The was an army

Corps

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 of the Imperial Japanese Army

Imperial Japanese Army

-Foundation:During the Meiji Restoration, the military forces loyal to the Emperor were samurai drawn primarily from the loyalist feudal domains of Satsuma and Chōshū...

, forming a garrison

Garrison

Garrison is the collective term for a body of troops stationed in a particular location, originally to guard it, but now often simply using it as a home base....

 force in Korea under Japanese rule

Korea under Japanese rule

Korea was under Japanese rule as part of Japan's 35-year imperialist expansion . Japanese rule ended in 1945 shortly after the Japanese defeat in World War II....

.

History

Japanese forces occupied large portions of the Empire of Korea during the Russo-Japanese War

Russo-Japanese War

The Russo-Japanese War was "the first great war of the 20th century." It grew out of rival imperial ambitions of the Russian Empire and Japanese Empire over Manchuria and Korea...

 of 1904-1905, and a substantial was established in Seoul

Seoul

Seoul , officially the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. A megacity with a population of over 10 million, it is the largest city proper in the OECD developed world...

 to protect the Japanese embassy and civilians on March 11, 1904. After the Annexation of Korea

Japan-Korea Annexation Treaty

The Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, also known as the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty, was made by representatives of the Empire of Japan and the Korean Empire in 1910. Negotiations were concluded on August 20, 1910...

 by the Empire of Japan

Empire of Japan

The Empire of Japan is the name of the state of Japan that existed from the Meiji Restoration on 3 January 1868 to the enactment of the post-World War II Constitution of...

 in 1910, this force was renamed the Chosen Chusatsugun, and was further renamed the Japanese Korean Army on June 1, 1918. The primary task of the Korean Army was to guard the Korean peninsula against possible incursions from the Soviet Union; however, its units were also used for suppression of nationalist uprisings and political dissent

Political dissent

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 within Korea itself. The Korean Army also came to the assistance of the Kwantung Army in its unauthorized invasion of Manchuria in 1931. In 1941, the Army was subordinated to the General Defense Command.

In 1945, as the situation in the Pacific War

Pacific War

The Pacific War, also sometimes called the Asia-Pacific War refers broadly to the parts of World War II that took place in the Pacific Ocean, its islands, and in East Asia, then called the Far East...

 was turning increasing against Japan, the Army was transformed into the Japanese Seventeenth Area Army, and subsequently placed under the overall administrative command of the Kwantung Army. Its two undermanned infantry divisions were unable to withstand the massive Soviet Red Army

Red Army

The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army started out as the Soviet Union's revolutionary communist combat groups during the Russian Civil War of 1918-1922. It grew into the national army of the Soviet Union. By the 1930s the Red Army was among the largest armies in history.The "Red Army" name refers to...

 armored and amphibious assault on Korea during the Soviet invasion of Manchuria. After the surrender of Japan

Surrender of Japan

The surrender of Japan in 1945 brought hostilities of World War II to a close. By the end of July 1945, the Imperial Japanese Navy was incapable of conducting operations and an Allied invasion of Japan was imminent...

, the Army remained armed under operational command of the United States Army

United States Army

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 to maintain public order under the arrival of substantial Allied

Allies of World War II

The Allies of World War II were the countries that opposed the Axis powers during the Second World War . Former Axis states contributing to the Allied victory are not considered Allied states...

 forces to take control.

Commanding officer

	Name	From	To
1	Lieutenant General Kensai Haraguchi	11 March 1904	8 September 1904
2	Marshal Field Marshal (Japan) was the highest title in the prewar Imperial Japanese Military.The term gensui, which was used for both the Imperial Japanese Army and the Imperial Japanese Navy, was at first a rank held by Saigō Takamori as the Commander of the Armies in 1872...  Yoshimichi Hasegawa	8 September 1904	21 December 1908
3	General Haruno Okubo	21 December 1908	18 August 1911
4	General Arisawa Ueda	18 August 1911	14 January 1912
5	General Sadayoshi Ando	14 January 1912	25 January 1915
6	General Seigo Inokuchi	25 January 1915	18 August 1916
7	General Yoshifuru Akiyama	18 August 1916	6 August 1917
8	General Satoshi Matsukawa	6 August 1917	24 July 1918
9	General Heitaro Utsunomiya	24 July 1918	16 August 1920
10	Lieutenant General Jiro Oba	16 August 1920	24 November 1922
11	General Shinnosuke Kikuchi	24 November 1922	20 August 1924
12	General Soroku Suzuki	20 August 1924	2 March 1926
13	General Shusei Morioka	2 March 1926	5 March 1927
14	General Hanzo Kanaya	5 March 1927	1 August 1929
15	General Jirō Minami Jiro Minami - Notes :...	1 August 1929	22 November 1930
16	Lieutenant General Senjuro Hayashi Senjuro Hayashi was an Imperial Japanese Army commander of the Chosen Army of Japan in Korea during the Mukden Incident and the invasion of Manchuria, and a Japanese politician and the 33rd Prime Minister of Japan from February 2, 1937 to June 4, 1937.-Biography:...	22 November 1930	26 May 1932
17	General Yoshiyuki Kawashima	26 May 1932	1 August 1934
18	General Kenkichi Ueda Kenkichi Ueda -External links:*- Notes :...	1 August 1934	2 December 1935
19	General Kuniaki Koiso Kuniaki Koiso - Notes :...	2 December 1935	15 July 1938
20	General Kotaro Nakamura	15 July 1938	7 July 1941
21	General Seishirō Itagaki	7 July 1941	7 April 1945
22	Lieutenant General Yoshio Kozuki	7 April 1945	September 1945

Chief of Staff

	Name	From	To
1	Lieutenant General Rikisaburo Saito	19 March 1904	12 September 1904
2	Lieutenant General Toyosaburo Ochiai	12 September 1904	7 April 1905
3	General Kikuzuo Otani	7 April 1905	1 June 1906
4	Lieutenant General Takashi Muta	1 June 1906	21 December 1908
5	General Jiro Akashi	21 December 1908	15 June 1910
6	Lieutenant General Shozo Sakakibara	15 June 1910	30 November 1910
7	General Katsusaburo Shiba	30 November 1910	28 September 1912
8	General Koichiro Tachibara	28 September 1912	17 April 1914
9	Lieutenant General Gencho Furumi	17 April 1914	1 April 1916
10	Lieutenant General Tan Shirozu	1 April 1916	6 August 1917
11	Lieutenant General Kentaro Ichikawa	6 August 1917	1 November 1918
12	Major General Toyoshi Ono	1 November 1918	20 July 1921
13	Major General Kinichi Yasumitsu	20 July 1921	6 August 1923
14	Major General Harumi Akai	6 August 1923	2 March 1926
15	Lieutenant General Senyuki Hayashi	2 March 1926	26 August 1927
16	Marshal Count Hisaichi Terauchi	26 August 1927	1 August 1929
17	Lieutenant General Kotaro Nakamura	1 August 1929	22 December 1930
18	General Tomou Kodama	22 December 1930	1 August 1933
19	Major General Keikichi Ogushi	1 August 1933	2 December 1935
20	Major General Yoshishige Saeda	2 December 1935	1 December 1936
21	Lieutenant General Seiichi Kuno Seiichi Kuno - Notes :...	1 December 1936	1 March 1938
22	Lieutenant General Kenzo Kitano	1 March 1938	7 September 1939
23	Lieutenant General Yakutaira Kato	7 September 1939	1 March 1941
24	Lieutenant General Hiroshi Takahashi Hiroshi Takahashi is a Japanese manga artist.-Manga career:Takahashi mostly known from his manga Crows, Worst and QP. One of his manga was adapted into movies namely Crows ZERO and Crows ZERO II -External links:...	1 March 1941	9 July 1942
25	Lieutenant General Junjiro Ihara	9 July 1942	September 1945

See also

• Korea under Japanese rule
  Korea under Japanese rule
  Korea was under Japanese rule as part of Japan's 35-year imperialist expansion . Japanese rule ended in 1945 shortly after the Japanese defeat in World War II....
  
  
• List of Korea-related topics
• Armies of the Imperial Japanese Army