List of Japanese naval commanders

This is a list of Japanese naval commanders. Rank is assumed to be admiral unless stated otherwise.

See also: Imperial Japanese Navy admirals

Post-Restoration War

 * [Gombei] Yamamoto Gonnohyōe (1852-1933)
 * Ijuin Gorō (1852-1921)
 * Kawamura Sumiyoshi [Jungi] (1836-1904)
 * Nakamuta Kuranosuke (1837-1916)
 * Ito Sukemaro (1834-1906)
 * Enomoto Takeaki (1836-1908)

Sino-Japanese War

 * Tsuboi Kōzō [Hara Kōzō] (1843-1898)
 * Hidaka Sonojo (1848-1932)
 * Itoh Sukeyuki (1843-1914)
 * Sakamoto Toshiatsu (1858-1941)
 * Saigō Tsugumichi (1843-1902)

Russo-Japanese War

 * Saneyuki Akiyama (1868-1918)
 * Koichi Fuiji (1858-1926)
 * Shimamura Hayao (1858-1923)
 * Tōgō Heihachirō (1848-1934)
 * Kamimura Hikonojō (1849-1916)
 * Murakami Kakuichi (1862-1927)
 * Kato Kanji (1870-1939)
 * Akiyama Saneyuki (1868-1918)
 * Dewa Shigetō (1856-1930)
 * Kataoka Shichirō (1854-1920)
 * Misu Sotarō (1855-1921)
 * Uryū Sotokichi (1857-1937)
 * Kabayama Sukenori (1837-1922)
 * Matsumura Tatsuo (1868-1932)
 * Nashiba Tokioki (1850-1923)
 * Katō Tomosaburō (1861-1923)
 * Shibayama Yahachi (1850-1924)
 * Matsumoto Yawara (1860-c. 1925)

World War I

 * Tetsutaro Sato (1886-1942)
 * Yamashita Gentarō (1863-1931)
 * Yamaya Tanin (1866-1940)
 * Yashiro Rokurō (1860-1930)
 * Mitsumasa Yonai (1880-1948)

World War II

 * Hiroaki Abe (1889-1949)
 * Masafumi Arima (1895-1944)
 * Shigeru Fukudome (1891-1971)
 * Boshirō Hosogaya (1888-1964)
 * Matsuji Ijuin (1893-1944)
 * Toshihira Inoguchi (1896-1944)
 * Shigeyoshi Inoue (1889-1975)
 * Seiichi Itō (1890-1945)
 * Kakuji Kakuta (1890-1944)
 * Mineichi Koga (1885-1944)
 * Teruhisa Komatsu (1888-1970)
 * Nobutake Kondō (1886-1953)
 * Takeo Kurita (1889-1977)
 * Kameto Kuroshima (1893-1965)
 * Jinichi Kusaka (1889-1972)
 * Ryūnosuke Kusaka (1892-1971)
 * Gunichi Mikawa (1888-1981)
 * Osami Nagano (1880-1947)
 * Chūichi Nagumo (1886-1944)
 * Shōji Nishimura (1889-1944)
 * Tomoshige Samejima (1889-1969)
 * Satō Tetsutarō (1866-1942)
 * Shigetarō Shimada (1883-1976)
 * Kōichi Shiozawa (1881-1943)
 * Kantarō Suzuki (1868-1948)
 * Sōkichi Takagi (1893-19??)
 * Takeo Takagi (1892-1944)
 * Ibō Takahashi (1888-1947)
 * Takarabe Takeshi (1867-1949)
 * Sadatoshi Tomioka (1897-1970)
 * Soemu Toyoda (1885-1957)
 * Matome Ugaki (1890-1945)
 * Tamon Yamaguchi (1892-1942)
 * Isoroku Yamamoto (1884-1943)