Twenty-Ninth Army (Japan) Explained

Unit Name:Japanese Twenty-Ninth Army
Dates:January 6, 1944 - September 14, 1945　
Country:Empire of Japan
Branch:Imperial Japanese Army
Type:Infantry
Role:Corps
Garrison:Taiping, Malaya

The was an army of the Imperial Japanese Army occupying Malaya during the final days of World War II.

History

The Japanese 29th Army was initially raised on January 6, 1944, at Taiping, Perak in Japanese-occupied Malaya as a garrison force, and in anticipation of any Allied attempt to invade and retake the Malay Peninsula. The army's headquarters was at what is now the Peking Hotel, 2 Jalan Idris, also the site of the Kempeitai Headquarters.[1] [2]

Initially under command of the Southern Expeditionary Army Group, the IJA 29th Army was transferred to the Japanese Seventh Area Army on March 27, 1944. The Commanding Officer was Lieutenant General Teizo Ishiguro. His Chief of Staff was Major General Masukura Fujimura. When Fujimura was transferred to the 13th Area Army on its formation on 1 February 1945, Major General Naokazu Kawahara became Chief of Staff. Kawahara had been Commander of the 26th Mixed Brigade in Java.

As the war situation on the Pacific front grew increasingly desperate for Japan, the Imperial Japanese Army was unable to provide reinforcements and resupply to units south of the Philippines. After the surrender of Japan the 29th Army formally surrendered to Lieutenant-General Ouvry Roberts of the 34th Indian Corps at the Victoria Institution, Kuala Lumpur on 13 September 1945.[3] Neither the 29th Army nor the 34th Indian Corps had seen combat. The 29th Army was then demobilized.

List of Commanders

Name From To
Commanding OfficerLieutenant General Teizo Ishiguro7 January 1944 September 1945
Chief of StaffMajor General Masukura Fujimura7 January 1944 1 February 1945
Chief of StaffMajor General Naokazu Kawahara1 February 1945 14 September 1945

Final headquarters configuration at the end of the war

Commander: Ishiguro Teizo lieutenant general

Final units

94th Infantry Division raised in 1944 and under Lieutenant General Tsunamasa Shidei

Logistics troops

South eighth Army Hospital (Kuala Lumpur): Imamura SakuTakeshi surgeon Colonel

29th Army Depot
29th Army Field arsenal
29th Army Field automobile Factory
29th Army Field cargo Factory

Lieutenant General Teizo Ishiguro

Ishiguro (石黒貞蔵) was the former Commander of the 6th Army which had been based in Manchuria. In May 1944 the Army participated in Operation Ichi-Go On 1 July 1944 Ishiguro was appointed Commander of the newly formed 29th Army and based in Malaya in anticipation of an Allied attack.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Travel Photographer Asia | Peking Hotel: The Inevitable Predicament of Age . 2015-02-15 . 2016-11-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161104030656/http://travel-photographer.asia/peking-hotel%E2%80%A8-the-inevitable-predicament-of-age/ . dead .
  2. Of hooded men and torture, The Star, Malaysia, May 15, 2005
  3. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article42475773 Feeling of joy, Cairns Post, page 6, 27 September 1945

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