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List of World War II aces from Japan

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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.

Contents

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  • Jirō Chōno

    • K

  • Susumu Kajinami || 24 ||(KIA 7/08/44)
  • Enji Kakimoto || 5 || POW 27.8.1942, Suicide 5.8.1944
  • Morichiki Kamae || 32 ||
  • Teizo Kanamaru || 8 || KIA 24.12.1942
  • Keishu Kamihara
  • Sumi Kamito || 40+ ||(KIA 4?02/45)
  • Moritsugu Kanai
  • Takeo Kanamaru || 12 || ||(KIA 29/11/44)
  • Nobuo Kanazawa || 10 ||
  • Masao Kanbara || 7 ||
  • Saiji Kanda || 9 || KIA 19.6.1943
  • Masashi Kaneko
  • Tadashi Kaneko || 8 (3 in China) || || KIA 14.2.1942
  • Naoshi Kanno (ja:菅野直)
  • Saiji Kani || 9 || KIA 29.6.1939
  • Naoshi Kano || 25 || || KIA 1.8.1945
  • Saiji Kani || 9 || KIA 29.6.1939

    • probably Naoshi Kanno-->

  • Tomkazu Kasai || 10 ||
  • Isamu Kashiide || 7+2 in China ||"Bukusho B-Class" (Badge of Courage) (ja:樫出勇)
  • Shirotaro Kashima || 9 || KIA 16.12.1944
  • Kanichi Kashimura || 12 || Order of the Golden Kite 5th Class || KIA 6.3.1943
  • Katsue Kato || 9 || KIA 16.4.1945
  • Kenji Kato || 9 || KIA 5.12.1944
  • Kunimichi Kato || 16 || || IJN
  • Tateo Katō || 18 || Order of the Golden Kite (Posthumously) || KIA 22.5.1942 (加藤建夫)
  • Kiyomi Katsuki || 16 ||
  • Kosuke Kawahara || 8+1 shared || || KIA 25.3.1938
  • Akira Kawakita || 5 || KIA 26.10.1944
  • Koki Kawamoto || 8 || "Bukuchosho" (Badge of Military Merit)
  • Masajiro Kawamoto
  • Masajiro Kawato || 18 || ||
  • Tetsuo Kikuchi || 12 || KIA 19.6.1944
  • Takaji Kimura || 26 ||
  • Sadamitsu Kimura || 8 || "Bukochosho" (Badge of Military Merit) || KIA 17.4.1945
  • Katsuaki Kira || 13+9 in China
  • Saburo Kitahata || 6+4 in China || || KIA 23.1.1943
  • Teruhiko Kobayashi || 14 (or 5) || "Bukosho" || KIFA 4/6/1957
  • Hohei Kobayashi || 10 || KIA 25.1.1944
  • Yoshinao Kodaira || 9+2 in China || || Died in 2008
  • Sada Koga || 31 ||
  • Kiyoto Koga || 13 || KIFA 1938
  • Fujikazu Koizumi || 11+3 in China || KIA 27.1.1944
  • Shizuo Kojima || 6 ||
  • Takeichi Kokubun || 11 || ||(KIA 28/06/44)
  • Sadamu Komachi || 18 || Died 15.7.2012
  • Masaichi Kondō || 13 ||
  • Kensui Kono || 9 ||
  • Kotaro Koyae || 15 ||
  • Osamu Kudō || 7 ||
  • Juzo Kuramoto || 5+4 in China || KIA 11.10.1942
  • Shiro Kuratori || 6 ||
  • Yasuhiko Kuroe (ja:黒江保彦) || 49+2 in China
  • Toshio Kuroiwa || 13 ||
  • Tameyoshi Kuroki || 16 ||
  • Seiichi Kurosawa || 10 ||(KIA 9/06/45)
  • Yoshiro Kuwabara || 13 || KIA 14.3.1944

    • M

  • Hideo Maeda || 13 || KIA 17.2.1944
  • Koichi Magara || 8 || KIA 14.9.1942
  • Akio Matsuba || 16+2 in China ||
  • Jiro Matsuda || 7+2 in China
  • Masao Masuyama |||| 17 ||
  • Morio Matsui || 21 || || (KIA 18/05/44)
  • Susumu Matsuki || 6, 2 probable, 3 shared ||
  • Momoto Matsumura || 13 || || KIA 25.8.1944
  • Hidenori Matsunaga || 16 || KIA 23.4.1945
  • Eitoku Matsunaga || 16 ||
  • Hidenori Matsunaga (KIA 23/4/45)
  • Kagemitsu Matsuo || 10 || KIA 23.12.1943
  • Toshio Matsuura || 5+10 in China || KIA 2.12.1943
  • Yoshimi Minami || 6+9 in China || KIA in Kamikaze attack 25.11.1944
  • Yoshijiro Minegishi || 6+3 in China || KIA 6.2.1944
  • Masoa Miyamaru ?
  • Goro Miyamoto || 26 ||
  • Zenjiro Miyano || 16 || KIA 16.6.1943
  • Masahiro Mitsuda || 16 ||
  • Kazunori Miyabe || 6 || KIA 3.11.1943
  • Hideo Miyabe || 12 ||
  • Isamu Miyazaki || 13 || Died 2012
  • Gitaro Miyazaki || 11+2 in China || KIA 1.6.1942
  • Isamu Mochizuki || 7 || KIA Feb 1944 in ground actions
  • Mitsugu Mori || 5+4 in China || Died 1960
  • Hideo Morinio || 8+1 in China
  • Yutaka Morioka || 5 ||
  • Toyoo Moriura || 8 || KIA 25.10.1942
  • Noboru Mune || 14 || (KIA 19.11.1944)
  • Kazuo Muranaka || 7+1 in China
  • Kaneyoshi "Kinsuke" Muto || 23+5 in China ||(ja:武藤金義)

    • N

  • Kiichi Nagano || 19 || KIA 6.11.1944
  • Yoshimitsu Naka || 5 ||(KIA 419/08/44)
  • Yoshihiko Nakada || 45 || KIA 9.11.1943
  • Kenji Nakagawa || 8 ||
  • Tadashi Nakajima (75)
  • Bunkichi Nakajima || 16 || KIA 6.10.1943
  • Kunimori Nakakariya || 16 ||
  • Wataru Nakamichi || 15 ||
  • Saburo Nakamura || 20 || (KIA 6/10/44)
  • Yoshio Nakamura || 9 ||
  • Matsumi Nakano || 5 || "Bukuchosho" (Badge for Military Merit)
  • Katsujiro Nakano || 7 || KIA 4.5.1945
  • Tomoji Nakano || 7 ||
  • Masayuki Nakase || 18+9 in China || (KIA 1/01/45)
  • Yoshiichi Nakaya || 16 ||
  • Shigeru Nakazaki || 16 || KIA 23.1.1943
  • Kiyoshi Namai || 16 ||
  • Mochifumi Nangō || 8 || KIA 18/7/1938
  • Shigeo Nango || 15 || KIA 25/1/1944
  • Yashiro Nashiguchi || 11 ||
  • Nobuji Negishi 6+7 damaged (all B-29) || (KIA 22/04/45)
  • ? Nishikyo || 5 ||
  • Hannoshin Nishio || 5 ||
  • Shigetsune Nishioka || 8 || KIA 28/10/1944
  • Masaharu Nishiwaki || 5 || (KIA 8/12/44)
  • Hiroyoshi Nishizawa (西沢広義) 36, 2 damaged, 49 shared || (Deliberately crashed on USS Suwanee 26/10/44)
  • Yoshinori Noguchi || 6 || KIA 25/10/1944
  • Takeshi Noguchi || 14 ||
  • Akiyoshi Nomura || 10 ||

    • O

  • Tsutae Obara || 8 || KIA 25/7/1945
  • Kiichi (Ki-ichi) Oda || 5+4 in China || KIA 10/12/1944
  • Noritsura Odaka || 12 ||
  • Yojiro Ofusa || 19 ||
  • Koichi Ogata || 7 || (KIA 8/08/44)
  • Naoyuki Ogata || 5 || "Bukochosho" (Badge for Military Merit)
  • Makoto Ogawa || 9 (7 x B-29s) || "Bukuchosho"
  • Nobuo Ogiya (ja:荻谷信男) || 24 || KIA 13/2/1944
  • Mitsuo Ogura || 16 ||
  • Ryoji Ohara || 16 (48?) ||
  • Hideo Oishi || 6 ||
  • Yoshio Oishi || 15 || (KIA 12/12/44)
  • Kenji Okabe || 15 || KIA September 1943
  • Takashi Okamoto || 6 ||
  • Juzo Okamoto || 5+4 in China || KIA 11/10/1942
  • Hiroshi Okano || 19 ||
  • Yoshio Oki || 13+4 in China || (16/06/43)
  • Misao Okubu || 8 ||
  • Takeo Okumura || 50+4 in China || "Ceremonial Sword" || KIA 22/9/1943
  • Shokichi Omori || 9 ||
  • Shigetaka Ōmori || 13 || KIA 25/10/1942
  • Hiroshi Onazaki || 14 ||(6/09/45)
  • Akira Onozaki || 28 ||
  • Megumu Ono || 15 || KIFA 1/2/1940
  • Satoru Ono|| 5+3 in China || Died 2001
  • Takeyoshi Ono || 8 || KIA 30/6/1943
  • Takashi Oshibuchi || 6 ||
  • Toshio Ota (Devil of Rabaul) || 34 || KIA 21/10/1942 (太田敏夫)
  • Kyushiro Otake || 15 || DOW in 1951
  • Nakakazu Ozaki (ja:尾崎中和) || 19, 12-14 damaged || KIA 27/12/1943
  • Yukiharu Ozeki || 14+ || KIA 24/10/1944

    • S

  • Shogo Saito || 26 || (KIA 2/07/44)
  • Chiyoshi Saito || 7 || KIA 2/7/1943
  • Saburo Saito || 18 ||
  • Toshio Sakagawa || 49 || KIFA 19/12/1944
  • Saburō Sakai (ja:坂井三郎) || 28 or 62+2 in China || Died 22/9/2000
  • Iori Sakai || 9 ||
  • Takao Sakano || 10 ||
  • Junichi Sasai (ja:笹井醇一) || 27 or 54? || KIA 26/8/1942 "Richthofen of Rabaul"
  • Tomokazu Sasai || 10 ||
  • Yoshiichi Sasaki || 6 ||
  • Isamu Sasaki || 38 || "Buchukosho"
  • Masao Sasakibara || 12 ||
  • Hitoshi Sato || 8 || KIA 11/11/1943
  • Gonnoshin Sato ||5 ||(KIA 11/04/45)
  • Mitsugu Sawada || 12, 1 shared || KIA 5/3/1943
  • Eiji Seino || 15 ||
  • Hiroshi Sekiguchi || 7+1 shared ||
  • Kiyoshi Sekiya || 11 || (KIA 24/06/44)
  • Hiroshi Shibagaki || 13 || KIA 22/1/1944
  • |Rikio (Rikia) Shibata || 13+14 in China || 18/12/1944
  • Sekizen Shibayama || 13 ||
  • Shigeru Shibukawa || 15 ||
  • Yoshio Shiga || 6 ||
  • Masami Shiga || 6 ||
  • Yasuhiro Shigematsu || 10 || KIA 8/7/1944
  • |Katsuma Shigemi || 8 || KIA 4/2/1943
  • Kenji Shimada || 27 || MIA 15/9/1939
  • Masaaki Shimakawa || 8, 12 shared || Died 25/9/1997
  • Kiyoshi Shimizu || 12 ||(KIA 26/01/45)
  • Kazuo Shimizu || 18 ||
  • Takeshi Shimizu || 9 ||
  • Yukio Shimokawa || 19 ||
  • Hiromichi Shinohara (ja:篠原弘道) || 58 || KIA 27/8/1939
  • Toshio Shiozura || 20 ||
  • Yoshijiro Shirahama || 11 ||
  • Nagao Shirai || 13 (including 11 x B-29) ||
  • Toshihisa Shirakawa || 9 || KIA 22/9/1943
  • 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.

    • References

    List of World War II aces from Japan Wikipedia
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