List of graduates of the Japanese Imperial Military Academies

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

Graduates from the Imperial Japanese Army Academy (Military Academy)

1891 Class

1897 Class

1904 Class

1905 Class

1906 Class

1908 Class

1912 Class

1915 Class

1921 Class

1922 Class

1923 class

Graduates from the Japanese Army War College

The following were notable graduates of the Army War College:

1903 Class

1909 Class

1910 Class

1911 Class

1912 Class

1913 Class

1914 Class

1915 Class

1916 Class

1917 Class

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

1918 Class

1919 Class

1920 Class

1921 Class

1922 Class

  • Kiyotake Kawaguchi: November
  • Hatazō Adachi: November
  • Takushiro Hattori (Chief, Second Section operations, Army General Staff)
  • Susumu Nishiura (Chief, Army Affairs Section, War Ministry)
  • Akiho Ishii (Chief, Military Affairs Section, War Ministry)

1923 Class

  • Tadamichi Kuribayashi: November
  • Hong Sa-ik
  • Okikatsu Arao (Koko) (Chief, Shipping Section, Army General Staff; senior Staff Officer, Army Affairs Section, War Ministry; Chief, Third Section—Organization and Mobilization, Army General Staff)
  • Hiroo Sato (Chief, War Materiel Section, War Ministry; and an officer who, like Col Arao, had the confidence of War Minister Anami)
  • Yozo Miyama (Chief, Third Section-Organization and Mobilization, Army General Staffs post which he held before the author assumed it; and Senior Adjutant, War Ministry)
  • Makoto Matsutani (Chief, 20th Group-War Coordination, Army General Staff; Military Secretary to Prime Minister Suzuki)

1925 Class

1927 Class

1929

1930 Class

1931 Class

1944 Class

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

Graduates in Military Overseas Studies

  • Shunroku Hata: Military Student, Germany, March 1912
  • Hisaichi Terauchi: Military Student, Germany, February 1913
  • Yoshijirō Umezu: Military Student, Germany, April 1913
  • Masaharu Homma: Military Student, England, August 1918 (and served as observer with British forces in France)
  • Hitoshi Imamura: Military Student, England, April 1918; Assistant Military Attaché, England, October 1918
  • Naruhiko Higashikuni: Resident Officer, France, studying military tactics, April 1920
  • Tomoyuki Yamashita: Military Student. Germany, July 1921
  • Hideyoshi Obata: Military Student, England, April 1923; Major, March 1926
  • Minoru Sasaki: Military Student, U.S.S.R., September 1927; same for Poland and U.S.S.R., August 1928
  • Torashirō Kawabe: Resident Officer, Riga, Latvia (studying Soviet military affairs), January 1926-September 1928

Students in Army Cavalry School

Graduates from Artillery and Engineering School

Graduates from the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy

Graduates from the Naval War College

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