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 1897
- Jinsaburo Mazaki: November 1897
1904 Class
- Tetsuzan Nagata: October 1904
1905 Class
- Michitarō Komatsubara: 1905
1906 Class
- Hiroshi Ōshima: 1906
1908 Class
- Naruhiko Higashikuni: 1908
1912 Class
- Torashirō Kawabe: May 1912
1915 Class
- Kitsuju Ayabe: May 1915
1921 Class
- Akira Mutō:- assigned to Military Academy, April 1921
1921 Class
- Takushiro Hattori: July 1922
1923 class
Graduates from the Japanese Army War College
The following were notable graduates of the Army War College:
1903 Class
- Hisaichi Terauchi: December 1903
1909 Class
- Otozō Yamada: December 1909
1910 Class
- Toshizō Nishio: graduated from War College, assigned to Military Affairs Bureau, November 1910
- Koiso Kuniaki: November 1910
- Gen Sugiyama: November 1910
- Shunroku Hata: graduated with top scholarly rank, November 1910
1911 Class
- Yoshijirō Umezu: November 1911
- Tetsuzan Nagata: November 1911
1912 Class
- Kenji Doihara: November 1912
1913 Class
- Yasuji Okamura: November 1913
1914 Class
- Rikichi Andō: December 1914
- Keisuke Fujie: November 1914
- Naruhiko Higashikuni: 1914
1915 Class
- Hiroshi Ōshima: 1915
- Hideki Tōjō: December 1915
- Masaharu Homma: December 1915
- Shōjirō Iida: December 1915
- Hitoshi Imamura: December 1915
- Masakazu Kawabe: 1915
1916 Class
- Seishirō Itagaki: November 1916
- Tomoyuki Yamashita: November 1916
- Shizuichi Tanaka: 1916
- Shigenori Kuroda: November 1916
- Heitarō Kimura: November 1916
1917 Class
- Renya Mutaguchi: November 1917
- Jun Ushiroku: November 1917
- Teiichi Suzuki: November 1917
- 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 1918
- Kiichiro Higuchi: November 1918
- Kanji Ishiwara: November 1918
1919 Class
- Hideyoshi Obata: December 1919
- Sōsaku Suzuki: November 1919
1920 Class
- Hidemitsu Nakano: November 1920
- Kingoro Hashimoto: 1920
- Akira Mutō: 1920
1921 Class
- Torashirō Kawabe: November 1921
- Harukichi Hyakutake:- December 1921
1922 Class
- Kiyotake Kawaguchi: November 1922
- Hatazō Adachi: November 1922
- 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 1923
- Hong Sa-ik: 1923
- 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 1925
1927 Class
- Takeshi Mori: December 1927
1929
- Hiromichi Yahara: returned as an instructor 1937-1940
1930 Class
- Takushiro Hattori: November 1930
- Masutaro Nakai: December 1930
1931 Class
- Masanobu Tsuji: 1931
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
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