22nd Army (Japanese Empire)

22nd Army
active	February 9, 1940 to November 9, 1940
Country	Japanese Empire
Armed forces	Japanese armed forces
Armed forces	Japanese army
Branch of service	infantry
Type	corps
Strength	approx. 60,000
Insinuation	South China Regional Army
Location	Guangxi / French Indochina
Nickname	Wa ( 和 , "harmony")
Butcher	Second Sino-Japanese War Japanese invasion of French Indochina
Supreme command
list of	Commander in chief

The 22nd Army ( Japanese 第 22 軍 , Dai-nijū-ni-gun ) was a major unit of the Imperial Japanese Army in 1940 . The Tsūshōgō code (military code name) of the 22nd Army was Harmonie ( 和 , Wa ).

history

The 22nd Army was set up on February 9, 1940 in the Chinese province of Guangxi under the command of Lieutenant General Kuno Seiichi and was under the Regional Army of South China ( General Andō Rikichi ). The main task of this army was to provide the garrison for the Japanese conquered Chinese provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi.

On September 5, 1940, parts of the 22nd Army occupied the north of the colonial overseas territory administered by the Vichy government during the Japanese invasion of French Indochina , in order to cut off the supply routes of the national Chinese on the border with French Indochina . The agreement between the Japanese Empire and the Vichy government provided that Japan was allowed to station 6,000 soldiers in the country. However, this agreement was undermined by General Ando and Lieutenant General Kuno, who let parts of the 5th Division invade French Indochina from Guangdong . Andō and Kuno were then removed from their posts. Shortly after the incident, the 22nd Army was disbanded on November 9, 1940.

Commander in chief

	Surname	From	To
commander	Lieutenant General Kuno Seiichi	February 9, 1940	November 9, 1940
chief of staff	Lieutenant General Wakamatsu Tadaichi	February 9, 1940	November 9, 1940

Subordinate units

• 22nd Army Staff
• 5th division
• Mixed brigade of the Imperial Guard
• Taiwan Mixed Brigade
• other smaller units

literature

• Victor Madej: Japanese Armed Forces Order of Battle, 1937-1945. Game Publishing, 1981, OCLC 833591372 , OCLC 833591376 .
• Tran My-Van: A Vietnamese Royal Exile in Japan: Prince Cuong De (1882–1951). Routledge, 2005, ISBN 0-4156-5313-4 .
• Richard Fuller: Japanese Generals 1926–1945. 1st edition. Schiffer Publishing, Atglen, PA 2011, ISBN 978-0-7643-3754-3 .

Web links

• Japanese Forces Battle of Souther Kwangsi January to Late February 1940. http://usacac.army.mil , accessed December 19, 2017 . 

Individual evidence

1. ^ Richard Fuller: Japanese Generals 1926–1945. 2001, p. 28.
2. ^ My-Van, p. 153.

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Kuno is the family name, Seiichi the first name.