of constitutional monarchy. The region was the historical homeland of the Manchus, who founded the Qing Empire in China...
  
  , 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
  Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu
  was a scion of the Japanese imperial family and was a career naval officer who served as chief of staff of the Imperial Japanese Navy from 1932 to 1941.-Early life:...
  
  : Right-winger, representative of the Emperor at High Command Conferences, also Chief of Naval General Staff of the Imperial Navy forces
• Yoshio Kodama
  Yoshio Kodama
  was a prominent figure in the rise of organized crime in Japan. The most famous 'kuromaku', or behind-the-scenes power broker, of the 20th century, he was active in Japan's political arena and criminal underworld from the 1950s to the early 1970s....
  
  : Right-wing industrialist, yakuza
  Yakuza
  , also known as , are members of traditional organized crime syndicates in Japan. The Japanese police, and media by request of the police, call them bōryokudan , literally "violence group", while the yakuza call themselves "ninkyō dantai" , "chivalrous organizations". The yakuza are notoriously...
  
  chief and honorary Rear Admiral
  Rear Admiral
  Rear admiral is a naval commissioned officer rank above that of a commodore and captain, and below that of a vice admiral. It is generally regarded as the lowest of the "admiral" ranks, which are also sometimes referred to as "flag officers" or "flag ranks"...
  
  , supporter of right-wing government policies
• Ryoichi Sasakawa
  Ryoichi Sasakawa
  was a Japanese businessman, politician and philanthropist born in Minoh, Osaka. He was accused but acquitted of being a Class A war criminal after World War II, was a self-proclaimed fascist, kuromaku , and the founder of The Nippon Foundation...
  
  : Another right-wing follower, and fascist thinker
• Nobuyuki Abe: Ex-Prime Minister, Governor-General of Chosen and political advisor

Nobility members

• Count Aisuke Kabayama
• Count Hisaichi Terauchi
• Count Hiranuma Kiichirō
• Count Yoriyasu Arima
  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 daimyo of Kurume Domain...
  
  
• Viscount Kazumoto Machijiri
  Kazumoto Machijiri
  -External links:**...
  
  
• Viscount Kintomo Mushanokōji
• Baron Kōki Hirota
  Koki Hirota
  was a Japanese diplomat, politician and the 32nd Prime Minister of Japan from March 9, 1936 to February 2, 1937.-Early life:Hirota was born in what is now part of Chūō-ku, Fukuoka city, Fukuoka Prefecture. His father was a stonemason, and he was adopted into the Hirota family. After attending...
  
  
• Baron Tomoshige Samejima
  Tomoshige Samejima
  -Notes:...
  
  
• Baron Yoshitoshi Tokugawa
  Yoshitoshi Tokugawa
  -External links:* * * http://www.rcooper.0catch.com/etokugaw.htm- Notes :...
  
  
• Baron Mineo Ōsumi
  Mineo Osumi
  Baron was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy and served twice as Minister of the Navy of Japan during the volatile 1930s.-Early life:Ōsumi was born in Kōchi Prefecture, but grew up in Aichi Prefecture. He was a graduate of the 24th class of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy, where he...
  
  
• Baron Yoshimichi Hara
  Yoshimichi Hara
  Yoshimichi Hara 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 particular, he protested against the outbreak of the Pacific war at Gozen Kaigi...
  
  
• Baron Sadao Araki
  Sadao Araki
  Baron was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army before World War II. A charismatic leader and one of the principal nationalist right-wing political theorists in the late Japanese Empire, he was regarded as the leader of the radical faction within the politicized Japanese Army and served as...
  
  
• Baron Shigeru Honjō
  Shigeru Honjo
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• Baron Takeji Nara
  Takeji Nara
  Baron was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army.-Biography:Nara was born in what is now part of Kanuma city, Tochigi Prefecture to a farming family. He attended military preparatory schools as a youth, and graduated from the 11th class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1889 as a second...
  
  
• Baron Nobuyoshi Mutō
  Nobuyoshi Muto
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• Baron Takeichi Nishi
  Takeichi Nishi
  Colonel/Baron was a Japanese Imperial Army officer, equestrian show jumper, and Olympic Gold Medalist at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics. He was a tank unit commander at the Battle of Iwo Jima and was killed in action during the defense of the island....
  
  
• Marquis Kōichi Kido
  Koichi Kido
  Marquis served as Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal from 1940 to 1945, and was the closest advisor to Emperor Showa throughout World War II.Kido was the grandson of Kido Takayoshi, one of the leaders of the Meiji Restoration...
  
  
• Marquis Daigo Tadashige
  Daigo Tadashige
  Marquis was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.-Biography:Born in Chiyoda, Tokyo into a kuge family of court nobility related to the Fujiwara aristocracy, Daigo was a graduate of the Gakushuin Peers' school. He went on to graduate from the 40th class of the Imperial...
  
  
• Marquis Teruhisa Komatsu
  Teruhisa Komatsu
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• Marquis Okuma

Entrepreneurs

• Seihin Ikeda
  Seihin Ikeda
  was a Japanese businessman and central banker. He was the 14th Governor of the Bank of Japan .-Early life:Ikeda was born at Yonezawa in Yamagata Prefecture. He was educated at Keio University and Harvard University, class of 1895.-Career:...
  
  
• Ichizō Kobayashi
  Ichizo Kobayashi
  , occasionally referred to by his pseudonym Itsuō , was a Japanese industrialist. He is best known as the founder of Hankyu Railway and Takarazuka Revue. He was a supporter of right-wing doctrine and represented Japanese capital in government.-Career:...
  
  : (President of Tokyo Gasu Denky and Hitachi
  Hitachi, Ltd.
  is a Japanese multinational conglomerate headquartered in Marunouchi 1-chome, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. The company is the parent of the Hitachi Group as part of the larger DKB Group companies...
  
   group representative)
• Shōzō Murata
  Shozo 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 graduate of the Tokyo Higher Commerce School . After graduation, he went to work with the Osaka Shosen Kaisha was a Japanese entrepreneur, cabinet...
  
  : (President of Osaka Shosen Kaisha;as Sumitomo figure)
• Masatsune Ogura
  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. He is credited for streamlining management for the company. In 1941 he was appointed Minister of finance for the brief period between...
  
  : (Sumitomo representative)
• Teijirō Toyoda
  Teijiro Toyoda
  , was a career naval officer who served as Minister for Foreign Affairs in 1941, and admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.- Early life :...
  
  : (representative of the Japanese Navy
  Imperial Japanese Navy
  The Imperial Japanese Navy was the navy of the Empire of Japan from 1869 until 1947, when it was dissolved following Japan's constitutional renunciation of the use of force as a means of settling international disputes...
  
   and Mitsui
  Mitsui
  is one of the largest corporate conglomerates in Japan and one of the largest publicly traded companies in the world.-History:Founded by Mitsui Takatoshi , who was the fourth son of a shopkeeper in Matsusaka, in what is now today's Mie prefecture...
  
   group)
• Yoshisuke Aikawa
  Yoshisuke Aikawa
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  : (Representative of Nissan group)
• Fuji Fujisawa
• Noburu Ohtani: (President of N.Y.K. and Mitsubishi
  Mitsubishi
  The Mitsubishi Group , Mitsubishi Group of Companies, or Mitsubishi Companies is a Japanese multinational conglomerate company that consists of a range of autonomous businesses which share the Mitsubishi brand, trademark and legacy...
  
   figure)
• Fujiyama Raita:Private businessman with Japanese Navy
  Imperial Japanese Navy
  The Imperial Japanese Navy was the navy of the Empire of Japan from 1869 until 1947, when it was dissolved following Japan's constitutional renunciation of the use of force as a means of settling international disputes...
  
   links in South Pacific Mandate
• Kijirō Nambu
  Kijiro Nambu
  was a career officer in the Imperial Japanese Army and the founder of Nambu Arms Manufacturing Company, manufacturer of many of the firearms the Japanese military would use in World War II. A prolific small arms designer, he was sometimes called the "John Browning of Japan"...
  
  :he was founded and led Nambu Arms Manufacturing Company during wartime

Other supporters

• Teiichi Muto: Government journalist in Asahi Shinbun and Japan Time and Advertiser Official News
• Toshio Shiratoru: 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 fascist thinker, believer in government and military policies
• Akira Kazami
  Akira Kazami
  Akira Kazami was a Japanese politician. From no great prominence, he was made secretary-General of the first cabinet of Prince Konoe, in 1937...
  
  : Konoye
  Fumimaro Konoe
  Prince was a politician in the Empire of Japan who served as the 34th, 38th and 39th Prime Minister of Japan and founder/leader of the Taisei Yokusankai.- Early life :...
  
   political partidaire and Justice Minister
• Fumio Gotō: Konoye
  Fumimaro Konoe
  Prince was a politician in the Empire of Japan who served as the 34th, 38th and 39th Prime Minister of Japan and founder/leader of the Taisei Yokusankai.- Early life :...
  
   political partner; also another fascist ideologist, supporter of Militarists
• Naoki Hoshino
  Naoki Hoshino
  was a bureaucrat and politician who served in the Taishō and early Shōwa period Japanese government, and as an official in the Empire of Manchukuo.-Biography:Hoshino was born in Yokohama, where his father was involved in the textile industry...
  
  : Right-wing and Army follower charged to compose the economic policies of Manchukuo
  Manchukuo
  Manchukuo or Manshū-koku was a puppet state in Manchuria and eastern Inner Mongolia, governed under a form of constitutional monarchy. The region was the historical homeland of the Manchus, who founded the Qing Empire in China...
  
  and Japan.