Twenty-Third Army (Japan)

Japanese Twenty-Third Army (1945)
Parent unit	China Expeditionary Army
Components	104th Infantry Division 108th Infantry Regiment 137th Infantry Regiment 161st Infantry Regiment 129th Infantry Division 91st Infantry Brigade 92nd Infantry Brigade 130th Infantry Division 93rd Infantry Brigade 94th Infantry Brigade 23rd Independent Mixed Brigade 8th Independent Infantry Brigade 13th Independent Infantry Brigade

The Japanese 23rd Army (第23軍 , Dai-nijyusan gun^?) was an army of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.

[edit] History

The Japanese 23rd Army was formed on 26 June 1941 under the Imperial General Headquarters. It was transferred to the control of the China Expeditionary Army on 12 August of the same year. It was based in Guangdong province and on Hainan Island to replace the Southern China Area Army which was disbanded 26 June 1941.

The Japanese 23rd Army was primarily a garrison force to deter the possible landings of Allied forces in southern China. It was involved in the Battle of Guilin-Liuzhou (part of Operation Ichi-Go) from August-November 1944. The Japanese 23rd Army surrendered to the Chinese Kuomingtang forces on 15 August 1945 with the surrender of Japan and was disbanded in Guangzhou.

	Name	From	To
1	Lt. General Seizo Arisue	28 June 1941	15 September 1941
2	Lt. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi	15 September 1941	10 June 1943
3	Major General Yosuke Adachi	10 June 1943	16 December 1944
4	Major General Katsunobu Uzawa	16 December 1944	15 April 1945
5	Major General Naosuke Tomida	15 April 1945	1 September 1945

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