List of graduates of the Japanese Imperial Military Academies explained

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

• Kazushige Ugaki

1891

1897 Class

• Sadao Araki

November

• Jinsaburo Mazaki

November

1904 Class

• Tetsuzan Nagata

October

1905 Class

• Michitarō Komatsubara

1906 Class

• Hiroshi Ōshima

1908 Class

• Naruhiko Higashikuni

1912 Class

• Torashirō Kawabe

May

1915 Class

• Kitsuju Ayabe

May

1921 Class

• Akira Mutō

assigned to Military Academy, April

1922 Class

• Takushiro Hattori

July

1923 class

• Hiromichi Yahara

Graduates from the Japanese Army War College

The following were notable graduates of the Army War College:

1903 Class

• Hisaichi Terauchi

December

1909 Class

• Otozō Yamada

December

1910 Class

• Toshizō Nishio

graduated from War College, assigned to Military Affairs Bureau, November

• Koiso Kuniaki

November

• Gen Sugiyama

November

• Shunroku Hata

graduated with top scholarly rank, November

1911 Class

• Yoshijirō Umezu

November

• Tetsuzan Nagata

November

1912 Class

• Kenji Doihara

November

1913 Class

• Yasuji Okamura

November

1914 Class

• Rikichi Andō

December

• Keisuke Fujie

November

• Naruhiko Higashikuni

1915 Class

• Hiroshi Ōshima
• Hideki Tōjō

December

• Masaharu Homma

December

• Shōjirō Iida

December

• Hitoshi Imamura

December

• Masakazu Kawabe

1916 Class

• Seishirō Itagaki

November

• Tomoyuki Yamashita

November

• Shizuichi Tanaka
• Shigenori Kuroda

November

• Heitarō Kimura

November

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

• Korechika Anami

November

• Kiichiro Higuchi

November

• Kanji Ishiwara

November

1919 Class

• Hideyoshi Obata

December

• Sōsaku Suzuki

November

1920 Class

• Hidemitsu Nakano

November

• Kingoro Hashimoto
• Akira Mutō

1921 Class

• Torashirō Kawabe

November

• Harukichi Hyakutake

December

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

• Shizuo Yokoyama

November

1927 Class

• Takeshi Mori

December

1929

• Hiromichi Yahara

returned as an instructor 1937-1940

1930 Class

• Takushiro Hattori

November

• Masutaro Nakai

December

1931 Class

• Masanobu Tsuji

1937 Class

• José Laurel III

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

• Kitsuju Ayabe

Equitation Student, October 1917

Graduates from Artillery and Engineering School

• Takeo Yasuda

July 1916

Graduates from the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy

• Kantarō Suzuki

1887

• Mitsumasa Yonai

1901

• Shigetarō Shimada

November 1904

Graduates from the Naval War College

• Kantarō Suzuki

1898

• Shigetarō Shimada

Class "A" Student, December 1913

• Mitsumasa Yonai

1913