This is a select list of graduates from the Japanese Imperial Military Academies (1891–1934). It is not complete.
Graduates from the Imperial Japanese Army Academy (Military Academy)
edit1891 Class
edit- Kazushige Ugaki: 1891
1897 Class
edit- Sadao Araki: November
- Jinsaburo Mazaki: November
1904 Class
edit- Tetsuzan Nagata: October
1905 Class
edit1906 Class
edit1908 Class
edit1912 Class
edit- Torashirō Kawabe: May
1915 Class
edit- Kitsuju Ayabe: May
1921 Class
edit- Akira Mutō: assigned to Military Academy, April
1922 Class
edit- Takushiro Hattori: July
1923 class
editGraduates from the Japanese Army War College
editThe following were notable graduates of the Army War College:
1903 Class
edit- Hisaichi Terauchi: December
1909 Class
edit- Otozō Yamada: December
1910 Class
edit- Toshizō Nishio: graduated from War College, assigned to Military Affairs Bureau, November
- Koiso Kuniaki: November
- Gen Sugiyama: November
- Shunroku Hata: graduated with top scholarly rank, November
1911 Class
edit- Yoshijirō Umezu: November
- Tetsuzan Nagata: November
1912 Class
edit- Kenji Doihara: November
1913 Class
edit- Yasuji Okamura: November
1914 Class
edit- Rikichi Andō: December
- Keisuke Fujie: November
- Naruhiko Higashikuni
1915 Class
edit- Hiroshi Ōshima
- Hideki Tōjō: December
- Masaharu Homma: December
- Shōjirō Iida: December
- Hitoshi Imamura: December
- Masakazu Kawabe
1916 Class
edit- Seishirō Itagaki: November
- Tomoyuki Yamashita: November
- Shizuichi Tanaka
- Shigenori Kuroda: November
- Heitarō Kimura: November
1917 Class
edit- Renya Mutaguchi: November
- Jun Ushiroku: November
- Teiichi Suzuki: November
- Kenryo Sato (Chief, Military Affairs Section, War Ministry; Chief, Military Affairs Bureau, same Ministry)[citation needed]
- Seizo Arisue (Chief, Second Bureau-Intelligence, Army General Staff)[citation needed]
- Tan Nukata (Chief, Third Bureau—Logistics, Army General Staff; Chief, General Affairs Bureau, do; Chief, Personnel Bureau, War Ministry)[citation needed]
- Goro Isoya (Chief, Third Bureau-Logistics, Army General Staff)[citation needed]
1918 Class
edit- Korechika Anami: November
- Kiichiro Higuchi: November
- Kanji Ishiwara: November
1919 Class
edit- Hideyoshi Obata: December
- Sōsaku Suzuki: November
1920 Class
edit- Hidemitsu Nakano: November
- Kingoro Hashimoto
- Akira Mutō
1921 Class
edit- Torashirō Kawabe: November
- Harukichi Hyakutake: December
1922 Class
edit- Kiyotake Kawaguchi: November
- Hatazō Adachi: November
- Takushiro Hattori (Chief, Second Section operations, Army General Staff)
- Susumu Nishiura (Chief, Army Affairs Section, War Ministry)[citation needed]
- Akiho Ishii (Chief, Military Affairs Section, War Ministry)[citation needed]
1923 Class
edit- Tadamichi Kuribayashi: November
- Hong Sa-ik
- Okikatsu Arao (Koko) (Chief, Shipping Section, Army General Staff; senior Staff Officer, Army Affairs Section, War Ministry; Chief, Third Section—Organization and Mobilization, Army General Staff)
- Hiroo Sato (Chief, War Materiel Section, War Ministry; and an officer who, like Col Arao, had the confidence of War Minister Anami)[citation needed]
- Yozo Miyama (Chief, Third Section-Organization and Mobilization, Army General Staffs post which he held before the author assumed it; and Senior Adjutant, War Ministry)[citation needed]
- Makoto Matsutani (Chief, 20th Group-War Coordination, Army General Staff; Military Secretary to Prime Minister Suzuki)[citation needed]
1925 Class
edit- Shizuo Yokoyama: November
1927 Class
edit- Takeshi Mori: December
1929
edit- Hiromichi Yahara: returned as an instructor 1937-1940
1930 Class
edit- Takushiro Hattori: November
- Masutaro Nakai: December
1931 Class
edit1937 Class
edit1944 Class
edit- Takagi Masao (3rd President of South Korea, also known as Park Chung-hee)
Graduates in Military Overseas Studies
edit- Shunroku Hata: Military Student, Germany, March 1912
- Hisaichi Terauchi: Military Student, Germany, February 1913
- Yoshijirō Umezu: Military Student, Germany, April 1913
- Masaharu Homma: Military Student, England, August 1918 (and served as observer with British forces in France)
- Hitoshi Imamura: Military Student, England, April 1918; Assistant Military Attaché, England, October 1918
- Naruhiko Higashikuni: Resident Officer, France, studying military tactics, April 1920
- Tomoyuki Yamashita: Military Student. Germany, July 1921
- Hideyoshi Obata: Military Student, England, April 1923; Major, March 1926
- Minoru Sasaki: Military Student, U.S.S.R., September 1927; same for Poland and U.S.S.R., August 1928
- Torashirō Kawabe: Resident Officer, Riga, Latvia (studying Soviet military affairs), January 1926-September 1928
Students in Army Cavalry School
edit- Kitsuju Ayabe: Equitation Student, October 1917
Graduates from Artillery and Engineering School
edit- Takeo Yasuda: July 1916
Graduates from the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy
edit- Kantarō Suzuki: 1887
- Mitsumasa Yonai: 1901
- Shigetarō Shimada: November 1904
Graduates from the Naval War College
edit- Kantarō Suzuki: 1898
- Shigetarō Shimada: Class "A" Student, December 1913
- Mitsumasa Yonai: 1913