The was an army

Corps

A corps is either a large formation, or an administrative grouping of troops within an armed force with a common function such as Artillery or Signals representing an arm of service...

 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...

 during the Second Sino-Japanese War

Second Sino-Japanese War

The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. From 1937 to 1941, China fought Japan with some economic help from Germany , the Soviet Union and the United States...

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History

The Japanese 11th Army was formed on July 4, 1938 under the Japanese Central China Area Army

Japanese Central China Area Army

The was a field army of the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War.-History:On November 7, 1937 Japanese Central China Area Army was organized as a reinforcement expeditionary army by combining the Shanghai Expeditionary Army and the IJA Tenth Army...

 for the task of conquering and occupying the central provinces of China

China

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 between the Yangtze River

Yangtze River

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 and the Yellow River

Yellow River

The Yellow River or Huang He, formerly known as the Hwang Ho, is the second-longest river in China and the sixth-longest in the world at the estimated length of . Originating in the Bayan Har Mountains in Qinghai Province in western China, it flows through nine provinces of China and empties into...

. The 11th Army played a major role in the Battle of Wuhan

Battle of Wuhan

The Battle of Wuhan, popularly known to the Chinese as the Defence of Wuhan, and to the Japanese as the Capture of Wuhan, was a large-scale battle of the Second Sino-Japanese War...

. From September 1939, it came under the newly formed China Expeditionary Army and was transferred to the control of the Japanese Sixth Area Army in September 1944. It was disbanded at Quanzhou County (Guilin

Guilin

Guilin is a prefecture-level city in the northeast of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of far southern China, sitting on the west bank of the Li River. Its name means "forest of Sweet Osmanthus", owing to the large number of fragrant Sweet Osmanthus trees located in the city...

) in Guangxi

Guangxi

Guangxi, formerly romanized Kwangsi, is a province of southern China along its border with Vietnam. In 1958, it became the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China, a region with special privileges created specifically for the Zhuang people.Guangxi's location, in...

 province at 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...

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Commanding Officers

	Name	From	To
1	Lieutenant General Yasuji Okamura Yasuji Okamura - Notes :...	23 June 1938	9 March 1940
2	Lieutenant General Waichiro Sonobe Waichiro Sonobe was a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War.-Biography:A native of Kumamoto prefecture, Sonobe graduated from the 16th class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1904. After serving with the IJA 23rd Infantry Regiment, he completed coursework at...	9 March 1940	4 April 1941
3	Lieutenant General Korechika Anami	4 April 1941	1 July 1942
4	Lieutenant General Osamu Tsukada	1 July 1942	22 December 1942
5	Lieutenant General Isamu Yokoyama	22 December 1942	22 November 1944
6	Lieutenant General Yoshio Kotsuki	22 November 1944	7 April 1945
7	Lieutenant General Yukio Kasahara Yukio Kasahara - Notes :...	7 April 1945	15 August 1945

Chief of Staff

	Name	From	To
1	General Teiichi Yoshimoto	20 June 1938	31 January 1939
2	Lieutenant General Takazo Numata	31 January 1939	1 August 1939
3	Lieutenant General Junsei Aoki	4 August 1939	1 March 1941
4	Major General Isami Kinoshita	1 March 1941	1 December 1942
5	Major General Kunio Osonoe	1 December 1942	7 February 1944
6	Major General Sadatake Nakayama	7 February 1944	23 April 1945
7	Major General Banzo Fukutomi	23 April 1945	15 August 1945