List of Imperial Japanese Navy admirals
| Imperial Japanese Armed Forces |
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| Administration |
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| Rank insignia |
| History |
The following is a list of the Admirals of the Imperial Japanese Navy during its existence from 1868 until 1945.
Admirals of the Fleet
This colour along with the * (asterisk) indicates that the promotion was posthumously.
| Name | Picture | Date of Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Saigō Jūdō |  |
20 January 1898 |
| Itō Sukeyuki |  |
31 January 1906 |
| Yoshika Inoue |  |
31 October 1911 |
| Tōgō Heihachirō |  |
21 April 1913 |
| Prince Arisugawa Takehito |  |
7 July 1913 |
| Ijūin Gorō |  |
26 May 1917 |
| Prince Higashifushimi Yorihito |  |
27 June 1922* |
| Shimamura Hayao |  |
8 January 1923* |
| Katō Tomosaburō |  |
24 August 1923 |
| Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu |  |
27 May 1932 |
| Isoroku Yamamoto | File:Isoroku Yamamoto.jpg | 18 April 1943* |
| Osami Nagano |  |
21 June 1943 |
| Mineichi Koga |  |
31 March 1944* |
Admirals
This colour along with the * (asterisk) indicates that the promotion was posthumously.
| Name | Picture | Date of Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Kabayama Sukenori |  |
10 May 1895 |
| Yamamoto Gonnohyōe |  |
6 June 1904 |
| Kawamura Sumiyoshi |  |
12 August 1904* |
| Samejima Kazunori |  |
13 November 1905 |
| Shibayama Yahachi |  |
13 November 1905 |
| Hidaka Sōnojō |  |
7 August 1908 |
| Kataoka Shichirō |  |
1 December 1910 |
| Kamimura Hikonojō |  |
1 December 1910 |
| Dewa Shigetō |  |
9 July 1912 |
| Uryū Sotokichi |  |
16 October 1912 |
| Saitō Makoto |  |
16 October 1912 |
| Misu Sotarō |  |
25 September 1913 |
| Yoshimatsu Shigetarō |  |
1 December 1916 |
| Fujii Kōichi |  |
1 December 1916 |
| Yashirō Rokurō |  |
2 July 1918 |
| Katō Sadakichi |  |
2 July 1918 |
| Yamashita Gentarō |  |
2 July 1918 |
| Nawa Matahachirō |  |
2 July 1918 |
| Murakami Kakuichi |  |
2 July 1918 |
| Arima Ryōkitsu |  |
25 November 1919 |
| Yamaya Tanin |  |
25 November 1919 |
| Takarabe Takeshi |  |
25 November 1919 |
| Kuroi Teijirō |  |
16 August 1920 |
| Tochinai Sojirō |  |
16 August 1920 |
| Nomaguchi Kaneo |  |
16 August 1920 |
| Suzuki Kantarō |  |
3 August 1923 |
| Isamu Takeshita |  |
3 August 1923 |
| Oguri Kozaburō |  |
3 August 1923 |
| Okada Keisuke |  |
11 June 1924 |
| Ide Kenji |  |
11 June 1924 |
| Katō Hiroharu |  |
1 April 1927 |
| Abo Kiyokazu |  |
1 April 1927 |
| Hyakutake Saburō |  |
2 April 1928 |
| Taniguchi Naomi |  |
2 April 1928 |
| Yamamoto Eisuke |  |
1 April 1931 |
| Ōsumi Mineo |  |
1 April 1931 |
| Yamanashi Katsunoshin |  |
1 April 1932 |
| Kobayashi Seizō |  |
1 March 1933 |
| Nomura Kichisaburō |  |
1 March 1933 |
| Nakamura Ryōzō |  |
1 March 1934 |
| Suetsugu Nobumasa |  |
1 March 1934 |
| Takahashi Sankichi |  |
1 April 1936 |
| Fujita Hisanori |  |
1 April 1936 |
| Yonai Mitsumasa |  |
1 April 1937 |
| Hyakutake Gengo |  |
1 April 1937 |
| Katō Takayoshi |  |
1 April 1939 |
| Hasegawa Kiyoshi |  |
1 April 1939 |
| Oikawa Koshirō |  |
15 November 1939 |
| Shiozawa Kōichi |  |
15 November 1939 |
| Yoshida Zengo |  |
15 November 1940 |
| Shimada Shigetarō |  |
15 November 1940 |
| Toyoda Teijirō |  |
4 April 1941 |
| Toyoda Soemu |  |
18 September 1941 |
| Kondō Nobutake |  |
29 April 1943 |
| Takasu Shirō |  |
1 March 1944 |
| Nomura Naokuni |  |
1 March 1944 |
| Sawamoto Yoriō |  |
1 March 1944 |
| Endō Yoshikazu |  |
3 May 1944* |
| Nagumo Chūichi |  |
8 July 1944* |
| Takagi Takeo |  |
8 July 1944* |
| Yamagata Seigō |  |
17 March 1945* |
| Itō Seiichi |  |
7 April 1945* |
| Tsukahara Nishizō |  |
15 May 1945 |
| Inoue Shigeyoshi |  |
15 May 1945 |
Vice Admirals
This colour along with the * (asterisk) indicates that the promotion was posthumously.
| Name | Picture | Date of Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Enomoto Takeaki |  |
14 January 1874 |
| Itō Sukemarō |  |
21 November 1878 |
| Nakamuta Kuranosuke |  |
21 November 1878 |
| Maki Nagayoshi |  |
29 June 1885 |
| Nire Kagenori |  |
29 June 1885 |
| Akamatsu Noriyoshi |  |
26 September 1887 |
| Itō Toshiyoshi |  |
24 September 1890 |
| Abo Kiyoyasu |  |
24 September 1890 |
| Matsumura Junzō |  |
23 July 1891 |
| Arichi Shinanojō |  |
12 December 1892 |
| Aiura Norimichi |  |
16 February 1895 |
| Tsuboi Kōzō |  |
26 February 1896 |
| Tsunoda Hidematsu |  |
20 May 1900 |
| Morooka Yoriyuki | — |
24 April 1902 |
| Arima Shinichi |  |
24 May 1902 |
| Kurooka Takewaki |  |
5 September 1903 |
| Kawahara Yōichi |  |
5 September 1903 |
| Matsunaga Yuujuu | — |
5 September 1903 |
| Onomoto Tomomichi | — |
12 January 1905 |
| Arai Aritsura |  |
23 September 1905 |
| Kimotsuke Kaneyuki |  |
23 September 1905 |
| Miura Isao |  |
23 September 1905 |
| Inoue Yoshitomo | — |
13 November 1905 |
| Uemura Nagataka | — |
13 November 1905 |
| Uchida Masatoshi | — |
13 November 1905 |
| Kamimura Shonōjō | — |
13 November 1905 |
| Itō Yoshigorō | — |
13 November 1905 |
| Hashimoto Masaaki | — |
13 November 1905 |
| Mukaiyama Shinkichi | — |
13 November 1905 |
| Sakamoto Toshiatsu |  |
13 November 1905 |
| Yamauchi Masuji | — |
13 November 1905 |
| Tōgō Masamichi |  |
30 November 1905 |
| Nashiba Tokioki |  |
12 March 1907 |
| Mochihara Heiji | — |
12 March 1907 |
| Kano Yunoshin | — |
12 March 1907 |
| Tomioka Sadayasu |  |
12 March 1907 |
| Nakamizo Tokutarō | — |
12 March 1907 |
| Ogura Byōichirō |  |
28 August 1908 |
| Yamada Hikohachi |  |
28 August 1908 |
| Taketomo Kunikane | — |
27 August 1909 |
| Tamari Chikataka | — |
1 December 1909 |
| Kitakoga Takeichirō | — |
1 December 1909 |
| Teragaki Izō |  |
1 December 1909 |
| Matsumoto Kazu |  |
1 December 1909 |
| Nakao Yu | — |
1 December 1910 |
| Ijichi Hikojirō |  |
1 December 1910 |
| Saitō Koshi | — |
17 April 1911 |
| Ijichi Suetaka | — |
5 June 1911 |
| Sakamoto Hajime | — |
5 June 1911 |
| Miyaoka Naoki | — |
1 December 1911 |
| Nomoto Tsunaakira | — |
1 December 1911 |
| Koizumi Kōtarō | — |
1 December 1912 |
| Tsuchiya Tamotsu | — |
1 December 1912 |
| Kawashima Reijirō | — |
7 January 1913 |
| Egashira Yasutarō |  |
7 January 1913 |
| Wada Kensuke | — |
31 May 1913 |
| Nishi Shinrokurō | — |
25 September 1913 |
| Ishibashi Hajime |  |
1 December 1914 |
| Sendō Taketeru | — |
1 December 1914 |
| Mori Yoshitarō | — |
1 December 1914 |
| Kamaya Tadamichi | — |
1 December 1914 |
| Fujimoto Hideshirō | — |
1 December 1914 |
| Kamiizumi Tokuya |  |
1 December 1914 |
| Yamagata Bunzō | — |
1 December 1915 |
| Yajima Junkichi | — |
1 December 1915 |
| Yoshimi Kenkai | — |
1 December 1915 |
| Eguchi Rinroku | — |
13 December 1915 |
| Tsuchiya Mitsukane | — |
13 December 1915 |
| Itō Otojirō | — |
13 December 1915 |
| Sekino Kenkichi | — |
1 December 1916 |
| Tanaka Morihide | — |
1 December 1916 |
| Tōgō Kichitarō | — |
1 December 1916 |
| Kamimura Osuke | — |
1 December 1916 |
| Satō Tetsutarō |  |
1 December 1916 |
| Matsumura Tatsuo |  |
1 December 1916 |
| Yamaguchi Kujurō | — |
1 June 1917 |
| Iwamura Toshitake |  |
1 December 1917 |
| Chisaka Tomojirō |  |
1 December 1917 |
| Nakano Naoe |  |
1 December 1917 |
| Akiyama Saneyuki |  |
1 December 1917 |
| Ogasawara Naganari |  |
1 December 1918 |
| Kimura Takeshi | — |
1 December 1918 |
| Mori Etsutarō | — |
1 December 1918 |
| Yamanaka Shibakichi | — |
1 December 1918 |
| Tadokorō Hiromi | — |
1 December 1918 |
| Moriyama Keizaburō | — |
1 December 1918 |
| Yamaji Kazuyoshi |  |
1 December 1918 |
| Saneyoshi Yasuzumi |  |
23 September 1919 |
| Kamaya Rokurō | — |
1 December 1919 |
| Asano Masayasu | — |
1 December 1919 |
| Nagata Yasujirō |  |
1 December 1919 |
| Funakoshi Kajishirō | — |
1 December 1919 |
| Horiuchi Saburō |  |
1 December 1919 |
| Nunome Mitsuzō | — |
1 December 1920 |
| Mukai Yaichi | — |
1 December 1920 |
| Kawahara Kesatarō | — |
1 December 1920 |
| Saitō Hanroku | — |
1 December 1920 |
| Yoshida Masujirō |  |
1 December 1920 |
| Satō Kōzō |  |
1 December 1920 |
| Yoshida Kiyokaze | — |
1 December 1920 |
| Yamaoka Toyokazu | — |
1 December 1921 |
| Yamaguchi Ei | — |
1 December 1921 |
| Shimomura Nobutarō |  |
1 December 1921 |
| Matsumura Jun'ichi | — |
1 December 1921 |
| Yoshioka Hansaku |  |
1 December 1921 |
| Iida Hisatsune |  |
1 December 1921 |
| Nakajima Suketomo | — |
1 December 1921 |
| Tanaka Kotarō |  |
1 June 1922 |
| Kawada Katsuji | — |
1 June 1922 |
| Saitō Shichigorō | — |
1 December 1922 |
| Takeuchi Shigetoshi | — |
1 December 1922 |
| Nakazato Shigetsugu | — |
1 December 1922 |
| Yamauchi Shirō | — |
10 November 1923* |
| Kobayashi Kenzō | — |
1 December 1923 |
| Kuwashima Shōzō | — |
1 December 1923 |
| Kaneda Hidetarō | — |
1 December 1923 |
| Fujiwara Eizaburō | — |
1 December 1923 |
| Furukawa Shinzaburō | — |
1 December 1923 |
| Yoshikawa Yoshihira | — |
1 December 1923 |
| Masaki Yoshimoto |  |
1 December 1924 |
| Uchida Kosaburō | — |
1 December 1924 |
| Ōtani Koshirō | — |
1 December 1924 |
| Tajiri Tadatsugu | — |
1 December 1924 |
| Matsushita Tojirō | — |
1 December 1924 |
| Matsumura Kikuo |  |
1 December 1924 |
| Yuchi Teikan | — |
20 December 1924 |
| Takeda Hideo | — |
20 December 1924 |
| Ichikawa Kiyojirō | — |
20 December 1924 |
| Kamo Iwao | — |
20 December 1924 |
| Irisawa Toshio | — |
20 December 1924 |
| Nakajima Yosohachi | — |
20 December 1924 |
| Funaboshi Zenya | — |
20 December 1924 |
| Kisaki Kosuke | — |
20 December 1924 |
| Ohashi Sei | — |
20 December 1924 |
| Hiratsuka Tamotsu | — |
20 December 1924 |
| Mizutani Chimakichi | — |
20 December 1924 |
| Miyakawa Kunimoto | — |
20 December 1924 |
| Iwabe Suetaka | — |
20 December 1924 |
| Okazaki Teigō | — |
20 December 1924 |
| Masui Keijirō | — |
20 December 1924 |
| Ikeda Iwasaburō | — |
20 December 1924 |
| Iida Nobutarō |  |
1 December 1925 |
| Shirane Kumazō | — |
1 December 1925 |
| Inutsuka Tarō | — |
1 December 1925 |
| Komatsu Naomoto | — |
1 December 1925 |
| Shikama Kōsuke | — |
1 December 1925 |
| Tosu Tamaki | — |
1 December 1925 |
| Shimizu Tokuichi | — |
1 December 1925 |
| Mizutani Mitsutarō | — |
15 December 1925 |
| Kiyokawa Jun'ichi | — |
1 December 1926 |
| Nagasawa Naotarō | — |
1 December 1926 |
| Yamashita Gihachirō | — |
1 December 1926 |
| Ogura Yoshiaki | — |
1 December 1927 |
| Oyamada Shigezō | — |
1 December 1927 |
| Kanesaka Takashi | — |
1 December 1927 |
| Furukawa Shirō | — |
1 December 1927 |
| Hatano Sadao | — |
1 December 1927 |
| Kawai Shuntarō | — |
1 December 1927 |
| Andō Masataka |  |
10 December 1928 |
| Ueda Yoshitake | — |
10 December 1928 |
| Ugawa Wataru | — |
10 December 1928 |
| Sakonji Seizō |  |
10 December 1928 |
| Tateno Tokujirō | — |
10 December 1928 |
| Hara Kanjirō |  |
10 December 1928 |
| Kishina Masao | — |
30 November 1929 |
| Ōminato Naotarō |  |
30 November 1929 |
| Shima Yukichi | — |
30 November 1929 |
| Taniguchi Yoshisada | — |
30 November 1929 |
| Yonemura Sueki | — |
30 November 1929 |
| Kishimoto Nobuta | — |
30 November 1929 |
| Sugi Masato | — |
30 November 1929 |
| Araki Jirō |  |
1 December 1930 |
| Yasumi Saburō |  |
1 December 1930 |
| Imamura Shinjirō | — |
1 December 1930 |
| Ushimaru Fukusaku | — |
1 December 1930 |
| Kuroda Takuma | — |
1 December 1930 |
| Ijichi Kiyohirō | — |
1 December 1931 |
| Usui Kuni | — |
1 December 1931 |
| Shigeoka Nobujirō |  |
1 December 1931 |
| Hamano Eijirō |  |
1 December 1931 |
| Matsuura Matsumi | — |
1 December 1931 |
| Matsuyama Shigeru |  |
1 December 1931 |
| Yuchi Shusei | — |
1 December 1931 |
| Yoshioka Yasusada | — |
1 December 1931 |
| Edahara Yurikazu | — |
1 December 1932 |
| Kawano Tōgō | — |
1 December 1932 |
| Terajima Ken |  |
1 December 1932 |
| Hajime Matsushita |  |
1 December 1932 |
| Onodera Hiromu | — |
1 December 1932 |
| Murata Toyotarō | — |
1 December 1932 |
| Uemura Shigeo | — |
1 December 1932 |
| Fujiyoshi Akira | — |
15 November 1933 |
| Teikichi Hori |  |
15 November 1933 |
| Ichimura Hisao | — |
15 November 1933 |
| Shigeru Matsushita | — |
15 November 1933 |
| Tokusaburō Ono | — |
15 November 1933 |
| Gotō Akira | — |
15 November 1934 |
| Tsugumatsu Inoue |  |
15 November 1934 |
| Kenji Maebara | — |
15 November 1934 |
| Yoshiyuki Niiyama | — |
15 November 1934 |
| Shigeoki Nobeta | — |
15 November 1934 |
| Hiroshi Ono | — |
15 November 1934 |
| Giichi Suzuki | — |
15 November 1934 |
| Nobufusa Wada | — |
15 November 1934 |
| Kobayashi Seizaburō | — |
15 November 1934 |
| Tsuda Shizue | — |
15 November 1934 |
| Arima Yutaka |  |
15 November 1934 |
| Sakano Tsuneyoshi | — |
15 November 1934 |
| Yoshitomo Aritsuka | — |
15 November 1934 |
| Muneshige Ueda |  |
15 November 1934 |
| Anno Kiyoshi |  |
6 April 1935* |
| Giichirō Kawamura | — |
15 November 1935 |
| Hoichi Wanami | — |
15 November 1935 |
| Hamada Kichijirō | — |
15 November 1935 |
| Hara Keitarō |  |
15 November 1935 |
| Idemitsu Manbei | — |
15 November 1935 |
| Inoue Chōji | — |
15 November 1935 |
| Nakamura Kamezaburō | — |
15 November 1935 |
| Ono Yaichi | — |
15 November 1935 |
| Yamashita Kanemitsu | — |
15 November 1935 |
| Masayuki Yamanaka | — |
15 November 1935 |
| Arichi Jugorō | — |
1 December 1936 |
| Sugisaka Teijirō | — |
1 December 1936 |
| Hibino Masaharu |  |
1 December 1936 |
| Kikuno Shigeru | — |
1 December 1936 |
| Satō Saburō | — |
1 December 1936 |
| Sumiyama Tokutarō | — |
1 December 1936 |
| Wada Hideho |  |
1 December 1936 |
| Tatsuo Furuichi | — |
1 December 1936 |
| Hiroshi Kawahara | — |
1 December 1936 |
| Nagaaki Ujiie | — |
1 December 1936 |
| Sonosuke Kobayashi | — |
1 December 1937 |
| Hirata Noboru | — |
1 December 1937 |
| Katagiri Eikichi |  |
1 December 1937 |
| Maeda Masaichi | — |
1 December 1937 |
| Otagaki Tomisaburō | — |
1 December 1937 |
| Wada Senzō | — |
1 December 1937 |
| Hara Gorō | — |
1 December 1937 |
| Ichirō Kaneda | — |
1 December 1937 |
| Muneo Yoshinari | — |
1 December 1937 |
| Umatarō Tanimoto |  |
15 November 1938 |
| Furihata Satoshi | — |
15 November 1938 |
| Hoshino Shuichi | — |
15 November 1938 |
| Kawase Yoshishige | — |
15 November 1938 |
| Matsuzaki Iori | — |
15 November 1938 |
| Noda Kiyoshi |  |
15 November 1938 |
| Shimomura Shosuke | — |
15 November 1938 |
| Satō Ichirō | — |
15 November 1938 |
| Kōichi Hanashima | — |
15 November 1938 |
| Iwao Hiraoka | — |
15 November 1938 |
| Boshirō Hosogaya |  |
15 November 1939 |
| Masaichi Niimi |  |
15 November 1939 |
| Mitsumi Shimizu |  |
15 November 1939 |
| Kaneo Sunagawa | — |
15 November 1939 |
| Ibō Takahashi |  |
15 November 1939 |
| Sugiyama Toshisuke | — |
15 November 1939 |
| Hirose Masatsune | — |
15 November 1939 |
| Kondo Eijirō | — |
15 November 1939 |
| Kumaoka Yuzuru | — |
15 November 1939 |
| Mito Shunzō | — |
15 November 1939 |
| Miyata Giichi | — |
15 November 1939 |
| Iwamura Seiichi |  |
15 November 1939 |
| Koike Shirō | — |
15 November 1939 |
| Togari Takamoto |  |
15 November 1939 |
| Hikokichi Asakuma | — |
15 November 1939 |
| Konomu Mishuku | — |
15 November 1939 |
| Ishichi Tsuzuki | — |
15 November 1939 |
| Sonoda Shigeru | — |
7 February 1940* |
| Kiyoshi Hara | — |
15 November 1940 |
| Teruhisa Komatsu |  |
15 November 1940 |
| Jin'ichi Kusaka |  |
15 November 1940 |
| Gun'ichi Mikawa |  |
15 November 1940 |
| Denshichi Ōkawachi |  |
15 November 1940 |
| Masakichi Okuma | — |
15 November 1940 |
| Jisaburō Ozawa |  |
15 November 1940 |
| Ikuta Sakamoto | — |
15 November 1940 |
| Rokuzō Sugiyama |  |
15 November 1940 |
| Hidehiko Ukita | — |
15 November 1940 |
| Kōki Yamamoto | — |
15 November 1940 |
| Horie Rokurō | — |
15 November 1940 |
| Myoga Hideo | — |
15 November 1940 |
| Koori Hidesaburō | — |
15 November 1940 |
| Ōta Taiji | — |
15 November 1940 |
| Shishido Yoshinobu | — |
15 November 1940 |
| Yukitake Nikaido | — |
15 November 1940 |
| Tadatake Sakurai | — |
15 November 1940 |
| Ryūtarō Shibuya | — |
15 November 1940 |
| Tsunejirō Ishii |  |
15 November 1940 |
| Hikojirō Suga |  |
5 February 1941* |
| Kakusaburō Makita | — |
15 September 1941 |
| Shirō Kawase |  |
15 October 1941 |
| Masami Kobayashi |  |
15 October 1941 |
| Shinichi Moizumi | — |
15 October 1941 |
| Tomoshige Samejima |  |
15 October 1941 |
| Tamazō Sukigara | — |
15 October 1941 |
| Eiji Gotō | — |
15 October 1941 |
| Higuchi Shuichirō | — |
15 October 1941 |
| Matsuki Masukichi | — |
15 October 1941 |
| Takasu Sanjirō | — |
15 October 1941 |
| Yasuo Inoue | — |
15 October 1941 |
| Kakusaburō Makita | — |
15 October 1941 |
| Eijirō Matsuura | — |
15 October 1941 |
| Daisuke Soejima | — |
15 October 1941 |
| Michitarō Totsuka |  |
15 October 1941 |
| Minoru Tayui | — |
15 October 1941 |
| Misao Wada |  |
15 October 1941 |
| Hiromitsu Yanagihara | — |
15 October 1941 |
| Shizuka Gosho | — |
15 October 1941 |
| Kinya Hokotate | — |
15 October 1941 |
| Yoshihiko Mito | — |
15 October 1941 |
| Shigeaki Nabeshima | — |
15 October 1941 |
| Sukeyoshi Yatsushirō | — |
1 February 1942* |
| Masao Kanazawa |  |
1 May 1942 |
| Tetsuri Kobayashi | — |
1 May 1942 |
| Takeo Kurita |  |
1 May 1942 |
| Toraō Kuwabara | — |
1 May 1942 |
| Nobukazu Oku | — |
1 May 1942 |
| Moriji Takeda | — |
1 May 1942 |
| Kabashima Setsuo | — |
1 May 1942 |
| Ryōzō Fukuda | — |
1 May 1942 |
| Keijirō Goga | — |
1 May 1942 |
| Jirō Matsunaga | — |
1 May 1942 |
| Ichirō Ono | — |
1 May 1942 |
| Tamon Yamaguchi |  |
5 June 1942* |
| Aritomo Gotō |  |
12 October 1942* |
| Ayao Inagaki | — |
15 September 1942* |
| Hiroaki Abe |  |
1 November 1942 |
| Kasuke Abe | — |
1 November 1942 |
| Katsuo Abe | — |
1 November 1942 |
| Shigeru Fukudome |  |
1 November 1942 |
| Chūichi Hara |  |
1 November 1942 |
| Kenzaburō Hara | — |
1 November 1942 |
| Shigenori Horiuchi | — |
1 November 1942 |
| Kakuji Kakuta | File:Kakuji Kakuta 1938-1939.jpg | 1 November 1942 |
| Shigeyoshi Miwa |  |
1 November 1942 |
| Takasumi Oka |  |
1 November 1942 |
| Matome Ugaki |  |
1 November 1942 |
| Torahiko Nakajima | — |
1 November 1942 |
| Toshihisa Nakamura |  |
1 November 1942 |
| Rokurō Soma | — |
1 November 1942 |
| Arata Oka | — |
1 November 1942 |
| Senkichi Ozawa | — |
1 November 1942 |
| Hisatake Suzuki | — |
1 November 1942 |
| Yoshitatsu Yasuda |  |
2 January 1943* |
| Yasuo Satō |  |
3 March 1943* |
| Kōichirō Hatakeyama | — |
1 May 1943 |
| Kumeichi Hiraoka | — |
1 May 1943 |
| Fukuji Kishi | — |
1 May 1943 |
| Takijirō Ōnishi | File:ViceAdmiralTakijiroOnishi.jpg | 1 May 1943 |
| Kiyohide Shima |  |
1 May 1943 |
| Yoshio Suzuki | — |
1 May 1943 |
| Ruitarō Fujita | — |
1 May 1943 |
| Benichi Jinbo | — |
1 May 1943 |
| Katsumi Shimomura | — |
1 May 1943 |
| Kanji Ugaki | — |
1 May 1943 |
| Seisaku Wakabayashi | — |
1 May 1943 |
| Risaburō Fujita | — |
1 May 1943 |
| Genzō Satō | — |
1 May 1943 |
| Tomoyuki Senoo | — |
1 May 1943 |
| Aiki Obata | — |
1 May 1943 |
| Kanae Iwamoto | — |
1 May 1943 |
| Teruō Akiyama | — |
6 July 1943* |
| Shunji Isaki |  |
12 July 1943* |
| Tadashige Daigo |  |
1 November 1943 |
| Sunichi Kira | — |
1 November 1943 |
| Minoru Maeda | — |
1 November 1943 |
| Kuninori Marumo | — |
1 November 1943 |
| Sadaichi Matsunaga | — |
1 November 1943 |
| Shōji Nishimura |  |
1 November 1943 |
| Yoshikatsu Saio | — |
1 November 1943 |
| Takeo Tada | — |
1 November 1943 |
| Kinpei Teraoka | — |
1 November 1943 |
| Gisaburō Yamaguchi | — |
1 November 1943 |
| Yaichirō Shibata | — |
1 November 1943 |
| Kiyoshi Shiroya | — |
1 November 1943 |
| Zenshirō Hoshina |  |
1 November 1943 |
| Yoshimasa Nakahara |  |
1 November 1943 |
| Seizaburō Nakajima | — |
1 November 1943 |
| Munetaka Sakamaki | — |
1 November 1943 |
| Sakae Tokunaga | — |
1 November 1943 |
| Isao Akasaka | — |
1 November 1943 |
| Shinzaburō Hosotani | — |
1 November 1943 |
| Todomu Nakamura | — |
1 November 1943 |
| Tokutarō Wazumi | — |
1 November 1943 |
| Keiji Shibazaki |  |
25 November 1943* |
| Monzō Akiyama |  |
6 February 1944* |
| Michiyuki Yamada | — |
6 February 1944* |
| Kiichi Hasegawa |  |
29 March 1944* |
| Gonta Ueno |  |
31 March 1944* |
| Kōsō Abe |  |
1 May 1944 |
| Naosaburō Irifune | — |
1 May 1944 |
| Kenzō Itō | — |
1 May 1944 |
| Kyūji Kubo | — |
1 May 1944 |
| Ryūnosuke Kusaka |  |
1 May 1944 |
| Sentarō Ōmori |  |
1 May 1944 |
| Fumio Shimizu | — |
1 May 1944 |
| Shigeaki Yamasaki | — |
1 May 1944 |
| Seiichi Harada | — |
1 May 1944 |
| Suguru Tamura | — |
1 May 1944 |
| Shinichi Ichise | — |
1 May 1944 |
| Yoshiharu Kobayashi | — |
1 May 1944 |
| Matsuo Morizumi | — |
1 May 1944 |
| Tatsu Sawa | — |
1 May 1944 |
| Masumi Yamaguchi | — |
1 May 1944 |
| Masaki Ogata | — |
3 May 1944* |
| Matsuji Ijūin |  |
24 May 1944* |
| Tei Monzen | — |
9 June 1944* |
| Hideo Yano |  |
8 July 1944* |
| Yasunoshin Itō | — |
8 July 1944* |
| Ko Nakagawa | — |
8 July 1944* |
| Takehisa Tsujimura | — |
8 July 1944* |
| Ichimatsu Takahashi | — |
4 August 1944* |
| Giichirō Nakahara | — |
7 August 1944* |
| Sadamichi Kajioka |  |
12 September 1944* |
| Masafumi Arima |  |
15 October 1944* |
| Shintarō Hashimoto |  |
15 October 1944 |
| Osamu Imamura | — |
15 October 1944 |
| Shigeru Ishikawa | — |
15 October 1944 |
| Kazuma Kondō | — |
15 October 1944 |
| Shinzō Ōnishi |  |
15 October 1944 |
| Naomasa Sakonju |  |
15 October 1944 |
| Kazutaka Shiraishi | — |
15 October 1944 |
| Raizō Tanaka |  |
15 October 1944 |
| Keizō Uwano | — |
15 October 1944 |
| Sadayoshi Yamada | — |
15 October 1944 |
| Shutoku Miyazato | — |
15 October 1944 |
| Teizō Hara | — |
15 October 1944 |
| Hidehiko Nishio | — |
15 October 1944 |
| Torao Sawada | — |
15 October 1944 |
| Kengo Kobayashi |  |
15 October 1944 |
| Yasuichirō Kondō | — |
15 October 1944 |
| Kanichi Morita | — |
15 October 1944 |
| Rikizō Tada | — |
15 October 1944 |
| Toshihira Inoguchi | — |
24 October 1944* |
| Masami Ban | — |
25 October 1944* |
| Takeo Kaizuka | — |
25 October 1944* |
| Katsukiyo Shinoda | — |
25 October 1944* |
| Mikio Hayakawa | — |
11 November 1944* |
| Shizue Ishii | — |
17 November 1944* |
| Kanji Matsumura |  |
18 November 1944* |
| Toshio Shimazaki | — |
21 November 1944* |
| Heitarō Edo | — |
25 November 1944* |
| Sadatoshi Senda | — |
25 December 1944* |
| Shirō Shibuya | — |
12 January 1945* |
| Sanji Iwabuchi | — |
26 February 1945* |
| Satoshi Takada | — |
10 March 1945* |
| Toshinosuke Ichimaru |  |
17 March 1945* |
| Kōsaku Aruga |  |
7 April 1945* |
| Kuni Asaakira |  |
1 May 1945 |
| Sueto Hirose | — |
1 May 1945 |
| Hisashi Ichioka |  |
1 May 1945 |
| Michiaki Kamata | — |
1 May 1945 |
| Chimaki Kawano | — |
1 May 1945 |
| Susumu Kimura |  |
1 May 1945 |
| Gunji Kogure | — |
1 May 1945 |
| Kunizō Mori | — |
1 May 1945 |
| Morikazu Osugi | — |
1 May 1945 |
| Ryūzō Takenaka | — |
1 May 1945 |
| Kyuhachi Kudō | — |
1 May 1945 |
| Gihachi Takayanagi | — |
1 May 1945 |
| Shigeji Kaneko |  |
1 May 1945 |
| Yasuo Yasuba | — |
1 May 1945 |
| Nobusuke Yamaguchi | — |
1 May 1945 |
| Tomojirō Yamanaka | — |
1 May 1945 |
| Kaju Sugiura | — |
16 May 1945* |
| Ushie Sugimoto | — |
12 June 1945* |
| Minoru Ōta |  |
13 June 1945* |
| Miki Otsuka | — |
18 July 1945* |
| Kiyoshi Kusagawa | — |
24 July 1945* |
| Masao Okamura | — |
31 July 1945* |
| Hideo Fukuchi | — |
17 August 1945* |
| Kaku Harada |  |
25 September 1945* |
| Masatomi Kimura |  |
1 November 1945 |
| Tomiji Koyanagi |  |
1 November 1945 |
| Tasuku Nakazawa |  |
1 November 1945 |
| Tamotsu Takama | — |
1 November 1945 |
| Jihei Yamaguchi | — |
1 November 1945 |
| Kaoru Arima | — |
1 November 1945 |
| Hisashi Mito |  |
1 November 1945 |
| Shikazo Yano | — |
1 November 1945 |
| Takaichirō Enomoto | — |
1 November 1945 |
| Gorō Nakamura | — |
1 November 1945 |
Rear Admirals
This colour along with the * (asterisk) indicates that the promotion was posthumously.
| Name | Picture | Date of Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Kanehirō Ijūin | — |
5 November 1874 |
| Kachō Hirotsune |  |
13 May 1876 |
| Narayoshi Yanagi |  |
12 August 1880 |
| Takanori Fukushima | — |
26 September 1887 |
| Susumu Motoyama | — |
24 September 1890 |
| Kagenori Yamazaki |  |
24 September 1890 |
| Kaneyoshi Isobe | — |
26 May 1893 |
| Toshikuni Kodama | — |
5 June 1893 |
| Masanaga Matsumura | — |
25 July 1895 |
| Kitarō Endo | — |
22 May 1900 |
| Sachiemon Fujita | — |
1 February 1902 |
| Rentarō Funaki | — |
28 May 1902 |
| Sadashirō Arikawa | — |
30 November 1906 |
| Shojirō Asai | — |
30 November 1906 |
| Masayoshi Fukui | — |
1 December 1910 |
| Tarozō Yamasumi | — |
1 December 1912 |
| Kishi Arakawa | — |
1 December 1912 |
| Chugo Arakawa | — |
1 December 1916 |
| Keijirō Aranishi | — |
1 December 1916 |
| Yoshima Akizawa | — |
1 December 1918 |
| Kojūrō Nozaki |  |
1 December 1919 |
| Keiichi Ebihara | — |
1 December 1920 |
| Teisuke Fukuda | — |
1 December 1920 |
| Shinjirō Yamamoto |  |
1 December 1922 |
| Ichirō Fukuda | — |
1 December 1922 |
| Tohei Aoki | — |
1 December 1923 |
| Kaname Eguchi | — |
1 December 1923 |
| Kaku Endo | — |
1 December 1924 |
| Naonori Yamamoto | — |
20 December 1924 |
| Tsurunosuke Yamazaki | — |
20 December 1924 |
| Takeshirō Akimoto | — |
20 December 1924 |
| Shoichi Anju | — |
20 December 1924 |
| Fumio Arao | — |
20 December 1924 |
| Itsushi Fujie | — |
20 December 1924 |
| Iwao Fujisawa | — |
20 December 1924 |
| Kensuke Fujii | — |
1 December 1926 |
| Kurō Endo | — |
1 December 1927 |
| Kenkichi Akabori | — |
30 November 1929 |
| Toyonaka Yamauchi | — |
1 December 1930 |
| Toraroku Akiyama | — |
1 December 1931 |
| Rokurō Hani | — |
1 December 1932 |
| Takashi Ando | — |
15 November 1933 |
| Kenzō Awanohara | — |
15 November 1933 |
| Tokuzō Esaka | — |
15 November 1933 |
| Sadaaki Araki | — |
15 November 1934 |
| Kichihei Adachi | — |
1 December 1936 |
| Tsuneo Amari | — |
1 December 1936 |
| Kaneji Kishimoto |  |
1 December 1936 |
| Seiichirō Fujimori | — |
1 December 1936 |
| Muneshige Aoyagi | — |
15 November 1938 |
| Setsuzō Araki | — |
15 November 1938 |
| Junpei Yamamoto | — |
15 November 1939 |
| Unosuke Akasaka | — |
15 November 1939 |
| Keizō Chiba | — |
15 November 1939 |
| Teizaburō Fukuda | — |
15 October 1941 |
| Sokichi Fukaya | — |
17 December 1941* |
| Yukio Katō | — |
17 January 1942* |
| Takatsugu Jōjima | — |
1 May 1942 |
| Katsuzō Akiyama | — |
1 May 1942 |
| Masao Kawaguchi | — |
4 June 1942* |
| Jisaku Okada |  |
4 June 1942* |
| Ryūsaku Yanagimoto |  |
4 June 1942* |
| Tomeo Kaku |  |
5 June 1942* |
| Shakao Sakiyama | — |
10 June 1942* |
| Shirō Yasutake | — |
11 September 1942* |
| Toshio Akiyoshi | — |
1 November 1942 |
| Yoshirō Fujii | — |
1 November 1942 |
| Yoshisuke Okamoto | — |
27 November 1942* |
| Ichirō Togami | — |
6 January 1943* |
| Kenji Asai | — |
13 January 1943* |
| Nobunosuke Ōta | — |
11 February 1943* |
| Keishi Ishii | — |
1 May 1943 |
| Chiaki Matsuda |  |
1 May 1943 |
| Teijirō Yamazumi | — |
1 May 1943 |
| Takeo Aruga | — |
1 May 1943 |
| Makoto Awaya | — |
1 May 1943 |
| Morihiko Miki |  |
1 May 1943 |
| Denzaburō Emoto | — |
1 May 1943 |
| Akiyoshi Fujii | — |
15 June 1943* |
| Sukeichi Yamazaki | — |
4 August 1943* |
| Shigeki Ando | — |
21 August 1943* |
| Keizō Komura |  |
1 November 1943 |
| Shinzaburō Hase | — |
1 November 1943 |
| Sukezō Adachi | — |
1 November 1943 |
| Masao Aoki | — |
1 November 1943 |
| Kameto Kuroshima |  |
1 November 1943 |
| Aritaka Aihara | — |
4 November 1943 |
| Tadashi Ara | — |
3 December 1943* |
| Takashi Doi | — |
12 January 1944* |
| Hideo Aoyama | — |
17 February 1944* |
| Matsurō Eguchi | — |
23 February 1944* |
| Fumio Kitamura | — |
30 March 1944* |
| Yoshitane Yanagimura | — |
31 March 1944* |
| Bunji Asakura |  |
1 May 1944 |
| Masamichi Ikeuchi | — |
1 May 1944 |
| Naoji Doi | — |
1 May 1944 |
| Keijō Minato |  |
1 May 1944 |
| Hideo Hiraide |  |
1 May 1944 |
| Kenroku Fujita | — |
1 May 1944 |
| Naoshirō Fujiyoshi | — |
1 May 1944 |
| Yushirō Wada | — |
3 May 1944* |
| Tetsuo Onitsuka | — |
3 May 1944* |
| Fuji Arimura | — |
10 May 1944* |
| Toshiaki Fukumura |  |
15 May 1944* |
| Tetsushirō Emi | — |
31 May 1944* |
| Shizuo Akazawa | — |
8 June 1944* |
| Toyo Mitsunobu | — |
9 June 1944* |
| Sadae Chiya | — |
6 July 1944* |
| Saburō Ashina | — |
8 July 1944* |
| Miyoshi Horinouchi | — |
8 July 1944* |
| Takakazu Kinashi |  |
26 July 1944* |
| Kanzō Miura | — |
30 July 1944* |
| Hitoshi Awanohara | — |
2 August 1944* |
| Toshi Kubota | — |
18 August 1944* |
| Sukehiko Hosoya | — |
12 September 1944* |
| Tsuto Araki | — |
15 October 1944 |
| Yuji Kobe | — |
15 October 1944 |
| Akira Yamaki | — |
15 October 1944 |
| Kamenosuke Yamamori | — |
15 October 1944 |
| Chikao Yamamoto |  |
15 October 1944 |
| Ichirō Aitoku | — |
15 October 1944 |
| Jirō Ban | — |
15 October 1944 |
| Akitomo Beppu | — |
15 October 1944 |
| Kanei Chudo | — |
15 October 1944 |
| Zensuke Kanome |  |
15 October 1944 |
| Shirō Fujinaga | — |
15 October 1944 |
| Kiyoma Fujiwara | — |
15 October 1944 |
| Matsujirō Yamataka | — |
18 October 1944* |
| Keizō Domen | — |
23 October 1944* |
| Ranji Ōe | — |
23 October 1944* |
| Kimitake Koshino | — |
24 October 1944* |
| Teizō Nagai | — |
24 October 1944* |
| Eiichirō Jō | — |
25 October 1944* |
| Yoshiyuki Kishi | — |
25 October 1944* |
| Iwata Yamamoto | — |
25 October 1944* |
| Teizō Yamauchi | — |
25 October 1944* |
| Shigetaka Amano | — |
25 October 1944* |
| Norihide Ando | — |
25 October 1944* |
| Takeo Kamikawa | — |
25 October 1944* |
| Setsuji Moriya | — |
25 October 1944* |
| Jō Tanaka | — |
25 October 1944* |
| Ryō Toma | — |
25 October 1944* |
| Yoshitane Kisaka | — |
8 November 1944* |
| Sei Azukizawa | — |
17 November 1944* |
| Hiroshi Yoshimatsu | — |
21 November 1944* |
| Soichirō Hitomi |  |
25 November 1944* |
| Toshio Abe | — |
29 November 1944* |
| Kaname Konishi | — |
19 December 1944* |
| Tamon Aoki | — |
19 December 1944* |
| Yasuhira Kondō | — |
19 December 1944* |
| Yoshishige Amaya | — |
26 December 1944* |
| Yoshiichirō Akamatsu | — |
29 December 1944* |
| Moriichi Akinaga | — |
27 January 1945* |
| Akira Itagaki | — |
17 February 1945* |
| Tokujirō Fukuoka | — |
10 March 1945* |
| Takanobu Sasaki | — |
1 April 1945* |
| Yuji Yamamoto | — |
7 April 1945* |
| Shirō Hayashi | — |
7 April 1945* |
| Eitarō Ankyu |  |
12 April 1945* |
| Yasushi Kawano | — |
12 April 1945* |
| Yoshio Yamamoto | — |
1 May 1945 |
| Jitsue Akishige | — |
1 May 1945 |
| Seiho Arima | — |
1 May 1945 |
| Keikichi Araki | — |
1 May 1945 |
| Shinpei Asano | — |
1 May 1945 |
| Giichi Ban | — |
1 May 1945 |
| Sadakatsu Minobe |  |
1 May 1945 |
| Etsuzō Kurihara |  |
1 May 1945 |
| Masaharu Kawabata | — |
1 May 1945 |
| Iwao Kawai | — |
1 May 1945 |
| Tarō Taguchi | — |
1 May 1945 |
| Ichirō Yokoyama |  |
1 May 1945 |
| Kumatarō Nakao | — |
16 May 1945* |
| Nobukichi Takahashi | — |
16 May 1945* |
| Nao Eguchi | — |
4 June 1945* |
| Koun Abe | — |
8 June 1945* |
| Nenosuke Nakamura | — |
10 June 1945* |
| Hitoshi Tanamachi | — |
13 June 1945* |
| Jirō Haneda | — |
13 June 1945* |
| Sutezō Tomita | — |
15 July 1945* |
| Teiji Higuchi | — |
18 July 1945* |
| Morio Fukami | — |
8 August 1945* |
| Tatsunosuke Ariizumi |  |
29 August 1945* |
| Tetsujirō Wada | — |
29 October 1945* |