List of World War II aces from Japan

This is a list of fighter aces in World War II from Japan, as officially credited by the Imperial Japanese government. For other countries see List of World War II aces by country. IJN = Imperial Japanese Navy. IJA = Imperial Japanese Army. KIA = killed in action.

C

 * Jirō Chōno

K

 * Susumu Kajinami (KIA 7/08/44)
 * Enji Kakimoto
 * Morichiki Kamae
 * Teizo Kamemaru
 * Keishu Kamihara
 * Sumi Kamito (KIA 4?02/45)
 * Moritsugu Kanai
 * Teizo Kanamaru
 * Takeo Kanamaru (KIA 29/11/44)
 * Nobuo Kanazawa
 * Masao Kanbara
 * Saiji Kanda
 * Masashi Kaneko
 * Tadashi Kaneko
 * Naoshi Kanno (ja:菅野直)


 * Tomkazu Kasai
 * Isamu Kashiide (ja:樫出勇)
 * Shirotaro Kashima
 * Kanichi Kashimura
 * Katsue Kato
 * Kenji Kato
 * Kunimichi Kato
 * Tateo Katō (加藤建夫)
 * Kiyomi Katsuki
 * Kosuke Kawahara
 * Akira Kawakita
 * Koki Kawamoto
 * Masajiro Kawamoto
 * Masajiro Kawato
 * Tetsuo Kikuchi
 * Takaji Kimura
 * Sadamitsu Kimura
 * Katsuaki Kira
 * Saburo Kitahata
 * Teruhiko Kobayashi
 * Hohei Kobayashi
 * Yoshinao Kodaira
 * Sada Koga
 * Kiyoto Koga
 * Fujikazu Koizumi
 * Shizuo Kojima
 * Takeichi Kokubun (KIA 28/06/44)
 * Sadamu Komachi
 * Masaichi Kondō
 * Kensui Kono
 * Kotaro Koyae
 * Osamu Kudō
 * Shigetoshi Kudo
 * Juzo Kuramoto
 * Shiro Kuratori
 * Yasuhiko Kuroe (ja:黒江保彦)
 * Toshio Kuroiwa
 * Tameyoshi Kuroki
 * Seiichi Kurosawa (KIA 9/06/45)
 * Yoshiro Kuwabara

M

 * Hideo Maeda
 * Koichi Magara
 * Akio Matsuba
 * Jiro Matsuda
 * Masao Masuyama
 * Morio Matsui (KIA 18/05/44)
 * Susumu Matsuki
 * Momoto Matsumura
 * Hidenori Matsunaga
 * Eitoku Matsunaga
 * Hidenori Matsunaga (KIA 23/4/45)
 * Kagemitsu Matsuo
 * Toshio Matsuura
 * Yoshimi Minami
 * Yoshijiro Minegishi
 * Masoa Miyamaru
 * Goro Miyamoto
 * Zenjiro Miyano
 * Masahiro Mitsuda
 * Kazunori Miyabe
 * Hideo Miyabe
 * Isamu Miyazaki (KIA 4/09/44)
 * Gitaro Miyazaki
 * Isamu Mochizuki
 * Mitsugu Mori
 * Hideo Morinio
 * Yutaka Morioka (KIA 25/12/44)
 * Toyoo Moriura
 * Noboru Mune (KIA 13/04/45)
 * Kazuo Muranaka
 * Kaneyoshi "Kinsuke" Muto (ja:武藤金義)

N

 * Kiichi Nagano
 * Yoshimitsu Naka (KIA 419/08/44)
 * Yoshihiko Nakada
 * Kenji Nakagawa
 * Tadashi Nakajima (75)
 * Bunkichi Nakajima
 * Kunimori Nakakariya
 * Wataru Nakamichi
 * Saburo Nakamura (KIA 3/02/44)
 * Yoshio Nakamura
 * Matsumi Nakano
 * Katsujiro Nakano
 * Tomoji Nakano
 * Masayuki Nakase (KIA 1/01/45)
 * Yoshiichi Nakaya
 * Shigeru Nakazaki
 * Kiyoshi Namai
 * Mochifumi Nangō
 * Shigeo Nango
 * Yashiro Nashiguchi
 * Nobuji Negishi (KIA 22/04/45)
 * ? Nishikyo
 * Hannoshin Nishio
 * Shigetsune Nishioka
 * Masaharu Nishiwaki (KIA 8/12/44)
 * Hiroyoshi Nishizawa (西沢広義) (103)
 * Yoshinori Noguchi
 * Takeshi Noguchi
 * Akiyoshi Nomura

O

 * Tsutae Obara
 * Kiichi (Ki-ichi) Oda
 * Noritsura Odaka
 * Yojiro Ofusa
 * Koichi Ogata (KIA 8/08/44)
 * Naoyuki Ogata
 * Makoto Ogawa
 * Nobuo Ogiya (ja:荻谷信男)
 * Mitsuo Ogura
 * Ryoji Ohara
 * Hideo Oishi
 * Yoshio Oishi (KIA 12/12/44)
 * Kenji Okabe
 * Takashi Okamoto
 * Juzo Okamoto
 * Hiroshi Okano
 * Yoshio Oki (4/05/45)
 * Misao Okubu
 * Takeo Okumura (奥村武雄)
 * Shokichi Omori
 * Shigetaka Ōmori
 * Hiroshi Onazaki (6/09/45)
 * Akira Onozaki
 * Megumu Ono
 * Satoru Ono
 * Takeyoshi Ono
 * Takashi Oshibuchi
 * Toshio Ota (Devil of Rabaul) (太田敏夫)
 * Kyushiro Otake
 * Nakakazu Ozaki (ja:尾崎中和)
 * Yukiharu Ozeki

S

 * Shogo Saito (KIA 21/09/44)
 * Chiyoshi Saito
 * Saburo Saito
 * Toshio Sakagawa
 * Saburo Sakai (ja:坂井三郎)
 * Iori Sakai
 * Takao Sakano
 * Junichi Sasai (ja:笹井醇一)
 * Tomokazu Sasai
 * Yoshiichi Sasaki
 * Isamu Sasaki
 * Masao Sasakibara
 * Hitoshi Sato
 * Gonnoshin Sato (KIA 11/04/45)
 * Mitsugu Sawada
 * Eiji Seino
 * Hiroshi Sekiguchi
 * Kiyoshi Sekiya (KIA 9/07/44)
 * Hiroshi Shibagaki
 * Rikio (Rikia) Shibata
 * Sekizen Shibayama
 * Shigeru Shibukawa
 * Yoshio Shiga
 * Masami Shiga
 * Yasuhiro Shigematsu
 * Katsuma Shigemi
 * Kenji Shimada
 * Masaaki Shimakawa
 * Kiyoshi Shimizu (KIA 26/01/45)
 * Kazuo Shimizu
 * Takeshi Shimizu
 * Yukio Shimokawa
 * Hiromichi Shinohara (ja:篠原弘道)
 * Toshio Shiozura
 * Yoshijiro Shirahama
 * Nagao Shirai
 * Toshihisa Shirakawa
 * Ayao Shirane
 * Naoharu Shiromoto
 * Hironojo Shishimoto
 * Tadashi Shono
 * Tokuya Sudo
 * Toshiyuki Sueda
 * Kazuo Sugino (ja:杉野計雄)
 * Shigeo Sugio
 * Shoichi Sugita (ja:杉田庄一)
 * Teruo Sugiyama
 * Motonari Suho
 * Tadao Sumi
 * Goichi Sumino
 * Minoru Suzuki
 * Hiroshi Suzuki
 * Kiyonobu Suzuki

T

 * Shigeru Takahashi
 * Kenichi Takahashi
 * Katsutaro Takahashi
 * Takeo Takahashi
 * Kaoru Takaiwa
 * Keiji Takamiya (KIA 5/08/44)
 * Toraichi Takatsuka
 * Shogo Takeuchi
 * Hiroshi Takiguchi (KIA 8/09/44)
 * Kuniyoshi Tanaka
 * Minpo Tanaka
 * Jiro Tanaka
 * Shinsaku Tanaka
 * Masao Taniguchi
 * Takeo Tanimizu (谷水竹雄)
 * Mitsuyoshi Tarui(KIA 6/02/45)
 * Tadao Tashiro
 * Nobuo Tokushige
 * Yoshihisa Tokuji
 * Kosuke Tsubone
 * Ko Tsuchiya
 * Kazuo Tsunoda

Abbreviations

 * "KIA" in Notes means Killed in action (dates are included where possible).
 * "KIFA" in Notes means Killed in Flying Accident.
 * "MIA" in Notes means Missing in action.
 * "WIA" in Notes means Wounded in action leading to death which, in some cases, may have occurred months later.
 * "POW" in Notes means Prisoner of War.