Kwantung Army (Japanese Army)

Kwantung Army (関東軍 Kanto Gun)

Assignment

Commander / Commander-in-chief

no	date of appointment	rank	name	class	previous job	next job	note
1	18 Oct 1905	General	Oshima Yoshimasa		Cdr, 3rd Division	Governor of Kwantung	Governor General of Kwantung
1	1 Sep 1906	General	Oshima Yoshimasa		Governor General of Kwantung	Military Councillor	Governor of Kwantung
2	26 Apr 1912	Lt General	Fukushima Yasumasa		Vice Chief of General Staffs	deactivated
3	15 Sep 1914	Lt General	Nakamura Satoru		Governor of Tokyo Security	Military Councillor	25 Jan 1915 General
4	31 Jul 1917	Lt General	Nakamura Yujiro		Deactivated	Reserve	Regular while appointed
1	12 Apr 1919	Lt General	Tachibana Koichiro	6th class, Cadet	Cdr, 4th Division	Cdr, Vladivostok Exp Army	Commander, Kwantung Army 16 Aug 1920 General
2	6 Jan 1921	Lt General	Kawai Misao	8th class, Cadet	Cdr, 1st Division	Military Councillor	9 Apr 1921 General
3	10 May 1922	General	Ono Minobu	10th class, Cadet	Vice Minister of Army	Military Councillor
4	10 Oct 1923	Lt General	Shirakawa Yoshinori	1st class, MA	Vice Minister of Army	Military Councillor	28 Mar 1925 General
5	28 Jul 1926	General	Muto Nobuyoshi	3rd class, MA	Military Councillor	Inspector General
6	26 Aug 1927	Lt General	Muraoka Chotaro	5th class, MA	Cdr, 4th Division	Reserve
7	1 Jul 1929	Lt General	Hata Eitaro	7th class, MA	Cdr, 1st Division	died	1 May 1930 General, 31 May 1930 died
8	3 Jun 1930	General	Hishikari Takashi	5th class, MA	Cdr, Taiwan Army	Military Councillor
9	1 Aug 1931	Lt General	Honjo Shigeru	9th class, MA	Cdr, 10th Division	Military Councillor
10	8 Aug 1932	General	Muto Nobuyoshi	3rd class, MA	Military Councillor	died	3 Mar 1933 Field Marshal, 27 Jul 1933 died
11	29 Jul 1933	General	Hishikari Takashi	5th class, MA	Military Councillor	Military Councillor
12	10 Dec 1934	General	Minami Jiro	6th class, MA	Military Councillor	Att, General Staffs
13	6 Mar 1936	General	Ueda Kenkichi	10th class, MA	Military Councillor	Att, General Staffs
14	7 Sep 1939	Lt General	Umezu Yoshijiro	15th class, MA	Cdr, 1st Army	CinC, Kwantung Army	1 Aug 1940 General
1	1 Oct 1942	General	Umezu Yoshijiro	15th class, MA	Cdr, Kwantung Army	Chief of General Staffs	Commander-in-chief, Kwantung Army
2	18 Jul 1944	General	Yamada Otozo	14th class, MA	Inspector General		disbanded after Japanese surrender

Chief of Staff

no	date of appointment	rank	name	class	previous job	next job	note
	31 Oct 1905		Ochiai Toyosaburo	3rd class, Cadet
	27 Nov 1906	Maj General	Kamio Mitsuomi		Cdr, Chinese Empire Resident Army	Cdr, 1st Grd Inf Brigade
	13 Nov 1907		Hoshino Kingo	5th class, Cadet
	28 Sept 1912		Shiba Katsusaburo	7th class, Cadet
	26 Dec 1912	Maj General	Fukuda Masataro	9th class, Cadet	Cdr, 24th Inf Brigade	Chief, 2nd Bu, General Staffs
	11 May 1914		Nishikawa Torajiro	11th class, Cadet
	18 Aug 1916		Takayama Kimimichi	11th class, Cadet
	24 Jul 1918		Hamaomote Matasuke	4th class, MA
	11 Mar 1921		Fukubara Yoshiya	5th class, MA
	6 Aug 1923		Kawada Akiharu	10th class, MA
	2 Dec 1925		Saito Hisashi	10th class, MA
	10 Aug 1928		Miyake Mitsuharu	13th class, MA
	11 Apr 1932		Hashimoto Toranosuke	14th class, MA
	8 Aug 1932	Lt General	Koiso Kuniaki	12th class, MA	Vice Minister of Army	Cdr, 5th Division
	5 Mar 1934	Lt General	Nishio Toshizo	14th class, MA	Chief, 4th Bu, General Staffs	Vice Chief of General Staffs
	23 Mar 1936	Maj General	Itagaki Seishiro	16th class, MA	Vice CoS, Kwantung Army	Cdr, 5th Division	28 Apr 1936 Lt General
	1 Mar 1937	Lt General	Tojo Hideki	17th class, MA	Cdr, Kwantung MP Unit	Vice Minister of Army	30 May 1938 vacant
	18 Jun 1938		Isogai Rensuke	16th class, MA
	7 Sept 1939	Lt General	Iimura Jo	21st class, MA	Cdt, Military College	Att, General Staffs
	22 Oct 1940	Lt General	Kimura Heitaro	20th class, MA	Cdr, 32nd Division	Vice Minister of Army
	10 Apr 1941	Lt General	Yoshimoto Teiichi	20th class, MA	Cdr, 2nd Division	Cdr, 1st Army
	1 Aug 1942		Kasahara Yukio	22nd class, MA
1	1 Oct 1942		Kasahara Yukio	22nd class, MA
2	7 Apr 1945		Hata Hikosaburo	24th class, MA

Vice Chief of Staff

no	from	to	rank	name	class	previous job	next job	note
	13 May 1941	17 Jul 1941	Maj General	Yoshioka Yasunao	25th class, MA	Staff, Kwantung Army	CoS, Kwantung Defense Army

Commander, Artillery

no	date of appointment	rank	name	class	previous job	next job	note
	10 Dec 1938	Maj General	Uchiyama Eitaro	21st class, MA	Commander, 5th Fld Hvy Art Brigade	Commander, 13th Division	2 Oct 1939 Lt General
	28 Sep 1940

reference

• Category:Governor General of Kwantung (Japanese Army)
• Category:Governor of Kwantung (Japanese Army)
• Category:Commander, Kwantung Army (Japanese Army)
• Category:Commander-in-chief, Kwantung Army (Japanese Army)