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The Katayama Detachment from 2nd Division, (consisting of the 15th Infantry Brigade, with 16th and 30th Infantry Regiments, and a field artillery battalion) fought small actions near Akiyama heights, or Heights 997 on 6–10 September 1939, in the closing stages of the Battle of Khalkhin Gol [2] 2nd Division (and the 4th Division) as part of ...
The 2nd Division (第2師団, Dai-Ni Shidan) is one of nine active divisions of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force. The division is subordinated to the Northern Army and is headquartered at Camp Asahikawa in Asahikawa, Hokkaidō. Its responsibility is the defense of North Western Hokkaidō. The division was raised on 18 January 1962.
The Konoe Imperial Guard of Japan was originally one Imperial Guards Division until the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War. It was expanded during World War II into three Guards Divisions: Konoe Imperial Guards Division; 1st Guards Division; 2nd Guards Division; 3rd Guards Division
As the IJA was an infantry force the most common type of division was the infantry division. Later four tank and one parachute division were formed. The first 18 infantry divisions were originally formed as square divisions , and after 1938, most of the remainder were formed as triangular divisions with the security divisions being binary ...
1st Anti-Aircraft Division (Japan) 2nd Division (Imperial Japanese Army) 3rd Division (Imperial Japanese Army) 4th Division (Imperial Japanese Army) 5th Division (Imperial Japanese Army) 6th Division (Imperial Japanese Army) 7th Division (Imperial Japanese Army) 8th Division (Imperial Japanese Army) 9th Division (Imperial Japanese Army)
Name Kanji Formed Dissolved Callsign Location, notes Provisional Air Division (Japan) 航空兵団: 1 August 1936: 1 June 1942-Tokyo-North China-Manchuria: 1st Air Division (Japan)
Major General Okamoto: Chief, Second Bureau (Intelligence Division), Army General Staff, at the time of the outbreak of the Pacific War. His staff consisted of Colonel Kotani, Navy officer Captain Onoda, and Mr.Yosano, Foreign Office Chancellor. Seizo Arisue: Chief, Second Bureau (Intelligence Division), Army General Staff
These units grouped not only infantry units, but usually included artillery, cavalry or armor, engineer and other support units as well. South Seas Detachment - a brigade-size force formed in 1941 to be the army unit used in the Japanese seizure of the South Pacific island groups of Wake, Guam and the Gilberts.