This is a list of Japanese naval commanders. Rank is assumed to be admiral unless stated otherwise. Admiral is the rank, or part of the name of the ranks, of the highest naval officers. ...

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Post-Restoration War

• [Buyo] Takeaki Enomoto (1836-1908)
• Goro Ijuin (1852-1921)
• Sukemaro Ito (1834-1906)
• Sumiyoshi Kawamura [Jungi] (1836-1904)
• Kuranosuke Nakamuta (1837-1916)
• [Gombei] Gonnohyoe Yamamoto (1852-1933)

Enomoto Takeaki at the time of Republic of Ezo in 1869. ... Goro Ijuin ) (29 September 1852–13 January 1921) was a Meiji-period career officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy. ... Count Sumiyoshi Kawamura, (1836-1904), a retired admiral, Satsuma samurai. ... Admiral Yamamoto Gonnohyoe (山本権兵衛 October 15, 1852–December 8, 1933, also called Gombei) was a Japanese military leader and the 16th (February 20, 1913–April 16, 1914) and 22nd (September 2, 1923–January 7, 1924) Prime Minister of Japan. ...

Sino-Japanese War

• Hidaka Sonojo (1848-1932)
• Tsuboi Kozo [Hara Kozo] (1843-1898)
• Itoh Sukeyuki (1843-1914)
• Saigo Tsugumichi (1843-1902)
• Sakamoto Toshiatsu (1858-1941)

Kozo Tsobo ) (7 March 1843-1 February 1899) was an Japanese admiral of the early modern Imperial Japanese Navy known primarily for his role in the First Sino-Japanese War. ... Sukeyuki Itoh ) (20 May 1843 – 16 January 1914) was a career officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy in the Meiji-period . ... Tsugumichi Saigo (西郷 従道 Saigou Tsugumichi/Juudou) (1 June 1843 - 18 June 1902) was a Japanese politician and general who lived from the Edo to Meiji Era of Japanese history. ...

Russo-Japanese War

• Saneyuki Akiyama (1868-1918)
• Shigeto Dewa (1856-1930)
• Koichi Fuiji (1858-1926)
• Hikojiro Ijichi (1859-1912)
• Kosuke Ijichi (1855-1917)
• Sukenori Kabayama (1837-1922)
• Hikonojo Kamimura (1849-1916)
• Shichiro Kataoka (1854-1920)
• [Hiroharu] Kanji Kato (1870-1939)
• Tomasaburo Kato (1861-1923)
• Yawara Matsumoto (1860-c. 1925)
• Tatsuo Matsumura (1868-1932)
• Sotaru Misu (1855-1921)
• Kakuichi Murakami (1862-1927)
• Tokicki Nashiha [Nashiba] (1850-1923)
• Yahachi Shibayama (1850-1924)
• Hayao Shimanura (1858-1923)
• Heihachiro Togo (1848-1934)
• Sotokichi Uriu (1857-1937)

Akiyama Saneyuki was a Japanese admiral in the Meiji period. ... Dewa Shigeto 出羽 重遠 1855-1930 was a Japanese admiral. ... Sukenori Kabayama ) (9 December 1837 - 8 February 1922) was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army and an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), and later became the first Japanese Governor-General of Taiwan during the islands period as a Japanese colony. ... Hikonojo Kamimura ) (1 May 1849 – 8 August 1916) was an early admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy later commanding the IJN 2nd Fleet during the Russo-Japanese War, most notably at the Battle off Ulsan and Tsushima. ... Shichiro Kataoka (1854-1920) was an early admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy during the First Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese Wars leading the IJN 3rd Fleet during the Battles of the Yellow Sea and Tsushima. ... Baron Yahachi Shibayama ) (13 July 1850 – 1 January 1927) was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy. ... Hayao Shimamura ) (21 September 1858– 8 January 1923) was a Japanese admiral during the First Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese Wars as well as one of the first prominent staff officers and naval strategists of the early Imperial Japanese Navy. ... Admiral Togo at the age of 58, at the time of the Russo-Japanese War. ... Sotokichi Uryu ) (2 January 1857 – 11 November 1937) was an early admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy, active in the Russo-Japanese War, most notably at the Battle of Chemulpo Bay and the Battle of Tsushima. ...

World War I ¹

• Tetsutaro Sato (1886-1942)
• Gentaro Yamashita (1863-1931)
• Tanin Yamaya (1866-1940)
• Rokuro Yashiro [Masuyama] (1860-1930)
• Mitsumasa Yonai (1880-1948)

Tetsutaro Sato (1866-1942) was a Japanese military theorist and an early admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy. ... Gentaro Yamashita ) (30 July 1863 – 18 February 1931) was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy. ... Tanin Yamaya ) (18 April 1866 – 10 September 1940) was a naval theorist and admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during the early twentieth century. ... Rokuro Yashiro ) (3 January 1860- 30 June 1930) was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy and Minister of the Navy, succeeding the last of the Satsuma-era naval leaders of the early Meiji period. ... Mitsumasa Yonai (米内 光政 Yonai Mitsumasa; March 2, 1880–April 20, 1948) was a Japanese politician and the 37th Prime Minister of Japan from January 16, 1940 to July 22, 1940. ...

World War II

• Hiroaki Abe, (1889-1949)
• Masafumi Arima (1895-1944)
• Shigeru Fukudome (1891-1971)
• Boshiro Hosogaya (1888-1964)
• Matsuji Ijuin (1893-1944)
• Toshihira Inoguchi (1896-1944)
• Shigeyoshi Inoue (1889-1975)
• Seiichi Ito (1890-1945)
• Kakuji Kakuta (1890-1944)
• Mineichi Koga (1885-1944)
• Teruhisa Komatsu
• Nobutake Kondo (1886-1953)
• Takeo Kurita (1889-1977)
• Kameto Kuroshima (1893-1965)
• Jin'ichi Kusaka (1889-1972)
• Ryunosuke Kusaka (1892-1971)
• Gun'ichi Mikawa (1890-19??)
• Chuichi Nagumo (1886-1944)
• Osami Nagano (1880-1947)
• Shoji Nishimura (1889-1944)
• Tomoshige Samejima (1889-1969)
• Tetsutaro Sato (1866-1942)
• Shigetaro Shimada (1883-19??)
• Koichi Shiozawa (1881-1943)
• Kantaro Suzuki (1868-1948)
• Sokichi Takagi (1893-19??)
• Takeo Takagi (1892-1944)
• Ibo Takahashi (1888-1947)
• Takeshi Takarabe (1867-1949)
• Sadatoshi Tomioka (1897-1970)
• Soemu Toyoda (1885-1957)
• Matome Ugaki (1890-1945)
• Tamon Yamaguchi (1892-1942)
• Isoroku Yamamoto (1884-1943)

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He was commander of the Fourth Fleet and later Vice-Minister of the Navy. ... Seiichi Ito (1890-April 7, 1945) was a Japanese admiral and commander of the IJN 2nd Fleet during World War II. Born in Fukuoka Prefecture, Ito graduated from the Japanese Naval Academy in 1911, and later Naval Staff College in 1923, in various posts throughout the decade before eventually commanding... Mineichi Koga (1885-March 31/April, 1944) was a Japanese admiral and successor to Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto as commander of the Imperial Japanese Navys Combined Fleet. ... Vice Admiral Marquis Teruhisa Komatsu was member of the Japanese nobility and a member of the Japanese Navy during World War Two. ... Nobutake Kondo Nobutake Kondo (September 25, 1886 - February 19, 1953) was a Vice Admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. Kondo graduated from the Japanese Naval Academy in 1907. ... 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¹ Also served as naval commanders during Sino-Japanese War and Russo-Japanese War.