A list of Imperial Army-Navy personnel with responsibility for military teaching and training of new recruits.

Commandants and Directors in Army War College

Army War College (Japan)

The ; Short form: of the Empire of Japan was founded in 1882 in Minato, Tokyo to modernize and Westernize the Imperial Japanese Army. Much of the empire's elite including prime ministers during the period of Japanese militarism were graduates of the college....

• 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...
  
  :- Commandant, War College,
• Yaezo Akashiba:- Director War College
• Shuichi Miyazaki:- Deputy Commandant, War College
• 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...
  
  :- Deputy Commandant, War College
• Jo Iimura
  Jo Iimura
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  :- Deputy Commandant in War College
• Tsunenori Kaya:- Commandant in War College

Commandments and Directors in the Imperial Japanese Army Academy

• 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...
  
  :- Commandant, Military Academy
• Kenzo Kitano:- Commandant, Military Academy
• Renya Mutaguchi
  Renya Mutaguchi
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  :- Commandant, Military Academy
• Akira Mutō
  Akira Muto
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  :- assigned Direction in Military Academy

Commander of the Naval War College

Naval War College (Japan)

The was the staff college of the Imperial Japanese Navy, responsible for training officers for command positions either on warships, or in staff roles....

• 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 Naval War College

President and Commander of the Naval War College

Naval War College (Japan)

The was the staff college of the Imperial Japanese Navy, responsible for training officers for command positions either on warships, or in staff roles....

• Nobutake Kondō:- President of the Japanese Naval War College
• Sokichi Takagi
  Sokichi Takagi
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  :- Commander of the Japanese Naval War College

Commandants and Directors in Army and Navy academies and school

• Yoshikazu Nishi:- Commandant of the Field Artillery School
• Masatake Yasuoka:- Commandant of the Army Tank School
• Hitoshi Imamura
  Hitoshi Imamura
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  :- Commandant, Narashino Army School
• Jirō Minami
  Jiro Minami
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  :- direction of Cavalry School
• Kyoji Tominaga:- Commandant, Kungchuling Army Tank School (Manchuria)
• Michio Sugawara:- Commandant, Shimoshizu Army Air School, Commandant, Military Air Academy, Air Training Army Commander
• Rikichi Tsukada
  Rikichi Tsukada
  was a Lieutenant General of the Imperial Japanese Army.- Early career :Tsukada was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Japanese Imperial Army in 1916. In 1924 he graduated from the War College....
  
  :- Commanding General, Airborne Operations Training Unit
• Jisaburo 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:...
  
  :- President of the Japanese Naval Academy
• 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, Imperial Navy Submarine School
• Kumaichi Teramoto:- Director, Hamamatsu Army Air School
• Heisuke Yanagawa
  Heisuke Yanagawa
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  :- Commandant of the Army Cavalry School
• Yoshitoshi Tokugawa
  Yoshitoshi Tokugawa
  -External links:* * * http://www.rcooper.0catch.com/etokugaw.htm- Notes :...
  
  :- Commandant of Akeno Army Aviation School and Tokorozawa Army Aviation School

Military Superintendents

• Rikichi Andō
  Rikichi Ando
  -See also:* Taiwan under Japanese rule...
  
  :- Superintendent, Toyama Army School
• Harukichi Hyakutake:- attached/Superintendent to Army Signal School, Superintendent, Hiroshima Military Prep School
• Korechika Anami:- Superintendent, Tokyo Military Preparatory School
• Mitsuo Nakazawa:- Superintendent, Military Preparatory Academy
• Tasuku Okada:- Superintendent, Army Tank School
• Ichiro Shichida:- Superintendent, Army School of Science, Superintendent, Toyama Army School
• Sizuichi Tanaka:- Superintendent, War College
• Kumaichi Teramoto:- Superintendent, Hamamatsu Army Air School
• Toshimichi Uemura:- Superintendent, Tokyo Army Preparatory School
• Otozō Yamada:- Superintendent, Military Academy

Military professors and instructors

• Heisuke Yanagawa
  Heisuke Yanagawa
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  :- Instructor at the War College
• Tsunenori Kaya:- Instructor at the War College
• Yasuhiko Asaka:- Instructor at the Military Academy
• Un Yi:- Instructor at Military Staff College
• Haruhito Kanin:- Instructor Attached to Chiba Army Tank School and War College
• Kenzo Kitano:- Commanding Officer, Senior-Course Cadet Unit
• Keisuke Fujie
  Keisuke Fujie
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  :- Instructor (Military Academy) also Director, Field Artillery School, Superintendent, War College
• 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...
  
  :- Instructor, Infantry School
• 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:...
  
  :- Instructor, War College
• Shōjirō Iida
  Shojiro Iida
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  :- Instructor, Infantry School
• Tomitaro Horii
  Tomitaro Horii
  was a major general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.-Biography:Born in Hyōgo Prefecture, Horii became an infantry officer following his graduation from the 23rd class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1911....
  
  :- attached to 3rd Infantry Regiment-Training Officer, Waseda University
• Kanji Ishiwara:- Instructor, War College
• Tadasu Kataoka:- Instructor, Army Cavalry School
• 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 Officer, Training Regiment, infantry School
• Torashirō Kawabe
  Torashiro Kawabe
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  :- Instructor (Tactics), War College, Hamamatsu Army Flying School
• Kiyotake Kawaguchi
  Kiyotake Kawaguchi
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  :- Instructor, Army Heavy Artillery School
• Heitarō Kimura:- Instructor, War College, Artillery Department, Office of Military Training
• Seiichi Kita:- Instructor, War College
• Koiso Kuniaki:- Instructor, Military Academy
• Shiro Makino:- Instructor, Military Academy also Senior Instructor/Superintendent, Military Preparatory Academy
• Jinsaburo Mazaki:- Instructor, Training Unit Military Academy
• Shuichi Miyazaki:- Instructor Cadet Unit, Military Academy Preparatory School, Military Instructor, War College, Deputy Commandant, War College
• 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...
  
  :- Instructor, Cavalry School; Instructor, War College
• Toshizō Nishio
  Toshizo Nishio
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  :- Instructor, War College, Section Chief, Office of Military Training
• Fukutaro Nishiyama:- Instructor, Military Academy
• Tetsuzan Nagata
  Tetsuzan Nagata
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  :- Office of Military Training
• Masutaro Nakai
  Masutaro Nakai
  Lieutenant General Masutaro Nakai was a senior officer of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. He led a brigade-sized formation, known as the Nakai Detachment, which had been detached from the 20th Division during the Finisterre Range campaign. He was later placed in command on the 20th...
  
  :- Instructor, Military Academy (tactics)
• Mitsuo Nakazawa:- Instructor, War College, Superintendent, Military Preparatory Academy
• Kanji Nishihara:- concurrently Instructor, War College
• Kengo Noda:- Instructor, Infantry School, Commanding Officer, Training Unit, Infantry School
• Shihei Oba:- Commanding Officer, Infantry Unit, Toyohashi Reserve Officer School
• 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...
  
  :- Instructor, War College, Commandant, Akeno Army Air School
• Sanji Okido:- Instructor, War College, November
• Ichiro Shichida:- Instructor, Infantry School, Superintendent, Military Preparatory Academy, Director, Military Academy, Superintendent, Army School of Science, Superintendent, Toyama Army School
• Takuma Shimoyama:- Instructor, Military Academy, Office of Military Training, Instructor, War College
• Hisakazu Tanaka:- Instructor, War College
• Rikichi Tsukada
  Rikichi Tsukada
  was a Lieutenant General of the Imperial Japanese Army.- Early career :Tsukada was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Japanese Imperial Army in 1916. In 1924 he graduated from the War College....
  
  :- Attached, Training Unit, Shimoshizu Army Air School, Instructor, Hamamatsu Army Air School and Commanding General, Airborne Operations Training Unit
• Jun Ushiroku
  Jun Ushiroku
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  :- attached to Training Unit, Military Academy
• Otozō Yamada:- Instructor, War College, Instructor, Cavalry School Chief, Army Signal School, Superintendent, Military Academy
• 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...
  
  :- Instructor, Artillery and Engineering School, Member, Research Branch, Army Signal School, LtCol, May Member, Research Branch, Army Signal School
• Hitoshi Asano:- Instructor, Akeno and Narashino Air base
• Ichiki Kioyonao:- Instructor, Army Infantry School
• Sokichi Takagi
  Sokichi Takagi
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  :- instructor of the Naval Staff college
• 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...
  
  :- Instructor, Naval War College, Commandant, Imperial Navy Submarine School
• Nobuo Fujita
  Nobuo Fujita
  was a Warrant Flying Officer of the Imperial Japanese Navy who flew a floatplane from the long-range submarine aircraft carrier , and conducted the only wartime aircraft-dropped bombing on the continental United States of America, which became known as the Lookout Air Raid...
  
  :- Instructor Japanese Navy Air force
• 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 ....
  
  :- Instructor, Ohmura Navy Airbase
• 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...
  
  :- Instructor, Yokosuka Navy Airfield
• 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....
  
  :- Instructor, Yokosuka and Tokushima Navy Airfield

Technicians, researchers and experts in military sciences

• 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....
  
  :- General Staff Headquarters-Army Tank School, Research Section, Army Engineer School, Research Section
• Ichiki Kioyonao:- Member, Research Branch, Toyama Army School, Instructor, Army Infantry School
• Jo Iimura
  Jo Iimura
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  :- Instructor and Deputy Commandant in War College, Member, Research Staff, War College; Chief, Total Warfare Research Institute, he made extensive trips throughout East Asia, to collect instructional materials and operative practices.
• Kanji Nishihara:- Director, Research Department, Infantry School Deputy Commandant, Narashino Army School, concurrently Instructor, War College
• 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, Research Division, War College
• 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, Research Branch, Army Signal School
• Michio Sugawara:- Major (Air Force); Section Chief, Army Aeronautical Department
• Kumaichi Teramoto:- LtCol (Air Force), Officer attached; later Member in 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 and Director of Technical Training Department, Tokorozawa Army Aviation School