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 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