Organization of Japanese Expeditionary forces in China

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Organization of Japanese Expeditionary forces in China.

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[edit] Commanders-in-Chief of all Imperial Expeditionary Army in China

  • Shunroku Hata:- Commander-in-Chief, China Expeditionary Army
  • Otozo Yamada:- Commander Central China Expeditionary Army
  • Toshizo Nishio:- Commanding General, China Expeditionary Army (full General)
  • Yasuji Okamura:- Commander-in-Chief, China Expeditionary Army, (replaced Hata); formally surrendered his forces to Chinese General Ho Ying-chin

[edit] Conformation of North Chinese Army

[edit] Commanders-in-Chief, North Chinese Army

  • Yasuji Okamura:- Commanding General, North China Area Army
  • Gen Sugiyama:- Commanding General, North China Area Army
  • Hisaichi Terauchi:- Commanding General, North China Area Army
  • Sadamu Shimomura:- Commanding North China Area Army

[edit] Deputy Chief of Staff in North Chinese Army

  • Sosaku Suzuki:- Deputy Chief of Staff, China Expeditionary Army

[edit] Chief of Staff, North Chinese Army

  • Hatazo Adachi:- Chief of Staff, North China Area Army
  • Sanji Okido:- Chief of Staff, North China Area Army
  • Tomoyuki Yamashita:- Chief of Staff, North China Area Army

[edit] Assistant to Chief of Staff, North Chinese Army

[edit] Staff members, North Chinese Army

  • Sanji Okido:- Staff Officer, China Garrison Army

[edit] Officers attached to North Chinese HQ

  • Hidemitsu Nakano:- Headquarters, China Garrison Army

[edit] Commanders in regular Armies, North Chinese Group

  • Masaharu Homma:- 27th Division Commander (LtGen), July (blockade of Tientsin foreign concessions, 1939)
  • Tomoyuki Yamashita:- Commanding General, China Garrison Mixed Brigade,
  • Raichiro Sumida:- Led First Army (HQ In Taiyuan, Shanshi)
  • Sadamu Shimomura:- Twelfth, Forty-third Armies Chief
  • Tadayasu Hosokowa:- Forty-Third Army, (Tsinan Area)

[edit] Special Units in North China area

[edit] Structures of Central Chinese Army

[edit] Commanders-in-Chief Central Chinese Army

  • Shunroku Hata:- Commander-in-Chief, China Expeditionary Army
  • Otozo Yamada:- Commander Central China Expeditionary Army
  • Toshizo Nishio:- Commanding General, China Expeditionary Army (full General)
  • Yasuji Okamura:- Commander-in-Chief, China Expeditionary Army (replaced Hata); formally surrendered his forces to Chinese General Ho Ying-chin

[edit] Officers attached to Central Chinese Army HQ

[edit] Deputy Chief of Staff, Central Chinese Army

  • Yuitsu Tsuchiashi:- Deputy Chief of Staff, China Expeditionary Army
  • Toshimichi Uemura:- Deputy Chief of Staff, Shanghai Expeditionary Army

[edit] Chief of Staff, Central Chinese Army

[edit] Staff members in Central Chinese Army

  • Joichiro Sanada:- Staff Officer, China Expeditionary Army
  • Masakazu Kawabe:- Chief of Staff, Central China Expeditionary Army
  • Prince Mikasa:- staff Officer in the Headquarters, Central Chinese Army (Nanjing)

[edit] Staff members in China Area Fleet

  • Joichiro Sanada:- Staff Officer, China Area Fleet

[edit] Commanders in Regular Armies, Central Chinese Army

  • Korechika Anami:- Eleventh Army Commander (Central China)
  • Kitsuju Ayabe:- Regimental Commander, 25th Cavalry (Central China)
  • Takushiro Hattori:- Regimental Commander, 65th Infantry (China)
  • Prince Higashikuni:- Commanding General, Second Army (China), General, with service in China--awarded Order of Golden Kite, 1st Class
  • Kenzo Kitano:- 4th Division Commander, from Shanghai to Philippines campaign
  • Naosaburo Okabe:- Chief of Sixth Area Army (Wuchang-Hankow and Hengyang)
  • Ichiro Sakanishi:- Commander, Twentieth Army(Hengyang, Wuchang-Hankow)
  • Hiro Sogawa: led Sixth Army (in collaboration with Thirteenth Army)
  • Takuro Matsui:- Commander-in-Chief, Thirteenth Army (Lower reaches of Yangzte river, below Hukow (east Hsiaochinkow or Chiuchiang), along Southern Tientsin-Pukow Railline)
  • Takashi Takamori:- Twelfth Army Commander, (Chengchow Area)

[edit] Chief in China Affairs Board, Chinese Central Army

  • Teiichi Suzuki:- first Chief, Political Affairs Section, Asia Development Board (China Affairs Board), ("was charged with providing guidance for Wang Ching-wei's new regime at Nanking")

[edit] Special Units in Central China area

  • "Tama Unit" (Unit Ei-1644):- with HQ in Nanking

[edit] Structure in South Chinese Army

[edit] Commanders-in-Chief in Chinese South Army

[edit] Officers attached to South Chinese Army HQ

  • Hidemitsu Nakano:- Headquarters, South China Area Army

[edit] Chief of Staff, South Chinese Army

[edit] Staff officers in South Chinese Army

  • Masutaro Nakai:- Staff Officer, 2nd Division, Headquarters, South China Expeditionary Army, Colonel, Staff Officer, South China Expeditionary Army, (Canton)

[edit] Commanders in Regular Armies, South Chinese Army

  • Hisaichi Tanaka:- Commanding General, Twenty-third Army, Canton (LtGen).
  • Kuichi Tanaka:- Commanding Twenty-third Army (Canton)
  • Yukio Kasahara:- Commander, Eleventh Army (Kweilin)

[edit] Special Units in the South China area

[edit] See also

  • Others Japanese Army units distacated in Chinese Front