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Parent topics
- Imperial Japanese Army [r]: From 1868 to 1945, the ground component of the Japanese military, with great autonomy and political influence from 1900 onwards [e]
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Incumbents
- Nobuyuki Abe [r]: (1875—1953) General, Imperial Japanese Army; Army Minister (Japan), (16 June 1930—10 December 1930) Prime Minister of Japan (30 August 1939—16 January 1940) succeeding Kiichi Hiranuma and succeeded by Mitsumasa Yonai; Governor-General of Korea, and 1945 signatory of the surrender of Japanese forces in Korea; brother-in-law of Admiral Shigeyoshi Inoue [e]
- Korechika Anami [r]: General, Imperial Japanese Army; last Army Minister (Japan) before surrender of Japan, (7 Apr 1945 - 15 Aug 1945); committed seppuku rather than see surrender [e]
- Sadao Araki [r]: Japanese military and political leader associated with the kokutai philosophy and Imperial Way movement, involved in the militarization of politics preceding the Second World War; convicted as a major war criminal but pardoned in 1954 [e] Army Minister (Japan), (13 Dec 1931 - 23 Jan 1934)
- Shunroku Hata [r]: Add brief definition or description Army Minister (Japan), (30 Aug 1939 - 22 Jul 1940)
- Senjuro Hayashi [r]: Imperial Japanese Army general who was briefly Prime Minister of Japan in 1937 [e] Army Minister (Japan), (23 Jan 1934 - 5 Sep 1935)
- Prince Higashikuni [r]: Add brief definition or description Army Minister (Japan), (15 Aug 1945 - 23 Aug 1945)
- Shinroku Ishimoto [r]: Add brief definition or description Army Minister (Japan), (30 Aug 1911 - 2 Apr 1912)
- Seishiro Itagaki [r]: Imperial Japanese Army officer, a specialist in intelligence and covert operations in China, who commanded an infantry regiment during the Manchurian Incident; later chief adviser on Manchukoan affairs for the Kwangtung Army; war minister 1938-1939 during the border wars with Russia; rear army commander during WWII; condemned and hanged as a major war criminal by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East [e] Army Minister (Japan), (3 Jun 1938 - 30 Aug 1939)
- Taro Katsura [r]: Imperial Japanese Army officer and government official with posts including Prime Minister of Japan; served as Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal as a genro (elder statesman), he became prime minister again but resigned because of the movement to protect constitutional government. [e] Army Minister (Japan), (12 Jan 1898 - 23 Dec 1900)
- Yoshiyuki Kawashima [r]: Add brief definition or description Army Minister (Japan), (5 Sep 1935 - 9 Mar 1936)
- Yasutsuna Kigoshi [r]: Add brief definition or description Army Minister (Japan), (21 Dec 1912 - 24 Jun 1913)
- Gentaro Kodama [r]: Imperial Japanese Army general and government official; chief of staff to the commander in the Russo-Japanese-War; Chief of Staff (Imperial Japanese Army), (11 Apr 1906 - 30 Jul 1906)--died suddenly in office [e] Army Minister (Japan), (23 Dec 1900 - 27 Mar 1902)
- Yukihiko Kusunose [r]: Add brief definition or description Army Minister (Japan), (24 Jun 1913 - 16 Apr 1914)
- Jiro Minami [r]: Add brief definition or description Army Minister (Japan), (14 Apr 1931 - 13 Dec 1931)
- Kotaro Nakamura [r]: Add brief definition or description Army Minister (Japan), (2 Feb 1937 - 9 Feb 1937)
- Ichinosuke Oka [r]: Add brief definition or description Army Minister (Japan), (16 Apr 1914 - 30 Mar 1916)
- Kenichi Oshima [r]: Add brief definition or description Army Minister (Japan), (30 Mar 1916 - 29 Sep 1918)
- Izu Oyama [r]: Add brief definition or description Army Minister (Japan), (22 Dec 1885 - 17 May 1891),(8 Aug 1892 - 9 Oct 1894), (26 May 1895 - 31 Jul 1896)
- Takamori Saigo [r]: Add brief definition or description Army Minister (Japan), (9 Oct 1894 - 7 Mar 1895), (28 Apr 1895 - 8 May 1895)
- Sadamu Shimomura [r]: Add brief definition or description Army Minister (Japan), (23 Aug 1945 - 15 Oct 1945)
- Yoshinori Shirakawa [r]: Add brief definition or description Army Minister (Japan), (20 Apr 1927 - 2 Jul 1929)
- Hajime Sugiyama [r]: Add brief definition or description Army Minister (Japan), (9 Feb 1937 - 3 Jun 1938) ns (22 Jul 1944 - 7 Apr 1945)
- Tomonosuke Takashima [r]: Add brief definition or description Army Minister (Japan), (17 May 1891 - 8 Aug 1892) and (31 Jul 1896 - 12 Jan 1898)
- Giichi Tanaka [r]: Add brief definition or description Army Minister (Japan), (29 Sep 1918 - 9 Jun 1921) and (2 Sep 1923 - 7 Jan 1924)
- Masatake Terauchi [r]: Add brief definition or description Army Minister (Japan), (27 Mar 1902 - 30 Aug 1911)
- Hisaichi Terauchi [r]: Add brief definition or description Army Minister (Japan), (9 Mar 1936 - 2 Feb 1937)
- Hideki Tojo [r]: Add brief definition or description Army Minister (Japan), (22 Jul 1940 - 22 Jul 1944)
- Yusaku Uehara [r]: Add brief definition or description Army Minister (Japan), (5 Apr 1912 - 21 Dec 1912)
- Kazushige Ugaki [r]: Add brief definition or description Army Minister (Japan), (7 Jan 1924 - 20 Apr 1927) , (2 Jul 1929 - 16 Jun 1930), (10 Dec 1930 - 14 Apr 1931)
- Aritomo Yamagata [r]: Add brief definition or description Army Minister (Japan), (7 Mar 1895 - 28 Apr 1895), (8 May 1895 - 26 May 1895),
- Hanzo Yamanashi [r]: Add brief definition or description Army Minister (Japan), (9 Jun 1921 - 2 Sep 1923)