# List of military instructors and trainers of the Empire of Japan

A list of Imperial Army-Navy personnel with responsibility for military teaching and training of new recruits.
Commandants and Directors in Army War College
* Sadao Araki:- Commandant, War College
* Yaezo Akashiba:- Director War College
* Shuichi Miyazaki:- Deputy Commandant, War College
* Toshiro Obata:- Deputy Commandant, War College
* Jo Iimura:- Deputy Commandant in War College
* Tsunenori Kaya:- Commandant in War College
Commandments and Directors in the Imperial Japanese Army Academy
* Hideki Tōjō:- Commandant, Military Academy
* Kenzo Kitano:- Commandant, Military Academy
* Renya Mutaguchi:- Commandant, Military Academy
* Akira Mutō:- assigned Direction in Military Academy
Commander of the Naval War College
President and Commander of the Naval War College
* Nobutake Kondō:- President of the Japanese Naval War College
* Sokichi Takagi:- Commander of the Japanese Naval War College
Commandants and Directors in Army and Navy academies and school
* Yoshikazu Nishi:- Commandant of the Field Artillery School
* Masatake Yasuoka:- Commandant of the Army Tank School
* Hitoshi Imamura:- Commandant, Narashino Army School
* Jirō Minami:- direction of Cavalry School
* Kyoji Tominaga:- Commandant, Kungchuling Army Tank School (Manchuria)
* Michio Sugawara:- Commandant, Shimoshizu Army Air School, Commandant, Military Air Academy, Air Training Army Commander
* Rikichi Tsukada:- Commanding General, Airborne Operations Training Unit
* Jisaburo Ozawa:- President of the Japanese Naval Academy
* Shigetarō Shimada:- Commandant, Imperial Navy Submarine School
* Kumaichi Teramoto:- Director, Hamamatsu Army Air School
* Heisuke Yanagawa:- Commandant of the Army Cavalry School
* Yoshitoshi Tokugawa:- Commandant of Akeno Army Aviation School and Tokorozawa Army Aviation School
Military Superintendents
* Rikichi Andō:- Superintendent, Toyama Army School
* Harukichi Hyakutake:- attached/Superintendent to Army Signal School, Superintendent, Hiroshima Military Prep School
* Korechika Anami:- Superintendent, Tokyo Military Preparatory School
* Mitsuo Nakazawa:- Superintendent, Military Preparatory Academy
* Tasuku Okada:- Superintendent, Army Tank School
* Ichiro Shichida:- Superintendent, Army School of Science, Superintendent, Toyama Army School
* Sizuichi Tanaka:- Superintendent, War College
* Kumaichi Teramoto:- Superintendent, Hamamatsu Army Air School
* Toshimichi Uemura:- Superintendent, Tokyo Army Preparatory School
* Otozō Yamada:- Superintendent, Military Academy
Military professors and instructors
* Heisuke Yanagawa:- Instructor at the War College
* Tsunenori Kaya:- Instructor at the War College
* Yasuhiko Asaka:- Instructor at the Military Academy
* Un Yi:- Instructor at Military Staff College
* Haruhito Kanin:- Instructor Attached to Chiba Army Tank School and War College
* Kenzo Kitano:- Commanding Officer, Senior-Course Cadet Unit
* Keisuke Fujie:- Instructor (Military Academy) also Director, Field Artillery School, Superintendent, War College
* Okikatsu Arao:- Instructor, Infantry School
* Masaharu Homma:- Instructor, War College
* Shōjirō Iida:- Instructor, Infantry School
* Tomitaro Horii:- attached to 3rd Infantry Regiment-Training Officer, Waseda University
* Kanji Ishiwara:- Instructor, War College
* Tadasu Kataoka:- Instructor, Army Cavalry School
* Masakazu Kawabe:- Commanding Officer, Training Regiment, infantry School
* Torashirō Kawabe:- Instructor (Tactics), War College, Hamamatsu Army Flying School
* Kiyotake Kawaguchi:- Instructor, Army Heavy Artillery School
* Heitarō Kimura:- Instructor, War College, Artillery Department, Office of Military Training
* Seiichi Kita:- Instructor, War College
* Koiso Kuniaki:- Instructor, Military Academy
* Shiro Makino:- Instructor, Military Academy also Senior Instructor/Superintendent, Military Preparatory Academy
* Jinsaburo Mazaki:- Instructor, Training Unit Military Academy
* Shuichi Miyazaki:- Instructor Cadet Unit, Military Academy Preparatory School, Military Instructor, War College, Deputy Commandant, War College
* Takeshi Mori:- Instructor, Cavalry School; Instructor, War College
* Toshizō Nishio:- Instructor, War College, Section Chief, Office of Military Training
* Fukutaro Nishiyama:- Instructor, Military Academy
* Tetsuzan Nagata:- Office of Military Training
* Masutaro Nakai:- Instructor, Military Academy (tactics)
* Mitsuo Nakazawa:- Instructor, War College, Superintendent, Military Preparatory Academy
* Kanji Nishihara:- concurrently Instructor, War College
* Kengo Noda:- Instructor, Infantry School, Commanding Officer, Training Unit, Infantry School
* Shihei Oba:- Commanding Officer, Infantry Unit, Toyohashi Reserve Officer School
* Hideyoshi Obata:- Instructor, War College, Commandant, Akeno Army Air School
* Sanji Okido:- Instructor, War College, November
* Ichiro Shichida:- Instructor, Infantry School, Superintendent, Military Preparatory Academy, Director, Military Academy, Superintendent, Army School of Science, Superintendent, Toyama Army School
* Takuma Shimoyama:- Instructor, Military Academy, Office of Military Training, Instructor, War College
* Hisakazu Tanaka:- Instructor, War College
* Rikichi Tsukada:- Attached, Training Unit, Shimoshizu Army Air School, Instructor, Hamamatsu Army Air School and Commanding General, Airborne Operations Training Unit
* Jun Ushiroku:- attached to Training Unit, Military Academy
* Otozō Yamada:- Instructor, War College, Instructor, Cavalry School Chief, Army Signal School, Superintendent, Military Academy
* Takeo Yasuda:- Instructor, Artillery and Engineering School, Member, Research Branch, Army Signal School, LtCol, May Member, Research Branch, Army Signal School
* Hitoshi Asano:- Instructor, Akeno and Narashino Air base
* Ichiki Kioyonao:- Instructor, Army Infantry School
* Sokichi Takagi:- instructor of the Naval Staff college
* Shigetarō Shimada:- Instructor, Naval War College, Commandant, Imperial Navy Submarine School
* Nobuo Fujita:- Instructor Japanese Navy Air force
* Saburō Sakai:- Instructor, Ohmura Navy Airbase
* Hiroyoshi Nishizawa:- Instructor, Yokosuka Navy Airfield
* Tetsuzō Iwamoto:- Instructor, Yokosuka and Tokushima Navy Airfield
Technicians, researchers and experts in military sciences
* Takushiro Hattori:- General Staff Headquarters-Army Tank School, Research Section, Army Engineer School, Research Section
* Ichiki Kioyonao:- Member, Research Branch, Toyama Army School, Instructor, Army Infantry School
* Jo Iimura:- Instructor and Deputy Commandant in War College, Member, Research Staff, War College; Chief, Total Warfare Research Institute, he made extensive trips throughout East Asia, to collect instructional materials and operative practices.
* Kanji Nishihara:- Director, Research Department, Infantry School Deputy Commandant, Narashino Army School, concurrently Instructor, War College
* Teiichi Suzuki:- Member, Research Division, War College
* Takeo Yasuda:- Member, Research Branch, Army Signal School
* Michio Sugawara:- Major (Air Force); Section Chief, Army Aeronautical Department
* Kumaichi Teramoto:- LtCol (Air Force), Officer attached; later Member in Army Aeronautical Department
* Takeo Yasuda:- Officer attached to Army Air Technical Laboratories (MajGen)
* Yoshitoshi Tokugawa:- Director of the Research Department and Director of Technical Training Department, Tokorozawa Army Aviation School