List of Japanese institutions (1930-1945)

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This list of major Japanese institutions covers government and some private institutions and businesses, for the period 1930 to August 1945).

Contents

[edit] Japanese Central Government

[edit] Imperial affairs

  • Imperial Japanese Affairs Ministry

[edit] Military and national defense

  • Supreme War Council
  • Japanese General Headquarters
  • Munitions Ministry
  • Weapons Ministry
  • Chief of Army General Staff
  • Inspector General of Military Training
  • Minister of War
  • Kempeitai
  • Inspector General of Army Aviation
  • Tachikawa Army Arsenal
  • Sagami Army Arsenal
  • Osaka Army Arsenal
  • Minister of Navy
  • Chief of Navy General Staff
  • Yokosuka Naval Arsenal
  • Omura Naval Arsenal
  • Koza Naval Arsenal
  • Kasumigara Naval Arsenal
  • Aomori Naval Arsenal

[edit] Industry, working, mining, finance, and commerce

  • Bank of Japan
  • Bureau of Economic Research
  • Finance & Economics Ministry
  • Commerce and Industry Ministry
  • Energy and Mining Ministry
  • Japanese Yawata Iron & Steel Company
  • Iron & Steel Administration Society
  • Nation Service Society Syndicate
  • Geological Imperial Department of Japan
  • Geographical Society of Tokyo
  • Japanese Cooperative Exportation Society of Osaka

[edit] Communications and information

  • Communications Ministry
  • Domei-Tsushin Press Agency
  • Information Department
  • Radio Tokio
  • Japan-Times and Advertiser
  • Asahi Shimbun
  • Tokio Nichi-Nichi
  • Osaka Mainichi
  • Bungei Shunjun
  • Kaizo magazine
  • Nippon Dempo
  • Tenshin Nichi-Nichi Shimbun
  • International Cultural Relations Society
  • Japanese Institute of Rockefeller

[edit] Parliament, interior, justice and local security

  • The Diet(Japanese Parliament)
  • Representatives Chamber
  • Interior Affairs Ministry
  • Justice Ministry
  • Tokko Police Service
  • Kempeitai (Metropolitan section)

[edit] Education, science/technology, culture, tourism, and religion

  • Religious Affairs Ministry
  • Shintoist Rites Research Council
  • Yasakuni Yinja
  • Education Ministry
  • Imperial University of Kyoto
  • Imperial University of Tokyo
  • First Superior School of Kyoto
  • Riken
  • Tourist Office or East Asia Travel Corporation
  • Culture & Sports Ministry
  • Imperial Japanese Olympic Association
  • Censorship Department
  • American-Japanese Society

[edit] Some associations and groups

  • Imperial Japanese Boy Scouts Association
  • Imperial Japanese Youth Federation
  • Imperial Government Aid Association
  • Tonarigumi groups
  • Showa Studies Society
  • Social Problems Institute

[edit] Foreign affairs

  • Foreign Affairs Ministry
  • East Asian Affairs Ministry (for managing East Asian Affairs since 1941)

[edit] Agriculture, harvest and fishing

  • Agriculture Ministry
  • Fishing Department
  • Imperial Farmers Association
  • Imperial Fishers Association

[edit] Japanese transport services

  • N.Y.K. Government ship line
  • Dai Nippon Koku KK
  • Transports Ministry
  • Japanese Railway Ministry

[edit] Private enterprise and groups

[edit] Private enterprise clans

  • Mitsubishi Zaibatsu
  • Mitsui Zaibatsu
  • Sumitomo Zaibatsu
  • Yasuda Zaibatsu
  • Japanese Commerce and Industries Chamber

[edit] Private and exclusive associations

  • Tokio Club
  • Saiwai Club

[edit] Government and private institutions and enterprises in exterior provinces and Manchukuo

[edit] Chosen

  • General Government of Chosen
  • East Foment Company
  • Noguchi Zaibatsu
  • Imperial Keiho University
  • Bank of Chosen
  • Chosen Railway Company
  • Heijo Arsenal
  • Fusan Port Administration Service

[edit] Karafuto

  • 88th Division Detachment
  • General Government of Karafuto
  • Imperial Toyohara University
  • Karafuto Mining and Railway Company

[edit] Taiwan

  • General Government of Taiwan
  • Superior Commerce College
  • Imperial Taihoku University
  • Formosan Manufacturing Company
  • Bank of Taiwan
  • Taiwan Army detachment

[edit] Manchukuo

[edit] Southern Mandate

  • Government Administration Department of the Japanese Navy in Southern Mandate
  • South Seas Agency (Japanese Navy administrative service in Southern Mandate; some Admirals, Vice Admirals or Rear Admirals served as Governors in the territory)
  • Tokei-Tai Service (Japanese Navy military police and intelligence service)

[edit] Occupied Chinese lands

  • Naiga Wata Kaisha (government industrial monopoly of Chinese cotton industries under Japanese administration)
  • North China Railway Company
  • Central China Railway Company

[edit] Southeast Asian lands

  • Japanese South Development Company (government monopoly, constituted since 1937, for development of some plantations and petrol pits rights in Portuguese Timor and nearby areas, but continuing work during Japanese military administration during wartime too)

[edit] See also