Air Division 9th Air Division Organization of Burmese Army Detachment Commanders-in-Chief, Burma Area Army Masakazu Kawabe:- Commanding General, Burma Area Army Heitarō Kimura:- Commanding General, Burma Area Army Chief of Staff, Burma Area Army Shinichi Tanaka:- Chief of Staff, Burma Area Army Commanders in regular Armies, Burma Area Shinichi Tanaka:- 18th Division Commander (Burma) Masakazu Kawabe led the (Burma Area Army) Shozo Sakurai Commanded the Twenty-eighth Army Kōtoku Satō command the 31st Division Yuzo Matsuyama 56th Division, commanded by Lieutenant General Masabumi Yamauchi led the 15th Division Renya Mutaguchi, who had command of the Fifteenth Army Hideo Iwakuro: Chief of Staff 55th Division, Burma and Chief of Staff 28th Army, Burma Takeakira Isomura: Deputy Chief of Staff Burma Area Army, Burma Haruki Isayama, : Chief of Staff 15th Army, Burma Shōjirō Iida: General Officer Commanding 15th Army, Thailand-Burma Masaki Honda: General Officer Commanding 33rd Army, Burma Jiro Ichida : Vice Chief of Staff Burma Area Army Tuyoji Hirano,: Commanding Officer Kempeitai 25th Army, Sumatra Toshiji Aida : Commanding Officer Infantry Group 18th Division, Burma Iwaichi Fujiwara: Chief of Intelligence 15th Army, Burma Tadashi Hanaya: General Officer Commanding 55th Division, Burma Yoshihide Hayashi: Commanding Officer 24th Independent Mixed Brigade, Burma and General Officer Commanding 53rd Division, Burma Operative units in Burma 1st Company/2nd Tank Regiment - First Lieut. Okada 14th Tank Regiment - Lieut.Colonel Ueda Air Units in Burma Japanese Army units: 81st Sentai Japanese Navy units Kanoya Air Group Yamada Air Group Toko Air Group Seaplane tender Sagara Maru 22nd Koku Sentai Japanese Units in Thailand Eighteenth Area Army Commander Aketo Nakamura:- Eighteenth Area Army Commander Shihachi Katamura:- Fifteenth Army Commander Aketo Nakamura: Led The Eighteenth Area Army, was stationed in Thailand Masachika Hirata: General Officer Commanding 22nd Division, Thailand Tadashi Hanaya: Chief of Staff 18th Area Army, Thailand Shōjirō Iida: General Officer Commanding 15th Army, Thailand Katsumi Adachi: General Officer Commanding 4th Special Railway Corps, Thailand Hitoshi Hamada: Chief of Staff 39th Army, Thailand: Deputy Chief of Staff 18th Area Army, Thailand and Second Superintendent of Railways, Thailand Conformation of Japanese forces in the Dutch East Indies Commanders in Japanese forces detachment, Dutch East Indies Kenzo Kitano:- Nineteenth Army Commander (Headquarters: Amboina) Yuichiro Nagano:- Commander Sixteenth Army and 48th Division (Headquarters: Java) Moritake Tanabe:- Twenty-fifth Army and the Imperial Guard Division unit (Headquarters: Sumatra) Fusataro Teshima:- Second Army Commander with leading of 5th, 32nd, 35th, and 36th Divisions comprised