Northern China Regional Army

Northern China Regional Army
active	August 21, 1937 to August 15, 1945
Country	Japanese Empire
Armed forces	Japanese armed forces
Armed forces	Japanese army
Branch of service	infantry
Type	army
Strength	approx. 250,000
Location	Beijing
Butcher	Second Sino-Japanese War
Supreme command
list of	Commander in chief

The Northern China Regional Army ( Japanese 北 支那 方面軍 , Kita Shina hōmengun ) was one of the regional armies of the Imperial Japanese Army from 1937 to 1945 .

history

The Central China Regional Army was set up in Beijing on August 21, 1937 under the command of General Terauchi Hisaichi and was subordinate to the China Expeditionary Army , one of the main armies of the Imperial Japanese Army. It consisted of the 1st and 12th Armies , the Mongolian Garrison Army and several independent mixed brigades .

The Northern China Regional Army was disbanded in Beijing on August 15, 1945.

Commander in chief

	Surname	From	To
1.	General Terauchi Hisaichi	August 26, 1937	December 9, 1938
2.	General Sugiyama Hajime	December 9, 1938	September 12, 1939
3.	Lieutenant General Sugiyama Hajime	September 12, 1939	July 7, 1941
4th	General Okamura Yasuji	July 7, 1941	August 25, 1944
5.	General Okabe Naozaburō	August 25, 1944	November 22, 1944
6th	Lieutenant General Shimomura Sadamu	November 22, 1944	August 15, 1945

Subordinate units

1939

The following units were subordinate to the Northern China Regional Army (as of September 1939):

• 1st Army
  • 20th division
  • 36th division
  • 37th division
  • 108th Division
  • 109th division
  • 3rd Independent Mixed Brigade
  • 4. Independent Mixed Brigade
  • 9. Independent Mixed Brigade
• Mongolia Garrison Army
  • 26th Division
  • Cavalry group
    • 1st Cavalry Brigade
    • 2nd Cavalry Brigade
    • 3rd Cavalry Brigade
  • 2. Independent Mixed Brigade
• 12th Army
  • 21st Division
  • 32nd division
  • 5th Independent Mixed Brigade
  • 6. Independent Mixed Brigade
  • 10. Independent Mixed Brigade
• Subordinated directly to:
  • 27th Division
  • 35th division
  • 114th Division (from 1940)

1941

In December 1941, the Northern China Regional Army was subordinate to the following units:

• 1st Army
  • 36th division
  • 37th division
  • 41st Division
  • 3rd Independent Mixed Brigade
  • 4. Independent Mixed Brigade
  • 9th Independent Mixed Brigade
  • 16. Independent Mixed Brigade
  • smaller units
• 12th Army
  • 17th division
  • 32nd division
  • 5th Independent Mixed Brigade
  • 6th Independent Mixed Brigade
• Mongolia Garrison Army
  • 26th Division
  • Mongolian Cavalry Group
  • 2. Independent Mixed Brigade
• reserve
  • 27th Division
  • 35th division
  • 110th division
  • 1st Independent Mixed Brigade
  • 7th Independent Mixed Brigade
  • 8th Independent Mixed Brigade
  • 8th Panzer Regiment
  • 15th Panzer Regiment

1945

In April 1945, the North China Regional Army was subordinate to the following units:

• Subordinated directly to the Northern China Regional Army:
  • 63rd Division
  • 1st Independent Mixed Brigade
  • 8th Independent Mixed Brigade
  • 2nd Independent Infantry Brigade
  • Other smaller units
• 1st Army
  • 69th Division
  • 114th Division
  • 3rd Independent Mixed Brigade
  • 10th Independent Infantry Brigade
  • 14. Independent Infantry Brigade
  • Other smaller units
• 12th Army
  • 110th division
  • 115th Division
  • 117th Division
  • 3rd Panzer Division
  • 4th Cavalry Brigade
  • 9th Independent Mixed Brigade
  • 1st Independent Infantry Brigade
  • Other smaller units
• 43rd Army
  • 59th Division
  • 5th Independent Mixed Brigade
  • 9th Independent Mixed Brigade
  • 1st Independent Infantry Brigade
  • 9th Independent Infantry Brigade
  • 11th Independent Infantry Brigade
  • Other smaller units
• Mongolia Garrison Army
  • 118th Division
  • 2. Independent Mixed Brigade
  • Other smaller units

literature

• Victor Madej: Japanese Armed Forces Order of Battle, 1937-1945. Game Publishing, 1981, OCLC 833591372 , OCLC 833591376 .
• Philip Jowett, "The Japanese Army 1931-45 (1)" Osprey Publishing, 2002, ISBN 978-1-8417-6353-8
• Gordon Rottman, "Japanese Army in World War II, Conquest of the Pacific" Osprey Publishing, 2005, ISBN 978-1-8417-6789-5

Web links

• 総 軍 ・ 方面軍. Organization of IJA, accessed January 2, 2015 .  , Japanese
• List of Higher Echeron Army Headquarters. Organizations of IJA & N, accessed January 1, 2015 . 
• Chapter 2. The Situation in North China. The National Institute for Defense Studies, accessed November 30, 2015 . 
• Japanese North China Area Army August 31, 1937. http://usacac.army.mil , accessed December 19, 2017 . 
• Japanese Forces Operations in Northern and Eastern Honan January 1938. http://usacac.army.mil , accessed December 19, 2017 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 総 軍 ・ 方面軍. (No longer available online.) Organization of IJA, archived from the original on April 20, 2015 ; accessed on January 2, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Jowett, p. 15
3. ↑ CGSC: Japanese North China Area Army, September 23, 1939. www.cgsc.edu, accessed September 25, 2015 (English). 
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m} Rottmann, p. 9
5. ↑ Japanese China Expeditionary Army Forces in China, late April 1945. (No longer available online.) United States Army Combined Arms Center, archived from the original on September 23, 2015 ; Retrieved June 29, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

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