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In the administration of Japan dominated by the Toseiha movement during World War II, the
civil central government of Japan was under the
management of some military men, and of some civilians:
Central
government
Supreme head of
government
- Emperor Hirohito:
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 cult image, and chief
of the Imperial Household
Ministry.
Soldiers parading before
emperor Shōwa on imperial stallion
Sirayuki
President of the Imperial
Council
Main article:
Gozen Kaigi
- Yoshimichi
Hara: President of the "Imperial Council" and "Imperial Throne
Council of War" also the Emperor's representative
Chairman of the
Imperial Advisory Council
Imperial
family members
The following were closely involved in the government:
Prince Yasuhito Chichibu in 1940
Vice Chairman of the
Councilors of Court
Prime
Ministers
- Senjuro Hayashi: Prime Minister,
Commander-in-Chief of Kwantung Army, Minister of War, member of
Imperial Privy Council amongst political adviser in Taisei
Yokusankai
- Koki Hirota: Prime Minister, also chief of
secret services in the Black Dragon Society
- Fumimaro
Konoe: Prime Minister; in his second term organized the Tonarigumi
organization, Nation Service Society official government syndicate,
and Taisei Yokusankai (Imperial Rule
Assistance Association) group amongst official expert of Jews
affairs
- Kiichiro Hiranuma: General in Imperial
Forces, Prime Minister, Home Affairs and Justice Minister, chief of
Keishicho Police forces, Minister without Portfolio, founder and
leader in Shintoist Rites Research Council amongst Last President
of Imperial Privy Council
- Nobuyuki Abe:
Imperial Army General, Prime Minister, member of Imperial Privy
Council, political adviser in militarist Genro grouping and last
Governor in Chosen
- Mitsumasa
Yonai:Imperial Navy Admiral, Prime Minister, Minister of
Marine, Chief of War Relief Association, expert in Jews topics
amongst Imperial and Supreme War Councillor
- Hideki Tojo: Prime Minister, Home Affairs
Minister, Education Minister, Trade Minister, War Minister, Head of
Kodoha Party; also Commander-in-Chief of Japanese Imperial Forces 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 defensive
organization
- Kantaro Suzuki: Imperial Navy Admiral,
Marine Minister, Military Councillor, Grand Chamberlain and Privy
Councilor, later Prime Minister
- Prince Higashikuni Naruhiko: Prime
Minister, Staff Officer, Army General Staff Headquarters, Military
Councilor, Chief of the Army Aeronautical Department, and
Commander-in-Chief of the Home Defense Headquarters
Chief
Cabinet Secretary
- Kenji Tomita: Chief Cabinet Secretary in Minister Konoe
period
Military Secretary to
Prime Minister
- Makoto Matsutani: Military Secretary to Prime Minister
Lord Keeper of the Privy
Seal
Imperial
Privy Council
President of Privy Council
Privy Councillors
Imperial
State Council
Imperial Aide to the Crown
Prince
Military
Aide-de-Camp
- Shigeru Hasunuma: Chief Aide-de-Camp to the Emperor
- Takeji Nara:
Chief Aide-de Camp to the Emperor
- Kazumoto Machijiri: Aide-de-Camp to
the Emperor
- Shunroku
Hata: Senior Aide-de-Camp to the Emperor
- Korechika
Anami: Aide-de-Camp to the Emperor
- Shigeru Honjo: 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: Aide-de-Camp to Prince Yasuhito Chichibu
- Takushiro Hattori:
Aide-de-Camp/Adjutant to Field Marshal (Prince) Nashimoto
- Shoichi Muranaka: Aide-de-camp of Commander Komatsubara during
Nomonhan Incident
Grand
Chamberlain
House
of Representatives
House of
Peers
Main article:
House of
PeersImperial Supreme
War Command (1937-1945)
Supreme Commander-in-Chief of Armed Imperial
Forces
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
Minister of War
Japanese Army Strategic Thought Group
Aide to War Minister, IGHQ
Staff officer IGHQ
Operations Bureau's Organization and Mobilization
Section, IGHQ
- Saburo Hayashi: Chief of Operations Bureau's Organization and
Mobilization Section, IGHQ
- Seijun Inada: Chief of Operations Bureau's Organization and
Mobilization Section, IGHQ
Russian Section of Intelligence Department,
IGHQ
- Saburo Hayashi: Chief of Russian Section of Intelligence
Department, IGHQ
Army Inner Liaison (Army Section), Military Affairs
Bureau, Army Ministry, IGHQ
- Masao Inaba:Army inner liaison (Army Section), Military Affairs
Bureau, Army Ministry, IGHQ
Imperial Japanese Army General Staff (Tokyo
HQ)
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
Japanese Navy Strategic Thinking Group
Imperial Japanese Navy
General Staff (Tokyo HQ)
Navy General Staff of Combined Fleet (Japan, later Truk
HQ)
Navy Tactical Commands
Navy-Army General Staff (IGHQ) Liaison
Officer
- Takushiro Hattori: Member (Army-Navy
high level liaison), Naval General Staff; Naval Staff Officer
(Operations) IGHQ; Section Chief (Operations), Army
General Staff, IGHQ; Army Section Member, Naval General Staff Naval
Staff Officer, IGHQ (Operations).
- Joichiro
Sanada: Chief, Second Section, (Army-Navy high level liaison)
Army General Staff Headquarters; Staff Officer, IGHQ (Navy
Section)
Inspectorate
General of Military Training IGHQ
- Ando Rikichi: Vice-Chief Inspectorate
General of Military Training
- Sadao Araki:
Inspector General of Military Training
- Shunroku
Hata: Inspector General of Artillery Training
- Haruyoshi Hyakutate: Inspector General of
Signal Training
- Hitoshi
Imamura: Deputy Chief, Inspectorate General of Military
Training
- Masatane
Kanda: Department Chief, Inspectorate General of Military
Training
- Masakazu
Kawabe: Section Member, Inspectorate General of Military
Training
- Heitaro Kimura: Artillery Department,
Office of Military Training
- Kenzo Kitano: Section Member, Inspectorate General of Military
Training
- Shigenori Kuroda: Office of Military Training
- Jinsaburo Mazaki: Section Chief, Office of
Military Training; also Inspector General of Military Training
- Hajime
Sugiyama: Inspector General of Military Training
- Akira Muto: 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
- Sosaku 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
- Otozo Yamada: Office of Cavalry Training
(Inspectorate General of Military Training)
- Prince Un Yi: Attached to
Inspectorate-General of Military Training
- Nobuyushi Muto: Inspector-General of
Military Training
- Yoshikazu Nishi: Inspector-General of Military Training
Inspectorate General of
Aviation IGHQ
Imperial
Supreme War Council (Senso-shi-do)
Chief Secretary of Supreme War Council
Supreme War Councilor
Military Councilors
"Imperial
Throne Council of War"
President of the Imperial Throne Council of
War
Imperial War Councilor
Home
Defence
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, Nagano Prefecture
Tokyo
metropolitan area
Tokyo
Divisional District
- Jo Iimura:
Commanding General, Tokyo Defense Army; concurrently Commanding
General, Tokyo Divisional District
Tokyo
Defense Command
- Yoshikazu Nishi: Commander Officer of Tokyo Defence
Command
Tokyo Garrison
Headquarters
Tokyo Bay Fortress
Detachment Officers
- Shihei Oba: Commanding General, Tokyo Bay Fortress,
concurrently Commanding General, Tokyo Bay Detachment
- Tokumatsu Shigeta: Staff Officer, Tokyo Bay Fortress
Detachment
Maizuru
Fortified Zone
Tsushima Fortress
Detachment
Officer assigned
to General Defense Command
Shinbu Group
(Fourteenth Area Army command)
- Shizuo
Yokoyama: Commanding General, Shinbu Group (Fourteenth Area
Army command)
Northeastern
Army District Headquarters (Japan Proper)
- Sinichi Tanaka: attached to Northeastern Army District
Headquarters (Japan Proper)
Northern District Army
Command
- Kiichiro
Higuchi: concurrently Commanding General, Northern District
Army Command
Western
Army District HQ
- Kanji Nishihara: attached to Western Army District
Headquarters
Western District Army
Command
- Shizuo Sakaguchi: attached to Western District Army
Command
Central District Army
Headquarters
Central District Army
Command
- Masakazu
Kawabe: concurrently Commanding General, Central District Army
Command
- See Home Defense Units WW2(Japan)
Chosen Army
District
For details of the Chosen Army:
- Organization of the Chosen Army of Japan
War
Ministries
Munitions
Minister
War Materiel Section, War
Ministry
- Hiroo Sato: Chief, War Materiel Section, War Ministry
Sagami Army
Arsenal
- Tasuku Okada: Chief, Sagami Army Arsenal
Tokyo Army
Arsenal
Army
Remount Department
Inspector General of
Chemical Warfare
- Kanji Nishihara: Inspector General of Chemical Warfare
- Kazumoto Machijiri: Inspector
General of Chemical Warfare
Officer in Inspectorate
General
- Shinichi Tanaka: Chief of Staff, Inspectorate General, LOC
Army Section,
Imperial General Headquarters
- Prince
Mikasa: Staff officer in the Army Section of the Imperial
General Headquarters
Oita PW Internment Camp
Staff
- Akira Muto: member of Oita PW Internment
Camp staff
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
Deputy
Minister of War
Vice-Minister of War
Secretary to the War
Minister
- Joichiro
Sanada: Secretary to War Minister; concurrently Adjutant in the
same Ministry; Aide to the War Minister; Staff Officer, Tokyo
Garrison Command
- Takushiro Hattori: Secretary to the
War Minister; Adjutant, War Ministry
- Joichiro
Sanada: Aide to War Minister, IGHQ
- Hiroo Sato: Adjutant to the War Minister
- Yoshio Kozuki: Secretary to the War Minister; Adjutant, War
Ministry
- Toshizo Nishio: Adjutant, War Ministry;
Secretary to the War Minister; Governor, Tokyo Metropolitan
area
- Yozo Miyama: Senior Adjutant, War Ministry
- Arao Okikatsu: Secretary to the War
Minister
Military Affairs
Bureau, War Ministry
- Kenryo Sato: Chief, Army Affairs Bureau
- Kitsuju
Ayabe: Member, Army Affairs Section
- Tetsuzan
Nagata: Chief, Military Affairs Bureau
- Hitoshi
Imamura: Chief, Military Affairs Bureau, War Ministry
- Kiyotake Kawaguchi: Member, Military
Affairs Bureau, War Ministry
- Heitaro Kimura: Chief, Military
Administration Bureau, War Ministry
- Masahiko Takeshita: Chief of the
Domestic affairs section of the Military Affairs Bureau
- Machijiri Kazumoto: Chief of Army Affairs
Section, Military Affairs Bureau, Ministry of War and Head of
Military Affairs Bureau, in same Ministry
- Takeji Nara:
Head of Military Affairs Bureau, Ministry of War
- Kenji
Hatanaka: Officer in Military Affairs Section
- Yoshio Kozuki: assigned to the Military Affairs Bureau
- Tadamichi Kuribayashi: Member,
Military Affairs Bureau
- Renya
Mutaguchi: Military Affairs Bureau, War Ministry
- Tetsuzan
Nagata: Chief, Military Affairs Bureau
- Hidemitsu Nakano: Member, Military Affairs Bureau, War
Ministry
- Kanji Nishihara: Section Member, Military Affairs Bureau
- Kengo Noda: Member, Military Affairs Bureau, War Ministry
- Hideyoshi
Obata: Member, Military Affairs Bureau, War Ministry
- Sanji Okido: Member, Military Affairs Bureau, War Ministry
- Joichiro
Sanada: Chief, Military Affairs Bureau
- Minoru
Sasaki: Military Affairs Bureau, War Ministry
- Hajime
Sugiyama: Chief, Military Affairs Bureau
- Sosaku Suzuki: Member, Military Affairs
Bureau
- Teiichi Suzuki: Member, Military Affairs Bureau, War
Ministry
- Sizuichi Tanaka: Member, Military Affairs Bureau
- Yuitsu Tsuchihashi: Member, Military Affairs Bureau, War
Ministry
- Tomoyuki Yamashita: Member and
Chief, Army Affairs Section, Military Affairs Bureau, War
Ministry
- Takeo Yasuda:
Chief, Defense Section, Military Affairs Bureau, War Ministry
- Isamu Yokoyama: Military Affairs Bureau, War Ministry
- Takeji Nara:
Head of Military Affairs Bureau, Ministry of War
- Isamu Cho: Attached to Military Affairs
Bureau, Ministry of War
Economic Mobilization Bureau in War Ministry and related
sections
- Shigenori Kuroda: Section Chief (Conscription), War
Ministry
- Tetsuzan
Nagata: Section Chief, Economic Mobilization Bureau
- Koiso Kuniaki: Chief, Materiel Mobilization
Bureau, War Ministry
- Heitaro Kimura: Section Chief, Economic
Mobilization Bureau, War Ministry
- Kanji Nishihara: attached to Army Technical Department
- Toshishiro
Obata: Chief, Operations Bureau, Army General Staff
- Joichiro
Sanada: Member, War Ministry Maintenance section; Chief, Army
Affairs Section, Military Affairs Bureau, War Ministry
- Minoru
Sasaki: Ordnance Bureau, War Ministry, Army Ordnance Main
Depot, Mechanized Department
- Sosaku 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: Chief, Assignments Section, Personnel Bureau, War
Ministry
- Tan Nukata: Chief, Personnel Bureau, War Ministry
- Sanji Okido: attached to Personnel Bureau, War Ministry
- Otozo Yamada: Chief, Personnel Bureau
Press Relations
Branch, Ministry of War
Army Field
Marshal
Provost
Marshal General
- Sadao Araki:
Provost Marshal General
- Fusataro Teshima: Provost Marshal General (LtGen)
- Shigeru Taiboku: Provost Marshal General
- Toranosuke Hashimoto: Provost Marshal General, later the
Japanese first priest in Shintoist central Shrine in Hsinking, led
the Cultural Japanese entity in Manchukuo, amongst operative leader
of Manchoukouan Intelligence services.
- 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
- Ando Rikishi: Vice-Chief Inspectorate
General of Military Training
- Sadao Araki:
Inspector General of Military Training
- Shunroku
Hata: Inspector General of Artillery Training
- Haruyoshi Hyakutate: Inspector General of
Signal Training
- Hitoshi
Imamura: Deputy Chief, Inspectorate General of Military
Training
- Masatane
Kanda: Department Chief, Inspectorate General of Military
Training
- Masakazu
Kawabe: Section Member, Inspectorate General of Military
Training
- Heitaro Kimura: Artillery Department,
Office of Military Training
- Kenzo Kitano: Section Member, Inspectorate General of Military
Training
- Shigenori Kuroda: Office of Military Training
- Jinsaburo Mazaki: Section Chief, Office of
Military Training; also Inspector General of Military Training
- Akira Muto: 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
- Sosaku 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
- Otozo Yamada: Office of Cavalry Training
(Inspectorate General of Military Training)
- Heisuke
Yanagawa: Inspector-General of Cavalry Training
Imperial Army-Navy military teaching and training services
units
See: Military
instructors and trainers of the Empire of Japan
Army Officers in Reserve
list
- Sadao Araki:
retired, March 1936, later enter in politic activities
- Jiro Minami: placed on reserve list, 1936,
later reacalled
- Nobuyuki Abe:
In 1936 put on reserve list with rank of general
- Ando Rikishi: transferred to reserve list,
January 1941; recalled to active duty
- Keisuke
Fujie: retired, April 1945; recalled to active duty
- Masaharu
Homma: transferred to First Reserve List, August 1943
- Shojiro Iida: retired, December 1944; later
recalled
- Kanji Ishihara: retired, 1938; recalled to
active duty, 1938-40
- Kiyotake Kawaguchi: unassigned list,
March 1943; transferred to first reserve list, April 1943
- Teiichi Suzuki: transferred to first reserve list
- Renya
Mutaguchi: retired, December 1944
- Toshizo Nishio: placed on reserve list,
1942
- Ichiro Shicida: retired, April 1945; recalled to active
duty
- Hideki Tojo: 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: Was entered on
Reserve list (1939), for later retirement to civilian life (1939).
He was called to operational service during 1944-45.
Army
Deputy Chief of Army
General Staff
- Jun Ushiroku:
Senior Deputy Chief of Army General Staff
- Hikosaburo Hata: Second Deputy Chief of Army General Staff
- Torashiro Kawabe: Deputy Chief of Army
General Staff
- Hajime Sujiyama: Deputy Chief of Army
General Staff
Chief of Army General
Staff
Bureau 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: 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
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. 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
- Haruyoshi Hyakutate: 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 Tojo, 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
- Torashiro Kawabe Staff Officer
(Operations/Intelligence), Kwantung Army
- Kingoro
Hashimoto Chief, Special Service Agency, Hailar, Kwantung
Army
- Haruyoshi Hyakutate Chief of the Special
Service Agency, Kwantung Army in Harbin
- Kuniaki
Koiso leader of Special Services Agency in Manchukuo
- Michitaro Komatsubara 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
- Arao Okikatsu: Section Chief (Railways and
Shipping), Army General Staff
Army Ordnance and
Army Shipping Department
- Yoshio Kozuki: Commanding General, Shipping Transportation
Headquarters
- Sosaku 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: Military Affairs Bureau and Economic Mobilization
Bureau
- Kenryo Sato: Chief of the Military Affairs Bureau, Government
Planning Board
- Ando Rikichi: Chief, Military
Administration Section, Military Administration Bureau
- Renya
Mutaguchi: Military Affairs Bureau
- Akiho Ishii: Chief, Military Affairs Section, War Ministry
- Arao Okikatsu: Chief, Army Affairs Section,
Military Affairs Bureau
- Susumu Nishiura: Chief, Army Affairs Section, War Ministry
- Tan Nukata: Chief, General Affairs Bureau
- Hitoshi
Imamura: Section Chief, Military Affairs Bureau
- Yoshio Kozuki: Military Affairs Bureau and Military
Administration Bureau; member Military Administration Bureau
- Kanji Nishihara: Section Member, Military Affairs Bureau;
Inspector General of Chemical Warfare
- Takeo Yasuda:
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
- Juro
Goto: 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:
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
Inspectorate General of Army Air Force
Air Armies General Commanders
- Masakazu
Kawabe: Commanding General, Air General Army, (took charge of
Army air operations in homeland, Chosen and Ryukyus)
- Takeo Yasuda:
Commanding General, First Air Army
- Torashiro Kawabe: Commanding General,
Second Air Army (Manchuria)
- Hideyoshi
Obata: Third Air Army General Commander
- Michio Sugawara: Third Air Army Commander and Sixth Air Army
Commander. Between March and May 1945, General Sugawara was engaged
in the Ten-Go Air Operation, under the Commander-in-Chief, Combined
Fleet
- 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, Chosen
- Prince Un Yi: 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: 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: Regimental Commander, 16th Air Regiment
- Yoshitoshi Tokugawa: Commanding
Officer 1st Air Regiment
Air Force Brigade Commanders
- Michio Sugawara: Brigade Commander, 2nd Air Brigade, Brigade
Commander, 3rd Air Brigade
Air Force Staff Officers
- Prince
Mikasa: Member of Staff of the Air General Army
- 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: Colonel (Air Force) --attached to Second Air Group
Headquarters
Commanding Officer in Air Battalion
Acting General Officer Commanding Army Aviation
Corps
- Yoshitoshi Tokugawa: Acting General
Officer Commanding Army Aviation Corps and General Officer
Commanding Army Aviation Corps
Air Force Commanders, Directors and instructors in Air
Schools
- Hideyoshi
Obata: Commandant, Akeno Army Air School, Commanding General,
same school (MajGen)
- Michio Sugawara: Commandant, Shimoshizu Army Air School and
Commandant, Military Air Academy and Air Training Army
Commander
- Kumaichi Teramoto: Director/Superintendent, Hamamatsu Army Air
School (MajGen)
- Rikishi Tsukada: Instructor, Hamamatsu Army Air School
- Yoshitoshi Tokugawa: 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:
Chief, Second Bureau, Army Aeronautical Department
Chief of 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:
Officer attached to Army Air Technical Laboratories (MajGen)
- Yoshitoshi Tokugawa: 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: 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)
Kwantung Army
Commanders (until 1945)
- Taka Hishikari: Commander in Chief Kwantung Army
- Nobuyushi Muto: Commander in Chief Kwantung
Army
- Kenkichi
Ueda: Commander of Kwantung Army
- Shigeru Honjo: Commander of Kwantung
Army
- Yoshitake Muraoka: Commander of Kwantung Army
- Senjuro Hayashi: Commander of Kwantung
Army, Prime Minister
- Yoshijirō Umezu: Commander of Kwantung
Army, War Vice Minister
- Jiro Minami: Commander of Kwantung Army;
concurrently Official Ambassador to Manchukuo
- Tomoyuki Yamashita: Commander of
Kwantung Army
- Otozo Yamada: Commander of Kwantung
Army
- Takuma Shimoyama: Kwantung Army Headquarters; Adviser,
Manchukuoan Military Administration Bureau
- Shizuo
Yokoyama: Commander of Railway Sector Headquarters, Kwantung
Army
- Atazo Adachi: Commander, Kwantung Army
Railroad Command
Kwantung
Government-General Administration
- Sadao Araki:
Officer (Major), Kwantung Government-General
- Koiso Kuniaki: Army Staff Officer, Kwantung
Government-General
- Jun Ushiroku:
Officer, assigned to Kwantung Government-General
- Saburo Ando: Commandant of Port Arthur
- H.Ukita: Commander of Ryojun Naval Guard District and
Station
For a complete structure see:
Structures in other
Japanese armies
See:
Police
Commander in Chief of
Kempeitai units
- Kesago
Nakajima: Since 1921-41 lead the Kempeitai operation inside
Japan and Asia during wartimes
- Kenzo Kitano: Military Police (Gendarmerie) Commander, China
Forces
- Hideki Tojo: Commanding General, Military
Police, Kwantung Army
- Sanji Okido: Commander, Military Police
- Takeshi Mori:
Deputy Chief, Military Police Headquarters
- Shizuichi
Tanaka: Chief, General Affairs Bureau; Military Police Forces
Headquarters; Commander, Kwantung Army Military Police Units;
Commander, Military Police Forces (LtGen)
- Keisuke
Fujie: Chief, General Affairs Bureau, Military Police;
Headquarters, Kwantung Army; Commander, Kwantung Army Military
Police
- Moto Inkai: General Officer Commanding Kempeitai unit,
Chosen
- Rokuro Iwasa: Commander in Chief Kempeitai Forces, Tokyo
Hq
- Tuyoji Hirano: Commanding Officer Kempeitai Section 25th Army,
Sumatra
Tokeitai police service
units
- Isoge Taro:- Operative leader of Joho Kyoko (Japanese naval
intelligence) and Tokeitai (naval military police)
Imperial
Guards unit
- Sadao Araki:
Company Commander, 1st Infantry Regiment, Imperial Guard Division,
during Russo-Japanese War
- Jinsaburo Mazaki: Regimental Commander, 1st
Infantry, Imperial Guard Division
- Makino Shiro: Battalion Commander, 4th Imperial Guard Infantry
Regiment
- Shojiro Iida: Regimental Commander, 4th
Infantry, Imperial Guard Division, General Officer Commanding 2nd
Imperial Guards Division
- Hisaichi
Terauchi: Regimental Commander, 3rd Imperial Guards(Colonel);
Chief of Staff, Imperial Guard Regiment; Chief of Staff, Imperial
Guard Division
- Korechika
Anami: Regimental Commander, 2nd Imperial Guards unit
- Fusataro Teshima: Imperial Guard Division Commander
- Kioji Tominaga: Infantry Regiment Commander, 2nd Imperial
Guards
- Akira Muto: 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: Commanding
General, 2nd Imperial Guard Depot Division (LtGen)
- Takeshi Mori:
Commanding General, 1st Imperial Guard Division, killed during
abortive coup d'état launched against him at Imperial Palace
- Major-General Imaye Chief of Staff 2nd Imperial Guards
Division, Malaya
- Hideo
Iwakuro: Commanding Officer 5th Imperial Guards Regiment,
Malaya
- Chikara Hiraoka: Chief Military Affairs Department 1st Imperial
Guards Division
- Yaezo Akashiba: General Officer Commanding 1st Imperial Guards
Division, Tokyo
- Prince Asaka Yasuhiko: General
Officer Commanding 1st Imperial Guards Division
- Susumu Harada: Commanding Officer 3rd Imperial Guards
Brigade
- Teiko Itada: General Officer Commanding Imperial Guards
Division, China
- Prince Un Yi: Commanding Officer
2nd Imperial Guards Brigade
- Machijiri Kazumoto: Commanding Officer
Imperial Guards Artillery Regiment
- Tsuneori Kaya: General Officer Commanding 2nd Imperial Guards
Depot Division
- Prince Kan'in Kotohito: General
Officer Commanding Imperial Guards Division
- Kazuo
Mizutani: Chief of Staff, First Imperial Guards Division in
Eastern District Army
Commander of
Keishicho Civil Police forces
Tokko
police service unit
- Kesago
Nakajima: 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
Ministries
War
Relief Association
Marine
Ministers
Vice-Marine Ministers
Private
Secretary to the Minister of the Navy
Navy
Admirals of the Fleet
Navy
Admirals
Navy Staff
College's Research Department
Third Department in Marine
Ministry
Bureau
of Naval Affairs
Bureau of
Naval Supply
Bureau of Naval
Accounting
Naval
Aviation Bureau
- Eikitchi Katagiri: Chief of Naval Aviation Bureau
- Kazume Kinsei: Officer of Naval Aviation Bureau. Created some
plans for bombing strikes against territory of the United States
Imperial Japanese Navy Air Force units
Fighter Unit (Carrier Akagi, 1941)
- Lieutenant Commander Shigeru Itaya
Tainan Air Corps (Denpasar Airfield, 1942)
Yokosuka Air Corps (Yokosuka Airfield,1943)
253rd Air Corps (Rabaul Airfield,1944)
303 Squadron, 203rd Air Corps (Kagoshima Airfield,
1945)
- Captain-Petty Officer Tanimizu
Navy General
Staff's Intelligence Division
- Mineichi
Koga: Chief of the Navy General Staff's Intelligence
Division
Japanese Navy Secret Service units
- Isoge Taro:- Operative leader of Joho Kyoko (Japanese naval
intelligence) and Tokeitai (naval military police)
- 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 in Southeast Asia 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
Plans Division Office of Operation Section in Naval General
Staff
- Sadatoshi Tomioka: Chief in Plans
Division Office of Operation Section in Naval General Staff;he was
proposer and support plans for Australian
Invasion.
Naval
Research Section
Technical
Council in Navy Technical Department
- Mitsumasa
Yonai: Member, Technical Council, Navy Technical Department,
Yokosuka Naval Station
Naval
Aviation Development Division in Munitions Ministry
President of
Japanese Naval Staff College
Navy Officers in Reserve
list
Navy
Chief of Naval General
Staff
Staff Officer of Naval
General Staff
Vice-Chief of Naval General
Staff
Naval
General Staff
Commander-in-Chief of
Combined Fleet
Vice-Commander of Combined
Fleet
Chief of Staff of Combined
Fleet
Commander of First Naval
Fleet
Commander of 2nd Naval
Fleet
Commander of 3rd Naval
Fleet
First
Naval Air Fleet
- Chuichi Nagumo: Commander of the First
Naval Air Fleet
- Kiyohide
Shima: Commander of the First Naval Air Fleet
- Kinpei Teraoka: Commander of the First Naval Air Fleet
- Takijiro Ohnishi: Commander of the First
Naval Air Fleet
Senior Staff
Officer of the First Naval Air Fleet
Second
Navy Air Fleet
Fifth Navy
Air Fleet
11th Navy
Air Fleet
26th Air
Flotilla
Fourth Naval
Fleet
Eighth Naval
Fleet
Third
Destroyer Flotilla
China Navy
Area Fleet
Carrier
Division Three
- Sueo Obayashi: Commander of CarDiv Three
- Tamon
Yamaguchi: Commander of 3rd CarDiv
1st
CarDiv
2nd Carrier
Unit
3rd
Destroyer Flotilla
2nd
Destroyer Group
10th
Destroyer Flotilla
10th
Destroyer Unit
22nd
Destroyer Division
6th
Destroyer Flotilla
2nd Destroyer
Unit
3rd Destroyer
Unit
4th
Destroyer Division
- K.Ariga: Commander of 4th Destroyer Division
4th
Destroyer Flotilla
- Tamotsu Takama: Commander of 4th Destroyer Flotilla
5th Cruiser
Division
18th
Cruiser Division
- Rear Admiral Marushige: Commander of 18th Cruiser Division
8th Cruiser
Division
- Hiroaki Abe:
Commander of 8th Cruiser Division
- Tadaichi Hara: Commander of 8th Cruiser Division
6th Cruiser
Division
4th Cruiser Division
(1st section)
5th
Cruiser Division
7th Cruiser
Division
1st
Battleship Division
3rd Battleship
Division (1st section)
3rd Submarine
Sqdn
5th Submarine
Sqdn
13th
Submarine Sqdn
- Takeharu Miyazaki: Commander of 13th Submarine Sqdn
First
Submarine Fleet
- Tatsunosuke Ariizumi: Commander of First Submarine Fleet
Sixth
Submarine Fleet
1st
Transport Group
- Kunizo Kanaoka: Commander of 1st Transport Group
2nd
Transport Group
- Shigoroku Nakayama: Commander of 2nd Transport Group
3rd
Transport Group
Seaplane
Tender Group
- Riutaro Fujita: Commander of Seaplane Tender Group
Minesweeper
Group
- Sadatomo Miyamoto: Commander of Minesweeper Group
First
Naval Striking Force
Officer
in Japanese Vessel Raiders Force(1941-42)
Sasebo 7th Special
Naval Landing Force
- Takeo Sugai: Commander of Sasebo 7th Special Naval Landing
Force
Chief of Staff of the
Maizuru Naval Base
First Naval
District
Kure and Yokosuka Naval
Districts
Sasebo
Naval District
Sasebo Naval
Yard
Yokosuka
Naval Base
Kure Naval
Base
Chinkai Naval Station
(Chosen)
Ryojun Naval Station
(Kwantung)
- H.Ukita: Vice-Admiral, commanded Ryojun Naval Station (Kwantung)
Central Government
Ministries
Kodoha ideological
advisers in government
Chief
of Cabinet Secretary
Welfare
Minister
- Koichi Kido: Education, Welfare and Home
Minister, as well as chief secretary to the Naidaijin and last
proper Naidaijin (Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal). He is
recognised as one of the principal supporters of General Tojo's
policies. During his period as Home Affairs Minister, he commanded
the Keiseicho (Tokyo Metropolitan Police
Department), and national civil police forces.
Minister
of Education
- Sadao Araki:
charge of Minister of Education; Company Commander, 1st Infantry
Regiment, Imperial Guard Division, during the Russo-Japanese War;
principal nationalist thinker and right-wing political adviser in
the country; War minister; founder of Kokuhonsha (Society for the Foundation of
the State) right-wing secret society
- Hideki Tojo: Minister of Education
- Koichi Kido: concurrently Minister of
Education
Imperial
Youth Federation/Imperial Youth Corps
- Kingoro
Hashimoto: Imperial Youth Federation and Imperial Youth Corps
Chief; in charge of young nationalist and militarists local
indoctrination, following official doctrines amongst Minister of
Education policies.
Minister of State
Affairs
Finance
Minister
Government Finances
and Economics Entities
'National Economic policies'
- Naoki
Hoshino: Political Adviser charged with composing new economic
policies, and Chief of Economic Project Department and Chief of Cabinet
Secretary
'Planning Bureau in Cabinet Resources
Board'
- Isamu Yokoyama: Chief of Planning Bureau in Cabinet Resources
Board
'Member in Cabinet Research Board'
- Teiichi Suzuki: 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: President of the Cabinet Planning Board, Minister of
State (Without Portfolio); also providing guidance for Wang Ching-wei's new regime at Nanking,
also Imperial nominee to the House of Peers
'First Bureau, Cabinet Planning Board'
- 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: Secretary-General of the Asia Development
Board
'Political Affairs Section of the Asia Development
Board'
- Teiichi Suzuki: first Chief of the Political Affairs Section of
the Asia Development Board (China Affairs Board)
- Heisuke
Yanagawa: Chief of Political Affairs Section of the Asia
Development Board
Commerce and Industry
Minister
- Ichizo Kobayashi: Commerce and Industry
Ministry (also chairman of Tokyo Gasu Denky);
ardent follower of Hitler´s doctrines
- Seizo Sakonji: Commerce and Industry Minister (Army figure in
government)
- Teijiro Toyoda: Commerce and Industry,
Foreign Affairs Minister and Marine Minister, (with Mitsui Clan connection)
- Hideki Tojo: Minister of Commerce and
Industry
- Ikeda Shigeaki: Minister of Commerce and Industry
- Nobusuke
Kishi: 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 Directing-Manager of Nanyo Kohatsu Kaisha (South Seas
Developing Company)
Minister of
Trade
Minister of State
(without portfolio)
- Teiichi Suzuki: Minister of State (Without portfolio)
in central government
- Kasiburo Ando: Minister of State without Portfolio
- Kiichiro Hiranuma: Minister of State
without Portfolio
- Toji Yasui: Minister of State without Portfolio
Minister
of Agriculture
Communications Minister
- Shozo Murata: 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 and Japan Times and
Advertiser
- Shiro Mashida: Official journalist in Asahi Shimbun
- Masanori Ito:
Official Journalist and Director in Japan Times and Mail
- Akinaru Jisawa: Official journalist in Chungai Shogyo
'Support writers and military experts'
- Yasuo Mishina: Military strategician
- Tadashi Saito: Army expert
- Otsughi Narita: Military thinker
- Kinoaki
Matsuo: Navy Theoretician
'Official war correspondent'
President
of International Cultural Relations Society
- Aisuke Kabayama: President of International Cultural relations
Society
Justice
Minister
Home
Affairs Minister
Diet
members
Foreign
Affairs
Foreign
Affairs Minister
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: Foreign Affairs officer, also intelligence unit when
serving as liaison between the Japanese Foreign Office and the
Admiralty; a Black Dragon Society member
- Mr.Yosano: Foreign Office high-ranking official;as liaison in
IGHQ-Army/Navy Intelligence section.
- Tomohiko Ushiba: Foreign Office high-ranking official
- Toshikazu
Kase: 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
- Ichizo Kobayashi: Industrialist and
Government supporter in Diplomatic Mission to Ducht Indies
(1940)
- Yatsuji Nagai: Army attache and Diplomatic in Matsuoka's
mission to Europe and Russia
- Hideo
Iwakuro: Army attache and Foreign Affairs officer, provided
diplomatic support to the Washington mission
- Kaname Wakasugi: special aide to Nomura Mission to
Washington
- Saburo Kurusu: special ambassador in
diplomatic mission to Washington
- Kazuo Otani:
Special Military Attache in Germany, official representative for buying
armaments, liaison with the Nazis
Overseas
ambassadors
Military attachés in
foreign service
See: Japanese
military attachés in foreign service
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: Japanese Consul-General in Kovno, Lithuania
Japanese Overseas Affairs
Minister
Political
Affairs Section of the Asia Development Board
- Teiichi Suzuki: 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)
Japanese
experts in Jewish Affairs (1938-42)
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 Itagaki Seishiro
- Industrialist Yoshisuke Aikawa
- Japanese Consul in Kovno, Lithuania, Chiune Sugihara
- General Higuchi: Japanese Army contact with Manchu Jew
anticommunist movement and its supporter
East Jew
leader and Japanese supporter in Manchukuo
- Abraham
Kaufman: 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'
German
Liaison in Jewish topics (until 1942)
- Colonel Josef Meisinger: chief of the Gestapo, was the Nazi liaison with Japanese military and
government on the Jewish question.
- Dr.Franz Joseph Spahn: leader-designee and political adviser of
the NSDAP
(Nazi) party in Japan in that period
Government
Supporters
Other close
military government collaborators
Ultra-nationalist
supporters close to the government
- Prince Kan'in Kotohito:
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, 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, with
orders to convey the Imperial Message concerning the cessation of
hostilities, but decided instead to take action against Soviet forces
in the area.
- Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu:
Right-winger, representative of the Emperor at High Command
Conferences, also Chief of Naval General Staff of the Imperial Navy
forces
- Yoshio
Kodama: Right-wing industrialist, yakuza chief and honorary Rear
Admiral, supporter of right-wing government policies
- Ryoichi
Sasakawa: Another right-wing follower, and fascist thinker
- Nobuyuki Abe:
Ex-Prime Minister, Governor-General of Chosen and political
advisor
Nobility members, entrepreneurs and other supporters of Government
and military establishment
Nobility
members
Entrepreneurs
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
- Shumei Okawa: Ultranationalist and fascist
thinker, believer in government and military policies
- Akira Kazami:
Konoye
political partidaire and Justice Minister
- Fumio Goto: Konoye political partner;
also another fascist ideologist, supporter of
Militarists
- Naoki
Hoshino: Right-wing and Army follower charged to compose the
economic policies of Manchukuo and Japan.
See also
- Japanese Central Chinese-Japanese War/World War II Government
Cabinet
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