List of Japanese naval commanders

This is a list of Japanese naval commanders. Rank is assumed to be admiral unless stated otherwise.

See also: Imperial Japanese Navy admirals

Post-Restoration War

• [Gombei] Yamamoto Gonnohyōe (1852–1933)
• Ijuin Gorō (1852–1921)
• Kawamura Sumiyoshi [Jungi] (1836–1904)
• Nakamuta Kuranosuke (1837–1916)
• Ito Sukemaro (1834–1906)
• Enomoto Takeaki (1836–1908)

Sino-Japanese War

• Tsuboi Kōzō [Hara Kōzō] (1843–1898)
• Hidaka Sonojo (1848–1932)
• Itō Sukeyuki (1843–1914)
• Sakamoto Toshiatsu (1858–1941)
• Saigō Tsugumichi (1843–1902)

Russo-Japanese War

• Koichi Fuiji (1858–1926)
• Shimamura Hayao (1858–1923)
• Tōgō Heihachirō (1848–1934)
• Kamimura Hikonojō (1849–1916)
• Murakami Kakuichi (1862–1927)
• Kato Kanji (1870–1939)
• Akiyama Saneyuki (1868–1918)
• Dewa Shigetō (1856–1930)
• Kataoka Shichirō (1854–1920)
• Misu Sotarō (1855–1921)
• Uryū Sotokichi (1857–1937)
• Kabayama Sukenori (1837–1922)
• Matsumura Tatsuo (1868–1932)
• Nashiba Tokioki (1850–1923)
• Katō Tomosaburō (1861–1923)
• Shibayama Yahachi (1850–1924)
• Matsumoto Yawara (1860–c. 1925)

World War I^[1]

• Tetsutaro Sato (1886–1942)
• Yamashita Gentarō (1863–1931)
• Yamaya Tanin (1866–1940)
• Yashiro Rokurō (1860–1930)
• Mitsumasa Yonai (1880–1948)

World War II

• Hiroaki Abe (1889–1949)
• Masafumi Arima (1895–1944)
• Shigeru Fukudome (1891–1971)
• Boshirō Hosogaya (1888–1964)
• Matsuji Ijuin (1893–1944)
• Toshihira Inoguchi (1896–1944)
• Shigeyoshi Inoue (1889–1975)
• Seiichi Itō (1890–1945)
• Kakuji Kakuta (1890–1944)
• Mineichi Koga (1885–1944)
• Teruhisa Komatsu (1888–1970)
• Nobutake Kondō (1886–1953)
• Takeo Kurita (1889–1977)
• Kameto Kuroshima (1893–1965)
• Jinichi Kusaka (1889–1972)
• Ryūnosuke Kusaka (1892–1971)
• Gunichi Mikawa (1888–1981)
• Osami Nagano (1880–1947)
• Chūichi Nagumo (1886–1944)
• Shōji Nishimura (1889–1944)
• Tomoshige Samejima (1889–1969)
• Satō Tetsutarō (1866–1942)
• Shigetarō Shimada (1883–1976)
• Kōichi Shiozawa (1881–1943)
• Kantarō Suzuki (1868–1948)
• Sōkichi Takagi (1893–19??)
• Takeo Takagi (1892–1944)
• Ibō Takahashi (1888–1947)
• Takarabe Takeshi (1867–1949)
• Sadatoshi Tomioka (1897–1970)
• Soemu Toyoda (1885–1957)
• Matome Ugaki (1890–1945)
• Tamon Yamaguchi (1892–1942)
• Isoroku Yamamoto (1884–1943)