Japanese military attachés in foreign service

List of Japanese military attachés in foreign service

Austria-Hungary

  • Shizuo Matsuoka: military attaché, Austria-Hungary, September 1909
  • Hisaichi Terauchi: assistant military attaché, Austria-Hungary, December 1911
  • Tomoyuki Yamashita: military attaché (Lt. Col.), Austria—Hungary, February 1927

Belgium

  • Yuitsu Tsuchihashi: military attaché, France — and, concurrently, Belgium, August 1937

Canada

  • Tadamichi Kuribayashi: military attaché, Canada, April 1930

China

  • Shigeru Honjō: military attaché to China
  • Seiichi Kita: resident officer, China, February 1921, Resident Officer, China, May 1927
  • Kenji Doihara: official duty, China, December 1922
  • Teiichi Suzuki: assistant military attaché, China, December 1929
  • Yuitsu Tsuchihashi: concurrently military attaché, China, December 1940. Spelled as "Tsuchiachi" in French literature.

Denmark

  • Tetsuzan Nagata: language officer, Denmark, June 1915;

England

  • Masaharu Homma: resident officer, also military student, England, August 1918 (and served as observer with British forces in France)
  • Hitoshi Imamura: assistant military attaché, England, October 1918
  • Ando Rikichi: resident officer, England, January 1919
  • Shizuichi Tanaka: resident officer, England, March 1919
  • Seiichi Kita: resident officer, England, September 1927
  • Shigenori Kuroda: resident officer, England, January 1922

France

  • Keisuke Fujie: assistant military attaché, France, August 1917
  • Naruhiko Higashikuni: resident officer, France, studying military tactics, April 1920
  • Kanji Nishihara: resident officer, France, February 1926
  • Korechika Anami: official duty, France, August 1927
  • Ishiro Shichida: resident officer, France, May 1931
  • Takushiro Hattori: resident officer, France, June 1934; observer, Italo-Ethiopian War, October 1935
  • Yuitsu Tsuchihashi: military attaché, France—and, concurrently, Belgium, August 1937. Spelled as "Tsuchiachi" in French.

Germany

  • Toshizō Nishio: language officer, Germany, August 1912
  • Tetsuzan Nagata: language officer, Germany, October 1913
  • Hideki Tōjō: official duty, Germany, July 1921;
  • Yoshio Kozuki: language officer, Germany, November 1921
  • Heitarō Kimura: resident officer, Germany, January 1922
  • Kenzo Kitano: resident officer, Germany, September 1922
  • Kanji Ishiwara: language officer, Germany, July 1922
  • Takeo Yasuda: resident officer, Germany, January 1922;
  • Mitsuo Nakazawa: resident officer, Germany, July 1923;
  • Sōsaku Suzuki: resident officer, Germany, March 1923
  • Isamu Yokoyama: resident officer, Germany (Major), August 1924
  • Takuma Shimoyama: resident officer, Germany, March 1925
  • Masakazu Kawabe: military attaché Germany, August 1929
  • Kioji Tominaga: official duty, Germany, December 1935
  • Hiroshi Ōshima: stationed in Berlin as military attaché working for alliance between Japan and Nazi Germany (Anti-Comintern Pact, 1937; Tripartite Alliance, 1940); Ambassador to Germany, 1940
  • Kitsuju Ayabe: member, Military Observer Mission to Germany and Italy (under LtGen Yamashita), December 1940-July 1941

India

Italy

  • Shigetarō Shimada: assistant naval attaché Italy, August 1936; naval attaché, same country, December 1917

Manchukuo

  • Otosaburo Yano: Japanese military attaché, Hsinking, Manchukuo
  • Tadashi Hanaya: (head) Japanese military attaché, Hsinking, Manchukuo
  • Shun Akifusa: (head) Harbin military attaché mission, Manchukuo

Mexico

Philippines

  • Gen Sugiyama: official duty, Philippines, February 1912
  • Masafumi Yamauchi: official tor to the Philippines, 1934–1935

Poland

  • Kiichiro Higuchi: military attaché, Japanese legation, Poland, May 1925
  • Harukichi Hyakutake: resident officer, Poland, December 1925
  • Okikatsu Arao: assistant military attaché, Poland, March 1936
  • Masataka Yamawaki: military attaché to Warsaw, 1934–1935

Singapore

Soviet Union

  • Sadao Araki: language officer, Russia, November 1909; Military Attaché, Russia, May 1913
  • Mitsumasa Yonai: resident naval officer, Russia, 1915
  • Kioji Tominaga: assistant military attaché, USSR, December 1928
  • Torashirō Kawabe: resident officer, Riga, Latvia (studying Soviet military affairs), January 1926, Military Attaché, U.S.S.R., February 1932 April 1934
  • Saburo Hayashi: served in the Soviet Union during 1938 as a language officer, later in 1939 was Assistant Military Attaché in Moscow.
  • Michitake Yamaoka: military attaché to the Soviet Union (1940–1943)

Sweden

Switzerland

  • Masakazu Kawabe: resident officer, Switzerland, April 1918
  • Hideki Tōjō: official duty, Switzerland, August 1919
  • Yoshijirō Umezu: military attaché, Switzerland, November 1919
  • Kioji Tominaga: member, Japanese Delegation to General Disarmament Conference, Geneva, December 1931
  • Kanji Ishiwara: member, Japanese Delegation to Geneva Conference, October 1932
  • Keisuke Fujie: member of Japanese Delegation, General Disarmament Conference, Geneva, August 1931

Turkey

United States

Military attaches in Diplomatic missions

Concurrent Mission to Europe

Assistant to Peace Conference February 1919

  • Jo Iimura: member, Plenipotentiary's Suite, Peace Conference, February 1919
  • Shunroku Hata: member, Plenipotentiary's Suite, Peace Conference, February 1919

Assistant to Mission to League of Nations,1920-23

  • Heisuke Yanagawa: member of the Japanese Military Mission to League of Nations during 1920-23 period

Assistant to London Conference 1929-May 30

Assistant to General Disarmament Conference,Geneva 1931-32

  • Keisuke Fujie: member of Japanese delegation, General Disarmament Conference, Geneva, August 1931
  • Kioji Tominaga: member, Japanese delegation to General Disarmament Conference, Geneva, December 1931
  • Kanji Ishiwara: member, Japanese delegation to Geneva Conference, October 1932

Assistant to Ho-Umezu Agreement June 1935

  • Yoshihiro Umezu: commanding general, China Garrison Army, March 1934 (Ho-Umezu Agreement, June 1935);

Member in Yamashita s Mission to Europe(Germany and Italy),December 1940-July 1941

  • Kitsuju Ayabe: member, military observer Lt. Gen. Yamashita's diplomatic mission to Germany and Italy in December 1940 - July 1941

Special Military Attaché in Germany

  • Kazuo Otani: special military Attaché in Germany, official representative for buying armaments, also heavy supporter and liaison with the Nazis

Army attaché in Matsuoka's mission to Europe and Russia

  • Yatsuji Nagai: Army attaché in Matsuoka's Diplomatic Mission to Europe and Russia

Army diplomatic support to Washington diplomatic mission

  • Hideo Iwakuro: Army foreign affairs officer, provided diplomatic support to the Washington mission

Special aide to Nomura Mission to Washington

  • Kaname Wakasugi: special aide to Nomura Mission to Washington