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Organization of the Kwantung Army of Japan.

Officers Attached to Kwantung Army Headquarters

Kwantung Army Railroad Service Commanders

  • Hatazo Adachi:-Commander, Kwantung Army Railroad Command
  • Shizuo Yokoyama:-Member, Railway Sector Headquarters, Kwantung Army, Commander, same Sector Headquarters

Officer Attached to Kwantung Government-General Service

Deputy Chief in Kwantung Army Staff

Chiefs in Kwantung Army Staff

Members in Kwantung Army Staff

Kwantung Army Army Commanders(regular Armies)

  • Kotoku Sato:-during Nomonhan Incident in 1939 he led the 2d Sector Unit, 8th Border Garrison Unit (Hailar).Then a Major General, he replaced the wounded commanding general of the 23d Infantry' Group on the Nomonhan battle front
  • Michitaro Komatsubara:-Chief of 23d Division,and Japanese Commander in Nomonhan Incident
  • Kitsuju Ayabe:-Chief of Staff, First Area Army (Manchuria), Kwantung Army, North China Detachment,Staff Officer, Third Army (Manchuria),
  • Jo Iimura:-Commanding General, Fifth Army (Manchuria),
  • Kenzo Kitano:-Hunchun Garrison Commander (Manchuria)
  • Seiichi Kita:-Commanding General, First Area Army (Manchuria)
  • Masutaro Nakai:-Commander assigned to Manchuria Independent Garrison Unit
  • Korechika Anami:-Second Area Army Commander (Tsitsihar, Manchuria),
  • Nobuyoshi Obata:-Chief of Staff, Forty-fourth Army (Manchuria)
  • Jun Ushiroku:-,Third Area Army Commander, Manchuria
  • Otozo Yamada:-12th Division Commander (Tungning, Manchuria), Commanding General, Third Army (Mutanchiang, Manchuria),
  • Noritsune Shimizu:-Lieutenant General,commander of Fifth Army(Mutanchiang)
  • Keisaku Murakami:- Commander in Third Army(Yenchi)
  • Mikio Uemura:-Chief in Fourth Army,(Tsitsihar)
  • Shojiro Iida:-Commander of Thirtieth Army(Hsinking)
  • Yoshio Hongo:-Fourty-Four Army,(Liaoyuan)
  • Kioji Tominaga:-139th Division Commander (organized in Manchuria)
  • Tomoyuki Yamashita:-Led First Area Army(with Hq in Mutanchiang
  • Yoshio Kozuki:-Commanded Second Army(Yenchi)
  • Shin Yoshida:-Led Mechanized Army with headquarters in Ssupingchieh

Commander of 2nd. Tank Group (Division)(Manchukuo)

Chief of Staff,Kwantung Defense Army

Kwantung Army Commander-in-Chief

Commander of Kempeitai units,Kwantung Army

  • Keisuke Fujie:-Chief, General Affairs Bureau, Military Police, Headquarters, Kwantung Army,Commander,Kwantung Army Military Police,
  • Shizuichi Tanaka:-Commander, Kwantung Army Military Police Units
  • Hideki Tojo:-Commanding General, Military Police, Kwantung Army,

Commander in Kwantung Special Intelligence Service

Commanders of Japanese Army Air Forces in Kwantung Army

Air Squadrons of Kwantung Army and Manchukuoan Air Force

Kwantung Army Air units

Combat Units

Training Units(also used in combat too)

Manchoukouan Air Units

Chief and Instructors in Kwantung Army Trainin Schools

  • Kenzo Kitano:---Commandant, Kungchuling Army School (Manchuria),
  • Kioji Tominaga:-Commandant,Kungchuling Army Tank School(Manchuria)

Japanese Official Ambassador to Manchukuo

  • Jiro Minami:-Kwantung Army-concurrently Ambassador to Manchukuo

Adviser in Manchukuoan Military Administration Bureau

  • Takuma Shimoyama:-Headquarters-Adviser, Manchukuoan Military Administration Bureau

Officers in Kwantung Frontier Guards detachment

  • N.Imoto:- Kwantung Armys Frontier Guard officer in service in Hiriyahari detachment Hq,,no far less of frontier point N°25 in upper lands of Usachi River,in front at Komissarsky,in Soviet Side,Manchu-Russian frontier
  • Captain Ohki:-Commander,Artillery Unit/15th Border Guard Unit in,Kotou Fortress located near Ussuri River in the Soviet-Manchurian border.
  • Ilasebe Riei:-Commander, 8th Border Guards unit
  • Kotoku Sato:-During Nomonhan Incident in 1939 he led the 2d Sector Unit,8th Border Garrison Unit (Hailar,Hsingan)

Commanders in Unit 371

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