List of Japanese naval commanders

This is a list of Japanese naval commanders. Rank is assumed to be admiral unless stated otherwise.

Post-Restoration War

 * [Gombei] Yamamoto Gonnohyōe (1852–1933)
 * Ijuin Gorō (1852–1921)
 * Kawamura Sumiyoshi [Jungi] (1836–1904)
 * Nakamuta Kuranosuke (1837–1916)
 * Itō Sukemaro (1834–1906)
 * Enomoto Takeaki (1836–1908)

Sino-Japanese War

 * Tsuboi Kōzō [Hara Kōzō] (1843–1898)
 * Hidaka Sonojo (1848–1932)
 * Itō Sukeyuki (1843–1914)
 * Sakamoto Toshiatsu (1858–1941)
 * Saigō Tsugumichi (1843–1902)

Russo-Japanese War

 * Koichi Fuiji (1858–1926)
 * Shimamura Hayao (1858–1923)
 * Tōgō Heihachirō (1848–1934)
 * Kamimura Hikonojō (1849–1916)
 * Murakami Kakuichi (1862–1927)
 * Kanji Kato (1870–1939)
 * Akiyama Saneyuki (1868–1918)
 * Dewa Shigetō (1856–1930)
 * Kataoka Shichirō (1854–1920)
 * Misu Sotarō (1855–1921)
 * Uryū Sotokichi (1857–1937)
 * Kabayama Sukenori (1837–1922)
 * Matsumura Tatsuo (1868–1932)
 * Nashiba Tokioki (1850–1924)
 * Katō Tomosaburō (1861–1923)
 * Shibayama Yahachi (1850–1924)
 * Matsumoto Yawara (1860–c. 1925)

World War I

 * Tetsutaro Sato (1886–1942)
 * Yamashita Gentarō (1863–1931)
 * Yamaya Tanin (1866–1940)
 * Yashiro Rokurō (1860–1930)
 * Mitsumasa Yonai (1880–1948)

World War II

 * Hiroaki Abe (1889–1949)
 * Masafumi Arima (1895–1944)
 * Shigeru Fukudome (1891–1971)
 * Boshirō Hosogaya (1888–1964)
 * Matsuji Ijuin (1893–1944)
 * Toshihira Inoguchi (1896–1944)
 * Shigeyoshi Inoue (1889–1975)
 * Seiichi Itō (1890–1945)
 * Kakuji Kakuta (1890–1944)
 * Mineichi Koga (1885–1944)
 * Teruhisa Komatsu (1888–1970)
 * Nobutake Kondō (1886–1953)
 * Takeo Kurita (1889–1977)
 * Kameto Kuroshima (1893–1965)
 * Jinichi Kusaka (1889–1972)
 * Ryūnosuke Kusaka (1892–1971)
 * Gunichi Mikawa (1888–1981)
 * Osami Nagano (1880–1947)
 * Chūichi Nagumo (1886–1944)
 * Shōji Nishimura (1889–1944)
 * Tomoshige Samejima (1889–1969)
 * Satō Tetsutarō (1866–1942)
 * Shigetarō Shimada (1883–1976)
 * Kōichi Shiozawa (1881–1943)
 * Kantarō Suzuki (1868–1948)
 * Sōkichi Takagi (1893–1979)
 * Takeo Takagi (1892–1944)
 * Ibō Takahashi (1888–1947)
 * Takarabe Takeshi (1867–1949)
 * Sadatoshi Tomioka (1897–1970)
 * Soemu Toyoda (1885–1957)
 * Matome Ugaki (1890–1945)
 * Tamon Yamaguchi (1892–1942)
 * Isoroku Yamamoto (1884–1943)