Twentieth Army (Japan)

Japanese 20th Army (1946)
Parent unit	Japanese Sixth Area Army
Components	64th Infantry Division 68th Infantry Division 116th Infantry Division Independent 81st Mixed Brigade Independent 82nd Mixed Brigade Independent 86th Mixed Brigade Independent 87th Mixed Brigade

The Japanese 20th Army (第20軍 , Dai-nijyu gun^?) was a army of the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

[edit] History

The Japanese 20st Army was formed on 10 September 1941 under the Kwantung Army in Heilongjiang province in northern Manchukuo as a garrison and border patrol force. It came under the administrative control of the Japanese First Area Army on 4 July 1942. On 19 October 1944, it was transferred to central China and came under the command of the Japanese Sixth Area Army to provide a garrison force for areas left under defended by the movement of troops further south in Operation Ichi-Go. After the surrender of Japan, it came under control of the Kuomingtang government of the Republic of China and was assigned to the maintenance of public order under it was officially disbanded on 15 July 1946, without ever having seen combat.

	Name	From	To
1	Lieutenant General Genroku Seki	11 September 1941	11 March [[1943]
2	Lieutenant General Masaki Honda	11 March 1943	8 April 1944
3	Lieutenant General Kazuyoshi Banzai	8 April 1944	September 1945

	Name	From	To
1	Major General Shiori Nagura	2 October 1941	1 July 1942
2	Major General Sadatake Nakayama	1 July 1942	7 February 1944
3	Major General Taro Kawame	7 February 1944	15 June 1945
4	Major General Youji Ichikawa	15 June 1945	September 1945

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