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.

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