List of military instructors and trainers of the Empire of Japan

A list of Imperial Army-Navy personnel with responsibility for military teaching and training of new recruits.

Commandants and Directors in Army War College
 * Sadao Araki:- Commandant, War College,
 * Yaezo Akashiba:- Director War College
 * Shuichi Miyazaki:- Deputy Commandant, War College
 * Toshiro Obata:- Deputy Commandant, War College
 * Jo Iimura:- Deputy Commandant in War College
 * Tsunenori Kaya:- Commandant in War College

Commandments and Directors in the Imperial Japanese Army Academy
 * Hideki Tōjō:- Commandant, Military Academy
 * Kenzo Kitano:- Commandant, Military Academy
 * Renya Mutaguchi:- Commandant, Military Academy
 * Akira Mutō:- assigned Direction in Military Academy

Commander of the Naval War College
 * Chuichi Nagumo:- Commander of Naval War College'''

President and Commander of the Naval War College
 * Nobutake Kondō:- President of the Japanese Naval War College
 * Sokichi Takagi:- Commander of the Japanese Naval War College

Commandants and Directors in Army and Navy academies and school
 * Yoshikazu Nishi:- Commandant of the Field Artillery School
 * Masatake Yasuoka:- Commandant of the Army Tank School
 * Hitoshi Imamura:- Commandant, Narashino Army School
 * Jirō Minami:- direction of Cavalry School
 * Kyoji Tominaga:- Commandant, Kungchuling Army Tank School (Manchuria)
 * Michio Sugawara:- Commandant, Shimoshizu Army Air School, Commandant, Military Air Academy, Air Training Army Commander
 * Rikichi Tsukada:- Commanding General, Airborne Operations Training Unit
 * Jisaburo Ozawa:- President of the Japanese Naval Academy
 * Shigetarō Shimada:- Commandant, Imperial Navy Submarine School
 * Kumaichi Teramoto:- Director, Hamamatsu Army Air School
 * Heisuke Yanagawa:- Commandant of the Army Cavalry School
 * Yoshitoshi Tokugawa:- Commandant of Akeno Army Aviation School and Tokorozawa Army Aviation School

Military Superintendents
 * Rikichi Andō:- Superintendent, Toyama Army School
 * Harukichi Hyakutake:- attached/Superintendent to Army Signal School, Superintendent, Hiroshima Military Prep School
 * Korechika Anami:- Superintendent, Tokyo Military Preparatory School
 * Mitsuo Nakazawa:- Superintendent, Military Preparatory Academy
 * Tasuku Okada:- Superintendent, Army Tank School
 * Ichiro Shichida:- Superintendent, Army School of Science, Superintendent, Toyama Army School
 * Sizuichi Tanaka:- Superintendent, War College
 * Kumaichi Teramoto:- Superintendent, Hamamatsu Army Air School
 * Toshimichi Uemura:- Superintendent, Tokyo Army Preparatory School
 * Otozō Yamada:- Superintendent, Military Academy

Military professors and instructors
 * Heisuke Yanagawa:- Instructor at the War College
 * Tsunenori Kaya:- Instructor at the War College
 * Yasuhiko Asaka:- Instructor at the Military Academy
 * Un Yi:- Instructor at Military Staff College
 * Haruhito Kanin:- Instructor Attached to Chiba Army Tank School and War College
 * Kenzo Kitano:- Commanding Officer, Senior-Course Cadet Unit
 * Keisuke Fujie:- Instructor (Military Academy) also Director, Field Artillery School, Superintendent, War College
 * Okikatsu Arao:- Instructor, Infantry School
 * Masaharu Homma:- Instructor, War College
 * Shōjirō Iida:- Instructor, Infantry School
 * Tomitaro Horii:- attached to 3rd Infantry Regiment-Training Officer, Waseda University
 * Kanji Ishiwara:- Instructor, War College
 * Tadasu Kataoka:- Instructor, Army Cavalry School
 * Masakazu Kawabe:- Commanding Officer, Training Regiment, infantry School
 * Torashirō Kawabe:- Instructor (Tactics), War College, Hamamatsu Army Flying School
 * Kiyotake Kawaguchi:- Instructor, Army Heavy Artillery School
 * Heitarō Kimura:- Instructor, War College, Artillery Department, Office of Military Training
 * Seiichi Kita:- Instructor, War College
 * Koiso Kuniaki:- Instructor, Military Academy
 * Shiro Makino:- Instructor, Military Academy also Senior Instructor/Superintendent, Military Preparatory Academy
 * Jinsaburo Mazaki:- Instructor, Training Unit Military Academy
 * Shuichi Miyazaki:- Instructor Cadet Unit, Military Academy Preparatory School, Military Instructor, War College, Deputy Commandant, War College
 * Takeshi Mori:- Instructor, Cavalry School; Instructor, War College
 * Toshizō Nishio:- Instructor, War College, Section Chief, Office of Military Training
 * Fukutaro Nishiyama:- Instructor, Military Academy
 * Tetsuzan Nagata:- Office of Military Training
 * Masutaro Nakai:- Instructor, Military Academy (tactics)
 * Mitsuo Nakazawa:- Instructor, War College, Superintendent, Military Preparatory Academy
 * Kanji Nishihara:- concurrently Instructor, War College
 * Kengo Noda:- Instructor, Infantry School, Commanding Officer, Training Unit, Infantry School
 * Shihei Oba:- Commanding Officer, Infantry Unit, Toyohashi Reserve Officer School
 * Hideyoshi Obata:- Instructor, War College, Commandant, Akeno Army Air School
 * Sanji Okido:- Instructor, War College, November
 * Ichiro Shichida:- Instructor, Infantry School, Superintendent, Military Preparatory Academy, Director, Military Academy, Superintendent, Army School of Science, Superintendent, Toyama Army School
 * Takuma Shimoyama:- Instructor, Military Academy, Office of Military Training, Instructor, War College
 * Hisakazu Tanaka:- Instructor, War College
 * Rikichi Tsukada:- Attached, Training Unit, Shimoshizu Army Air School, Instructor, Hamamatsu Army Air School and Commanding General, Airborne Operations Training Unit
 * Jun Ushiroku:- attached to Training Unit, Military Academy
 * Otozō Yamada:- Instructor, War College, Instructor, Cavalry School Chief, Army Signal School, Superintendent, Military Academy
 * Takeo Yasuda:- Instructor, Artillery and Engineering School, Member, Research Branch, Army Signal School, LtCol, May Member, Research Branch, Army Signal School
 * Hitoshi Asano:- Instructor, Akeno and Narashino Air base
 * Ichiki Kioyonao:- Instructor, Army Infantry School
 * Sokichi Takagi:- instructor of the Naval Staff college
 * Shigetarō Shimada:- Instructor, Naval War College, Commandant, Imperial Navy Submarine School
 * Nobuo Fujita:- Instructor Japanese Navy Air force
 * Saburō Sakai:- Instructor, Ohmura Navy Airbase
 * Hiroyoshi Nishizawa:- Instructor, Yokosuka Navy Airfield
 * Tetsuzo Iwamoto:- Instructor, Yokosuka and Tokushima Navy Airfield

Technicians, researchers and experts in military sciences
 * Takushiro Hattori:- General Staff Headquarters-Army Tank School, Research Section, Army Engineer School, Research Section
 * Ichiki Kioyonao:- Member, Research Branch, Toyama Army School, Instructor, Army Infantry School
 * Jo Iimura:- Instructor and Deputy Commandant in War College, Member, Research Staff, War College; Chief, Total Warfare Research Institute, he made extensive trips throughout East Asia, to collect instructional materials and operative practices.
 * Kanji Nishihara:- Director, Research Department, Infantry School Deputy Commandant, Narashino Army School, concurrently Instructor, War College
 * Teiichi Suzuki:- Member, Research Division, War College
 * Takeo Yasuda:- Member, Research Branch, Army Signal School
 * Michio Sugawara:- Major (Air Force); Section Chief, Army Aeronautical Department
 * Kumaichi Teramoto:- LtCol (Air Force), Officer attached; later Member in Army Aeronautical Department
 * Takeo Yasuda:- Officer attached to Army Air Technical Laboratories (MajGen)
 * Yoshitoshi Tokugawa:- Director of the Research Department and Director of Technical Training Department, Tokorozawa Army Aviation School