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Officers attached to Kwantung Army HQ

  • Hatazo Adachi :-Attached to HQ, Kwantung Army

  • Kenji Doihara :-Attached to HQ, Kwantung Army (MajGen)

  • Kiichiro Higuchi:-Attached to HQ, Kwantung Army (MajGen)

  • Haruyoshi Hyakutate:-Attached to HQ, Kwantung Army

  • Masatane Kanda:-Attached to Kwantung Army HQ, Officer, Kwantung Army HQ

  • Renya Mutaguchi:-Assigned to Kwantung Army HQ (MajGen)

  • Hidemitsu Nakano:-HQ, Kwantung Army

  • Takuma Shimoyama:-Attached to Kwantung Army

  • Jun Ushiroku:-Attached to Kwantung Army HQ

  • Isamu Yokoyama:-Attached to Kwantung Army HQ

  • Shizuo Yokoyama:-(Colonel), assigned to Kwantung Army HQ

  • Seichiro Itagaki:-Attached to same army (MajGen)



Kwantung Army Railroad Service Commanders

  • Hatazo Adachi :-Commander, Kwantung Army Railroad Command

  • Shizuo Yokoyama:-Member, Railway Sector HQ, Kwantung Army, Commander, same Sector HQ



Officers attached to Kwantung Government-General Service

  • Sadao Araki :-Officer, Kwantung Government-General

  • Koiso Kuniaki :-Army Staff Officer, Kwantung Government--

  • Jun Ushiroku:-Assigned to Kwantung Government-General



Deputy Chief of Kwantung Army Staff

  • Kitsuju Ayabe :-Deputy Chief of Staff, Kwantung Army (MajGen)

  • Hitoshi Imamura :-Deputy Chief of Staff, Kwantung Army

  • Seichiro Itagaki:-Deputy-Chief of Staff, same army

  • Yasuji Okamura:-Deputy Chief of Staff, Kwantung Army



Chiefs of Kwantung Army Staff

  • Jo Iimura:-Chief of Staff, Kwantung Army,

  • Kanji Ishihara:-Chief of Staff, Kwantung Army

  • Koiso Kuniaki :-General, Chief of Staff, Kwantung Army

  • Juzo Nishio:-Chief of Staff, Kwantung Army

  • Hideki Tojo :-Chief of Staff, Kwantung Army



Members of Kwantung Army Staff

  • Kitsuju Ayabe :-Staff Officer, Kwantung Army, Staff Officer, engaged in Chahar area operation as Staff Officer, Kwantung Army

  • Takushiro Hattori:-Staff Officer (Operations), Kwantung Army Headquarters (LtCol)

  • Kanji Ishihara:-Staff Officer, Kwantung Army,

  • Seichiro Itagaki:-Staff Officer, Kwantung Army

  • Torashiro Kawabe:-Staff Officer (Operations; Intelligence), Kwantung Army

  • Seiichi Kita:-Staff Officer, Kwantung Army

  • Takeshi Mori :-Staff Officer, Kwantung Army

  • Akira Muto:-staff officer, Kwantung Army

  • Sosaku Suzuki:-Staff Officer, Kwantung Army

  • Sinichi Tanaka:- Staff Officer, Kwantung Army

  • Kioji Tominaga:-Staff Officer, Kwantung Army,

  • Masanobu Tsuji:-Staff Officer (Operations), Kwantung Army (Major), during Nomonhan Incident

  • Rikishi Tsukada:-Staff Officer, Kwantung Army



Kwantung Army Commanders (regular Army)

  • Kotoku Sato :-during Nomonhan Incident in 1939 he led the 2nd Sector Unit, 8th Border Garrison Unit (Hailar). Then a Major General, he replaced the wounded commanding general of the 23d Infantry' Group on the Nomonhan battle front

  • Michitaro Komatsubara :-Chief of 23d Division, and Japanese Commander in Nomonhan Incident

  • Kitsuju Ayabe :-Chief of Staff, First Area Army (Manchuria), Kwantung Army, North China Detachment, Staff Officer, Third Army (Manchuria)

  • Jo Iimura:-Commanding General, Fifth Army (Manchuria)

  • Kenzo Kitano:-Hunchun Garrison Commander (Manchuria)

  • Seiichi Kita:-Commanding General, First Area Army (Manchuria)

  • Masutaro Nakai:-Commander assigned to Manchuria Independent Garrison Unit

  • Korechika Anami :-Second Area Army Commander (Tsitsihar, Manchuria)

  • Nobuyoshi Obata:-Chief of Staff, Forty-fourth Army (Manchuria)

  • Jun Ushiroku:-Third Area Army Commander, Manchuria

  • Otozo Yamada :-12th Division Commander (Tungning, Manchuria), Commanding General, Third Army (Mutanchiang, Manchuria)

  • Noritsune Shimizu:-Lieutenant General, commander of Fifth Army (Mutanchiang)

  • Keisaku Murakami:- Commander in Third Army (Yenchi)

  • Mikio Uemura:-Chief in Fourth Army (Tsitsihar)

  • Shojiro Iida:-Commander of Thirtieth Army (Hsinking)

  • Yoshio Hongo:-Forty-Four Army (Liaoyuan)

  • Kioji Tominaga:-139th Division Commander (organized in Manchuria)

  • Tomoyuki Yamashita :-Led First Area Army (with HQ in Mutanchiang)

  • Yoshio Kozuki:-Commanded Second Army (Yenchi)

  • Shin Yoshida:-Led Mechanized Army with HQ in Ssupingchieh



Commander of 2nd Tank Group (Division) (Manchukuo)

  • Tasuku Okada:-Commander, 2nd.Tank Group (Division) " Geki ", Manchukuo



Chief of Staff, Kwantung Defense Army

  • Nobuyoshi Obata:-Kwantung Army, Chief of Staff, Kwantung Defense Army

  • Tomoyuki Yamashita :-Commanding General, Kwantung Army Defense Army



Kwantung Army Commander-in-Chief

  • General Honjo:- Commander of Kwantung Army

  • General Muraoka:- Commander of Kwantung Army

  • Senjuro Hayashi :- Commander of Kwantung Army

  • Jiro Minami :-Commanding General, Kwantung Army

  • Yoshijiro Umezu :-Commanding General, Kwantung Army, Commander-in-Chief, same army

  • Otozo Yamada :-Commander-in-Chief, Kwantung Army



Commander of Kempeitai units, Kwantung Army

  • Keisuke Fujie:-Chief, General Affairs Bureau, Military Police, HQ, Kwantung Army, Commander, Kwantung Army Military Police

  • Shizuichi Tanaka :-Commander, Kwantung Army Military Police Units

  • Hideki Tojo :-Commanding General, Military Police, Kwantung Army



Commander in Kwantung Special Intelligence Service

  • Prince Takeda :-Occult Commander-in-Chief of Japanese Secret Services in Manchukuo also Imperial Family Liaison with Kwantung Army and Kempeitai Secret Services in land

  • Torashiro Kawabe:-Staff Officer (Operations; Intelligence), Kwantung Army

  • Kingoro Hashimoto :-Chief, Special Service Agency, Hailar, Kwantung Army

  • Michitaro Komatsubara :-Chief of the Special Service Agency at Harbin, Kwantung Army

  • Koiso Kuniaki :-concurrently Chief, Special Service Department, Kwantun Army

  • Nobuyoshi Obata:-Chief, Harbin Special Intelligence Agency, Kwantung Army



Commanders of the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service forces in the Kwantung Army

  • Torashiro Kawabe:-Commanding General, 7th Air Brigade (Manchuria), Commanding General, Second Air Army (Manchuria)

  • Captain Kamata:-commander of Kwantung Army Hane Air Unit



Air Squadrons of Kwantung Army and Manchukuoan Air Force


Kwantung Army Air units

  • 2nd Air Division

  • 2nd Air Brigade

  • 8th Air Brigade

  • 9th Air Brigade

  • 13th Air Brigade

  • 29th Air Brigade

  • 28th Independent Regiment



Combat Units

  • 15th Sentai

  • 104th Sentai

  • 25th Sentai

  • 81st Sentai

  • Hane Air Unit

  • 5th Sentai (with base in Hopei, fighting against Soviets probably in Chahar, Mengjiang area)



Training Units (also was operative used in combat)

  • 101st Sentai

  • 4th Sentai

  • 13th Sentai

  • 22nd Sentai

  • 23rd Sentai

  • 26th Sentai

  • 42th Sentai

  • 24th Sentai

  • 5th Sentai



Manchoukouan Air Units

  • 1st Air Group

  • 2nd Air Group

  • 3rd Air Group

  • Training Air Group



Chief and Instructors in Kwantung Army Training Schools

  • Kenzo Kitano:-Commandant, Kungchuling Army School (Manchuria)

  • Kioji Tominaga:-Commandant, Kungchuling Army Tank School (Manchuria)



Operative units in Kwantung Army Training Schools

  • 1st Tank Army (Main Tank instruction unit)

  • 23rd Tank Regiment (Practice Tank unit)

  • 24th Tank Regiment (Practice Tank unit)



Japanese Official Ambassador to Manchukuo

  • Jiro Minami :-Kwantung Army-concurrently Ambassador to Manchukuo



Adviser in Manchukuoan Military Administration Bureau

  • Takuma Shimoyama:-Headquarters-Adviser, Manchukuoan Military Administration Bureau



Officers in Kwantung Frontier Guards detachment

  • N.Imoto:- Kwantung Army Frontier Guard officer in service in Hiriyahari detachment HQ, no far less of frontier point N°25 in upper lands of Usachi River, in front at Komissarsky, in Soviet Side, Manchu-Russian frontier

  • Captain Ohki:-Commander, Artillery Unit/15th Border Guard Unit in Kotou Fortress located near Ussuri River in the Soviet-Manchurian border

  • Ilasebe Riei:-Commander, 8th Border Guards unit

  • Kotoku Sato :-During Nomonhan Incident in 1939 he led the 2nd Sector Unit, 8th Border Garrison Unit (Hailar, Hsingan)



Organization of Manchukuoan Fortresses

Refering to defensive fortifications in Russian-Manchu frontier line, this organization was led from Hsinking Fortress Command in the Manchoukoan capital, under the command of the Kwantung Army Commander.

  • Manchouli fortified district

  • Kotou fortified district

  • Fuyuan fortified district

  • Sungari fortified district and Japanese Army Sungari Flotilla

  • Hsinking fortified district/defense center

  • Tuntsiang defense center

  • Futsing fortified district with five permanent emplacements, a munitions depot and six mortar batteries

  • Sun’u fortified district with 20,000 Japanese officers and soldiers

  • Sansing fortified district



Kwantung Fortifications

These fortresses stayed in direct command of the Kwantung Army in the territory, also included Japanese Navy detachments in Dairen and Ryojun naval bases.

  • Port Arthur fortified district (now Liaoshun)

  • Dairen fortified district (now Dalian)

  • Ryojun fortified district (now Lushun)



Commanders and members of Unit 731



Commander and members of Unit 100

  • in Changchung

  • Kazuo Mitomo

  • Officer Matsui

  • Officer Hirazakura

  • Officer Kuwabara



Operative units in Kwangtung Theatre Army


Direct Reporting Units

  • 10th Infantry Division

  • 28th Infantry Division

  • 29th Infantry Division

  • 23rd Tank Regiment

  • Botanko Artillery Regiment

  • 3rd Signal Regiment

  • Kwangtung Air Brigade



3rd Army

  • 9th Infantry Division

  • 12th Infantry Division

  • 57th Infantry Division

  • 1st Tank Brigade

  • 7th Artillery Command

  • 5th Separate Engineer Regiment

  • 9th Separate Engineer Regiment

  • 27th Separate Engineer Regiment

  • 33rd Truck Brigade

  • 49th Truck Brigade

  • 66th Truck Brigade

  • 67th Truck Brigade



4th Army

  • 1st Infantry Division

  • 44th Truck Brigade

  • 68th Truck Brigade

  • 5th Army

  • 11th Infantry Division

  • 24th Infantry Division

  • 2nd Armored Brigade

  • 8th Artillery Brigade

  • 7th Separate Engineer Regiment

  • 22nd Separate Engineer Regiment

  • 23rd Separate Engineer Regiment

  • 69th Truck Regiment

  • 70th Truck Regiment



6th Army

  • 14th Infantry Division

  • 23rd Infantry Division

  • 4th Signal Regiment

  • 47th Truck Brigade

  • 20th Army

  • 8th Infantry Division

  • 25th Infantry Division

  • 5th Artillery Brigade

  • 34th Truck Brigade

  • 64th Truck Brigade



1st Armored Group (Division)

  • Nickname: "Taku" (Development)

    • Formed in December 1941 in Manchuria; Renamed a Division in June 1942.

  • 1st Tank Regiment

  • 3rd Tank Regiment

  • 5th Tank Regiment

  • 9th Tank Regiment



2nd Armored Group (Division)

  • Nickname: "Geki" (Hit)

    • Formed in December 1941 in Manchuria; Renamed a Division in June 1942.

  • 6th Tank Regiment

  • 7th Tank Regiment

  • 10th Tank Regiment

  • 11th Tank Regiment