Imperial General Headquarters
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- Strike North Group - dominated by the Imperial Japanese Army
- Strike South Group - dominated by the Imperial Japanese Navy
Organization of the Imperial General Headquarters
The Emperor of Japan was defined as the Head of State and the Generalissimo of the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces from 1889 to 1945.He was assisted in his tasks by the Imperial General Headquarters consisting of the following:
- Chief of the Army General Staff
- Chief of the Navy General Staff
- Minister of War
- Minister of the Navy
- Inspectorate General of Military Training
- Inspectorate General of Aviation
Organization of the Imperial Japanese Army -- December 8, 1941
The majority of these troops were stationed in China, Indochina, Japan, Formosa, Korea, and Manchuria. This includes some 61 divisions, 59 brigades, and 51 air squadrons. Only a fraction of Japan's military, 11 to 14 divisions and the South Seas Detachment, would be available for the December 1941 operations in southeast Asia and the Pacific.
- Imperial General Headquarters
- *IJA General Staff - headed by a Chief (General Hajime Sugiyama) and several Vice Chiefs
- **General Affairs Bureau
- ***Organization and Mobilization Department
- ***Training Department
- **1st (Operations) Bureau
- ***Operations Department
- ***Defence Department
- **2nd (Intelligence)Bureau
- ***Europe and the Americas Department
- ***China Department
- ***Russia/Soviet Union Department
- ***Intelligence Department
- **3rd (Transport and Communications) Bureau
- ***Transport Department
- ***Communications Department
- **4th (Historical) Bureau
- ***Military History Department
- ***Strategy and Tactics Department
- **General Staff College
- **Land Survey Department
- *Ministry Of War
- *General Defense Command
- *China Expeditionary Army
- *Kwantung Theater Army
- *Southern Expeditionary Army
- *Units under direct General Staff control
- **Imperial Japanese Army Air Service
- **4th Infantry Division
- **South Seas Detachment
- **1st Army Hospital
- **2nd Army Hospital
- **3rd Army Hospital
- **Korean Remount Department
- **Army Air Service Transport Department
- **IGHQ Communications Department
See also
- Military History of Japan
- US Navy Department,
- US War Department,
- Supreme Allied Headquarters
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