List of military instructors and trainers of the Empire of Japan

A list of Imperial Army-Navy personnel with responsibility for military teaching and training of new recruits.

Commandants and Directors in Army War College

• Sadao Araki:- Commandant, War College,
• Yaezo Akashiba:- Director War College
• Shuichi Miyazaki:- Deputy Commandant, War College
• Toshiro Obata:- Deputy Commandant, War College
• Jo Iimura:- Deputy Commandant in War College
• Tsunenori Kaya:- Commandant in War College

Commandments and Directors in the Imperial Japanese Army Academy

• Hideki Tōjō:- Commandant, Military Academy
• Kenzo Kitano:- Commandant, Military Academy
• Renya Mutaguchi:- Commandant, Military Academy
• Akira Mutō:- assigned Direction in Military Academy

Commander of the Naval War College

• Chuichi Nagumo:- Commander of Naval War College

President and Commander of the Naval War College

• Nobutake Kondō:- President of the Japanese Naval War College
• Sokichi Takagi:- Commander of the Japanese Naval War College

Commandants and Directors in Army and Navy academies and school

• Yoshikazu Nishi:- Commandant of the Field Artillery School
• Masatake Yasuoka:- Commandant of the Army Tank School
• Hitoshi Imamura:- Commandant, Narashino Army School
• Jirō Minami:- direction of Cavalry School
• Kyoji Tominaga:- Commandant, Kungchuling Army Tank School (Manchuria)
• Michio Sugawara:- Commandant, Shimoshizu Army Air School, Commandant, Military Air Academy, Air Training Army Commander
• Rikichi Tsukada:- Commanding General, Airborne Operations Training Unit
• Jisaburo Ozawa:- President of the Japanese Naval Academy
• Shigetarō Shimada:- Commandant, Imperial Navy Submarine School
• Kumaichi Teramoto:- Director, Hamamatsu Army Air School
• Heisuke Yanagawa:- Commandant of the Army Cavalry School
• Yoshitoshi Tokugawa:- Commandant of Akeno Army Aviation School and Tokorozawa Army Aviation School

Military Superintendents

• Rikichi Andō:- Superintendent, Toyama Army School
• Harukichi Hyakutake:- attached/Superintendent to Army Signal School, Superintendent, Hiroshima Military Prep School
• Korechika Anami:- Superintendent, Tokyo Military Preparatory School
• Mitsuo Nakazawa:- Superintendent, Military Preparatory Academy
• Tasuku Okada:- Superintendent, Army Tank School
• Ichiro Shichida:- Superintendent, Army School of Science, Superintendent, Toyama Army School
• Sizuichi Tanaka:- Superintendent, War College
• Kumaichi Teramoto:- Superintendent, Hamamatsu Army Air School
• Toshimichi Uemura:- Superintendent, Tokyo Army Preparatory School
• Otozō Yamada:- Superintendent, Military Academy

Military professors and instructors

• Heisuke Yanagawa:- Instructor at the War College
• Tsunenori Kaya:- Instructor at the War College
• Yasuhiko Asaka:- Instructor at the Military Academy
• Un Yi:- Instructor at Military Staff College
• Haruhito Kanin:- Instructor Attached to Chiba Army Tank School and War College
• Kenzo Kitano:- Commanding Officer, Senior-Course Cadet Unit
• Keisuke Fujie:- Instructor (Military Academy) also Director, Field Artillery School, Superintendent, War College
• Okikatsu Arao:- Instructor, Infantry School
• Masaharu Homma:- Instructor, War College
• Shōjirō Iida:- Instructor, Infantry School
• Tomitaro Horii:- attached to 3rd Infantry Regiment-Training Officer, Waseda University
• Kanji Ishiwara:- Instructor, War College
• Tadasu Kataoka:- Instructor, Army Cavalry School
• Masakazu Kawabe:- Commanding Officer, Training Regiment, infantry School
• Torashirō Kawabe:- Instructor (Tactics), War College, Hamamatsu Army Flying School
• Kiyotake Kawaguchi:- Instructor, Army Heavy Artillery School
• Heitarō Kimura:- Instructor, War College, Artillery Department, Office of Military Training
• Seiichi Kita:- Instructor, War College
• Koiso Kuniaki:- Instructor, Military Academy
• Shiro Makino:- Instructor, Military Academy also Senior Instructor/Superintendent, Military Preparatory Academy
• Jinsaburo Mazaki:- Instructor, Training Unit Military Academy
• Shuichi Miyazaki:- Instructor Cadet Unit, Military Academy Preparatory School, Military Instructor, War College, Deputy Commandant, War College
• Takeshi Mori:- Instructor, Cavalry School; Instructor, War College
• Toshizō Nishio:- Instructor, War College, Section Chief, Office of Military Training
• Fukutaro Nishiyama:- Instructor, Military Academy
• Tetsuzan Nagata:- Office of Military Training
• Masutaro Nakai:- Instructor, Military Academy (tactics)
• Mitsuo Nakazawa:- Instructor, War College, Superintendent, Military Preparatory Academy
• Kanji Nishihara:- concurrently Instructor, War College
• Kengo Noda:- Instructor, Infantry School, Commanding Officer, Training Unit, Infantry School
• Shihei Oba:- Commanding Officer, Infantry Unit, Toyohashi Reserve Officer School
• Hideyoshi Obata:- Instructor, War College, Commandant, Akeno Army Air School
• Sanji Okido:- Instructor, War College, November
• Ichiro Shichida:- Instructor, Infantry School, Superintendent, Military Preparatory Academy, Director, Military Academy, Superintendent, Army School of Science, Superintendent, Toyama Army School
• Takuma Shimoyama:- Instructor, Military Academy, Office of Military Training, Instructor, War College
• Hisakazu Tanaka:- Instructor, War College
• Rikichi Tsukada:- Attached, Training Unit, Shimoshizu Army Air School, Instructor, Hamamatsu Army Air School and Commanding General, Airborne Operations Training Unit
• Jun Ushiroku:- attached to Training Unit, Military Academy
• Otozō Yamada:- Instructor, War College, Instructor, Cavalry School Chief, Army Signal School, Superintendent, Military Academy
• Takeo Yasuda:- Instructor, Artillery and Engineering School, Member, Research Branch, Army Signal School, LtCol, May Member, Research Branch, Army Signal School
• Hitoshi Asano:- Instructor, Akeno and Narashino Air base
• Ichiki Kioyonao:- Instructor, Army Infantry School
• Sokichi Takagi:- instructor of the Naval Staff college
• Shigetarō Shimada:- Instructor, Naval War College, Commandant, Imperial Navy Submarine School
• Nobuo Fujita:- Instructor Japanese Navy Air force
• Saburō Sakai:- Instructor, Ohmura Navy Airbase
• Hiroyoshi Nishizawa:- Instructor, Yokosuka Navy Airfield
• Tetsuzo Iwamoto:- Instructor, Yokosuka and Tokushima Navy Airfield

Technicians, researchers and experts in military sciences

• Takushiro Hattori:- General Staff Headquarters-Army Tank School, Research Section, Army Engineer School, Research Section
• Ichiki Kioyonao:- Member, Research Branch, Toyama Army School, Instructor, Army Infantry School
• Jo Iimura:- Instructor and Deputy Commandant in War College, Member, Research Staff, War College; Chief, Total Warfare Research Institute, he made extensive trips throughout East Asia, to collect instructional materials and operative practices.
• Kanji Nishihara:- Director, Research Department, Infantry School Deputy Commandant, Narashino Army School, concurrently Instructor, War College
• Teiichi Suzuki:- Member, Research Division, War College
• Takeo Yasuda:- Member, Research Branch, Army Signal School
• Michio Sugawara:- Major (Air Force); Section Chief, Army Aeronautical Department
• Kumaichi Teramoto:- LtCol (Air Force), Officer attached; later Member in Army Aeronautical Department
• Takeo Yasuda:- Officer attached to Army Air Technical Laboratories (MajGen)
• Yoshitoshi Tokugawa:- Director of the Research Department and Director of Technical Training Department, Tokorozawa Army Aviation School

See also

• Rikugun Shikan Gakko