# List of graduates of the Japanese Imperial Military Academies

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)
### 1891 Class

* Kazushige Ugaki: 1891

### 1897 Class

* Sadao Araki: November
* Jinsaburo Mazaki: November

### 1904 Class

* Tetsuzan Nagata: October

### 1905 Class

* Michitarō Komatsubara

### 1906 Class

* Hiroshi Ōshima

### 1908 Class

* Naruhiko Higashikuni

### 1912 Class

* Torashirō Kawabe: May

### 1915 Class

* Kitsuju Ayabe: May

### 1921 Class

* Akira Mutō: assigned to Military Academy, April

### 1922 Class

* Takushiro Hattori: July

### 1923 class

* Hiromichi Yahara

## Graduates from the Japanese Army War College

The following were notable graduates of the Army War College:

### 1903 Class

* Hisaichi Terauchi: December

### 1909 Class

* Otozō Yamada: December

### 1910 Class

* 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

* Yoshijirō Umezu: November
* Tetsuzan Nagata: November

### 1912 Class

* Kenji Doihara: November

### 1913 Class

* Yasuji Okamura: November

### 1914 Class

* Rikichi Andō: December
* Keisuke Fujie: November
* Naruhiko Higashikuni

### 1915 Class

* Hiroshi Ōshima
* Hideki Tōjō: December
* Masaharu Homma: December
* Shōjirō Iida: December
* Hitoshi Imamura: December
* Masakazu Kawabe

### 1916 Class

* Seishirō Itagaki: November
* Tomoyuki Yamashita: November
* Shizuichi Tanaka
* Shigenori Kuroda: November
* Heitarō Kimura: November

### 1917 Class

* Renya Mutaguchi: November
* Jun Ushiroku: November
* Teiichi Suzuki: November
* Kenryo Sato (Chief, Military Affairs Section, War Ministry; Chief, Military Affairs Bureau, same Ministry)
* Seizo Arisue (Chief, Second Bureau-Intelligence, Army General Staff)
* Tan Nukata (Chief, Third Bureau—Logistics, Army General Staff; Chief, General Affairs Bureau, do; Chief, Personnel Bureau, War Ministry)
* Goro Isoya (Chief, Third Bureau-Logistics, Army General Staff)

### 1918 Class

* Korechika Anami: November
* Kiichiro Higuchi: November
* Kanji Ishiwara: November

### 1919 Class

* Hideyoshi Obata: December
* Sōsaku Suzuki: November

### 1920 Class

* Hidemitsu Nakano: November
* Kingoro Hashimoto
* Akira Mutō

### 1921 Class

* Torashirō Kawabe: November
* Harukichi Hyakutake: December

### 1922 Class

* Kiyotake Kawaguchi: November
* Hatazō Adachi: November
* Takushiro Hattori (Chief, Second Section operations, Army General Staff)
* Susumu Nishiura (Chief, Army Affairs Section, War Ministry)
* Akiho Ishii (Chief, Military Affairs Section, War Ministry)

### 1923 Class

* 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)
* 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)
* Makoto Matsutani (Chief, 20th Group-War Coordination, Army General Staff; Military Secretary to Prime Minister Suzuki)

### 1925 Class

* Shizuo Yokoyama: November

### 1927 Class

* Takeshi Mori: December

### 1929

* Hiromichi Yahara: returned as an instructor 1937-1940

### 1930 Class

* Takushiro Hattori: November
* Masutaro Nakai: December

### 1931 Class

* Masanobu Tsuji

### 1937 Class

* José Laurel III

### 1944 Class

* Takagi Masao (3rd President of South Korea, also known as Park Chung-hee)

## Graduates in Military Overseas Studies

* 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

* Kitsuju Ayabe: Equitation Student, October 1917

## Graduates from Artillery and Engineering School

* Takeo Yasuda: July 1916

## Graduates from the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy

* Kantarō Suzuki: 1887
* Mitsumasa Yonai: 1901
* Shigetarō Shimada: November 1904

## Graduates from the Naval War College

* Kantarō Suzuki: 1898
* Shigetarō Shimada: Class "A" Student, December 1913
* Mitsumasa Yonai: 1913