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• Susumu Kajinami
• Enji Kakimoto
• Morichiki Kamae
• Teizo Kamemaru
• Keishu Kamihara
• Sumi Kamito
• Moritsugu Kanai
• Teizo Kanamaru
• Takeo Kanamaru
• Nobuo Kanazawa
• Masao Kanbara
• Saiji Kanda
• Masashi Kaneko
• Tadashi Kaneko
• Naoshi Kanno (:ja:菅野直)

• Tomkazu Kasai

• Isamu Kashiide (:ja:樫出勇)
• Shirotaro Kashima
• Kanichi Kashimura
• Katsue Kato
• Kenji Kato
• Kunimichi Kato
• Tateo Katō
  Tateo Kato
  was a Japanese ace army aviator, credited with at least 18 aerial victories and who was honored posthumously by an award of the Order of the Golden Kite.-Biography:...
  
   (加藤建夫)
• Kiyomi Katsuki
• Kosuke Kawahara
• Akira Kawakita
• Koki Kawamoto
• Masajiro Kawamoto
• Masajiro Kawato
• Tetsuo Kikuchi
• Takaji Kimura
• Sadamitsu Kimura
• Katsuaki Kira
• Saburo Kitahata
• Teruhiko Kobayashi
• Hohei Kobayashi
• Yoshinao Kodaira
• Sada Koga
• Kiyoto Koga
• Fujikazu Koizumi
• Shizuo Kojima
• Takeichi Kokubun
• Sadamu Komachi
• Masaichi Kondō
• Kensui Kono
• Kotaro Koyae
• Osamu Kudō
• Shigetoshi Kudo
• Juzo Kuramoto
• Shiro Kuratori
• Yasuhiko Kuroe (:ja:黒江保彦)
• Toshio Kuroiwa
• Tameyoshi Kuroki
• Seiichi Kurosawa
• Yoshiro Kuwabara

M

• Hideo Maeda
• Koichi Magara
• Akio Matsuba
• Jiro Matsuda
• Masao Masuyama
• Morio Matsui
• Susumu Matsuki
• Momoto Matsumura
• Hidenori Matsunaga
• Eitoku Matsunaga
• Hidenori Matsunaga
• Kagemitsu Matsuo
• Toshio Matsuura
• Yoshimi Minami
  Yoshimi Minami
  was an ace fighter pilot in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. Participating in many of the Pacific War battles and campaigns as a member of several units, Minami was officially credited with destroying 15 enemy aircraft. He was killed in November 1944 attempting to crash his...
  
  
• Yoshijiro Minegishi
• Masoa Miyamaru
• Goro Miyamoto
• Zenjiro Miyano
• Masahiro Mitsuda
• Kazunori Miyabe
• Hideo Miyabe
• Isamu Miyazaki
• Gitaro Miyazaki
• Isamu Mochizuki
• Mitsugu Mori
• Hideo Morinio
• Yutaka Morioka
• Toyoo Moriura
• Noboru Mune
• Kazuo Muranaka
• Kaneyoshi "Kinsuke" Muto (:ja:武藤金義)

N

• Kiichi Nagano
• Yoshimitsu Naka
• Yoshihiko Nakada
• Kenji Nakagawa
• Tadashi Nakajima (75)
• Bunkichi Nakajima
• Kunimori Nakakariya
• Wataru Nakamichi
• Saburo Nakamura
• Yoshio Nakamura
• Matsumi Nakano
• Katsujiro Nakano
• Tomoji Nakano
• Masayuki Nakase
• Yoshiichi Nakaya
• Shigeru Nakazaki
• Kiyoshi Namai
• Mochifumi Nangō
• Shigeo Nango
• Yashiro Nashiguchi
• Nobuji Negishi
• ? Nishikyo
• Hannoshin Nishio
• Shigetsune Nishioka
• Masaharu Nishiwaki
• Hiroyoshi Nishizawa
  Hiroyoshi Nishizawa
  Lieutenant Junior Grade was an ace of the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service during World War II.It is possible that Nishizawa was the most successful Japanese fighter ace of the war; he personally claimed to have had 87 aerial victories at the time of his death...
  
   (西沢広義) (103)
• Yoshinori Noguchi
• Takeshi Noguchi
• Akiyoshi Nomura

O

• Tsutae Obara
• Kiichi (Ki-ichi) Oda
• Noritsura Odaka
• Yojiro Ofusa
• Koichi Ogata
• Naoyuki Ogata
• Makoto Ogawa
• Nobuo Ogiya (:ja:荻谷信男)
• Mitsuo Ogura
• Ryoji Ohara
• Hideo Oishi
• Yoshio Oishi
• Kenji Okabe
  Kenji Okabe
  was an ace fighter pilot in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. Participating in many of the Pacific War battles and campaigns as a member of several units, Okabe was officially credited with destroying 15 enemy aircraft...
  
  
• Takashi Okamoto
• Juzo Okamoto
• Hiroshi Okano
• Yoshio Oki
• Misao Okubu
• Takeo Okumura (奥村武雄)
• Shokichi Omori
• Shigetaka Ōmori
• Hiroshi Onazaki
• Akira Onozaki
• Megumu Ono
• Satoru Ono
  Satoru Ono
  Satoru Ono was an officer and ace fighter pilot in the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Pacific theater of World War II. In aerial combat over China, the Pacific, and Japan, he was officially credited with destroying eight enemy aircraft...
  
  
• Takeyoshi Ono
• Takashi Oshibuchi
• Toshio Ota (Devil of Rabaul) (太田敏夫)
• Kyushiro Otake
• Nakakazu Ozaki (:ja:尾崎中和)
• Yukiharu Ozeki

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• Shogo Saito
• Chiyoshi Saito
• Saburo Saito
• Toshio Sakagawa
• Saburo Sakai
  Saburo Sakai
  Sub-Lieutenant was a Japanese naval aviator and flying ace of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. Sakai was the Imperial Navy's fourth-ranking ace and Japan's second leading fighter pilot to survive the war ....
  
   (:ja:坂井三郎)
• Iori Sakai
• Takao Sakano
• Junichi Sasai
  Junichi Sasai
  Lieutenant Commander was a Japanese naval aviator and fighter ace of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. Lieutenant Sasai was killed leading his fighter squadron during an attack of Henderson Field during the Battle of Guadalcanal....
  
   (:ja:笹井醇一)
• Tomokazu Sasai
• Yoshiichi Sasaki
• Isamu Sasaki
• Masao Sasakibara
  Masao Sasakibara
  was an ace fighter pilot in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. Participating in many of the Pacific War battles and campaigns as a member of several units, Sasakibara was officially credited with destroying 12 enemy aircraft. He was seriously injured while supporting the Ke operation...
  
  
• Hitoshi Sato
• Gonnoshin Sato
• Mitsugu Sawada
• Eiji Seino
• Hiroshi Sekiguchi
• Kiyoshi Sekiya
• Hiroshi Shibagaki
• Rikio (Rikia) Shibata
• Sekizen Shibayama
• Shigeru Shibukawa
• Yoshio Shiga
  Yoshio Shiga
  was an officer, ace fighter pilot, and leader in the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Pacific theater of World War II. At the December 1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor, Shiga led one of the aircraft carrier Kaga's fighter divisions during the first strike on American...
  
  
• Masami Shiga
• Yasuhiro Shigematsu
• Katsuma Shigemi
• Kenji Shimada
• Masaaki Shimakawa
  Masaaki Shimakawa
  was a warrant officer and ace fighter pilot in the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Pacific theater of World War II. In aerial combat over the Pacific he was officially credited with destroying eight enemy aircraft with 12 or 13 assists....
  
  
• Kiyoshi Shimizu
• Kazuo Shimizu
• Takeshi Shimizu
• Yukio Shimokawa
• Hiromichi Shinohara
  Hiromichi Shinohara
  was the highest-scoring fighter ace of the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service . On 27 June 1939 he set a Japanese record by downing 11 planes on a single day. He was shot down and killed on 27 August 1939, having claimed 58 victories in only three months of combat...
  
   (:ja:篠原弘道)
• Toshio Shiozura
• Yoshijiro Shirahama
• Nagao Shirai
• Toshihisa Shirakawa
• 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
  Kiyonobu Suzuki (ace)
  Kiyonobu Suzuki was a warrant officer and ace fighter pilot in the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Pacific theater of World War II. In aerial combat over China and the Pacific he was officially credited with destroying nine enemy aircraft...
  
  

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• Shigeru Takahashi
• Kenichi Takahashi
• Katsutaro Takahashi
• Takeo Takahashi
• Kaoru Takaiwa
• Keiji Takamiya
• Toraichi Takatsuka
• Shogo Takeuchi
• Hiroshi Takiguchi
• Kuniyoshi Tanaka
• Minpo Tanaka
• Jiro Tanaka
• Shinsaku Tanaka
• Masao Taniguchi
• Takeo Tanimizu (谷水竹雄)
• Mitsuyoshi Tarui
• Tadao Tashiro
• Nobuo Tokushige
• Yoshihisa Tokuji
• Kosuke Tsubone
• Ko Tsuchiya
• Kazuo Tsunoda

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Abbreviations

• "KIA" in Notes means Killed in action
  Killed in action
  Killed in action is a casualty classification generally used by militaries to describe the deaths of their own forces at the hands of hostile forces. The United States Department of Defense, for example, says that those declared KIA need not have fired their weapons but have been killed due to...
  
   (dates are included where possible).
• "KIFA" in Notes means Killed in Flying Accident.
• "MIA" in Notes means Missing in action
  Missing in action
  Missing in action is a casualty Category assigned under the Status of Missing to armed services personnel who are reported missing during active service. They may have been killed, wounded, become a prisoner of war, or deserted. If deceased, neither their remains nor grave can be positively...
  
  .
• "WIA" in Notes means Wounded in action
  Wounded in action
  Wounded in action describes soldiers who have been wounded while fighting in a combat zone during war time, but have not been killed. Typically it implies that they are temporarily or permanently incapable of bearing arms or continuing to fight....
  
   leading to death which, in some cases, may have occurred months later.
• "POW" in Notes means Prisoner of War
  Prisoner of war
  A prisoner of war or enemy prisoner of war is a person, whether civilian or combatant, who is held in custody by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict...
  
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