Japanese military attachés in foreign service

List of Japanese military attachés in foreign service

Austria-Hungary

Belgium

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

Canada

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

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

Germany

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

Poland

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 =

  • Torashirō Kawabe: member, Japanese delegation, London Conference, 1929-May 1930
  • Heitarō Kimura: member, Japanese delegation, London Conference, 1929-May 1930

= 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=

=Army attaché in Matsuoka's 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=

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Military attaches in foreign service