List of World War II aces from Japan

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.

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A

Name	Kills	Notes
Kenichi Abe	10 (five jointly)	IJN; survived World War II.^[1]
Takahide Aioi	10	IJN; Five of the victories came in the Second Sino-Japan War; survived World War II.^[2]
Sadaaki Akamatsu	27	IJN; Eleven of the victories came in the Second Sino-Japan War; survived World War II^[3]
Satoru Anabuki	39	IJA; survived World War II^[4]
Katsumi Anma (安間克巳)	27	IJA, KIA 8 April 1942
Yoshitugu Aramaki (荒蒔義次)	5	IJA
Yoshisuke Arita (有田義助)	5	IJN
Mitsuzo Asai	7	IJA
Jiro Asano (浅野二郎)	10	IJA
Tomita Atake (阿武富太)	10	IJN

B

Name	Kills	Awards	Notes
Takeo Banno (阪野隆雄)	10		IJN, KIA 7 October 1943
Kisaji Beppu	5		IJA, KIA 7.2.1942

C

Jirō Chōno

E

Name	Kills	Notes
Yuichi Ema (江馬友一)	6	IJN, KIA 29 October 1944
Masuaki Endo (遠藤桝秋)	14	IJN, KIA 7 June 1943
Sachio Endo (遠藤幸男)	8	IJN, KIA 14 January 1945
Toyoki Eto (江藤豊樹)	12 and 1 shared destroyed, 4 probably destroyed.	IJA

F

Name	Kills	Notes
Iyozo Fujita (藤田怡与蔵)	11 (42?)	IJN
Kihei Fujiwara (藤原喜平)	5	IJN
Sumio Fukuda (福田澄夫)	11	IJN, KIA 24 October 1944
Yoshio Fukui	11, 4 probable	IJN
Shigeo Fukumoto (福本繁夫)	72	IJN
Yonesuke Fukuyama	7	IJA
Goro Furugori (古郡吾郎)	25 +	IJA, KIA 3 November 1944
Haruyoshi Furukawa (古河春義)	5 +	IJA

G

Name	Kills	Awards	Notes
Hiroshi Gomi	7		IJA
Kurakazu Goto	8		IJN, KIA 9 September 1943

H

Name	Kills	Notes
Matsuo Hagiri (羽切松雄)	13	IJN
Tomio Hanada (花田富男)	25	IJA
Watari Handa	7	IJN
Iwataro Hazawa (羽沢岩太郎)	15	IJA, KIA 14 January 1945
Kaname Harada (原田要)^[5]	9	IJN
Kichigoro Haraguchi (原口吉五郎)	24	IJA
Yoshiro Hashiguchi (橋口嘉郎)	10	IJN, KIA 25 October 1944
Kazuo Hattori (服部一夫)	10	IJN, KIA 10 March 1944
Sakuji Hayashi (林作次)	6	IJN, KIA 28 May 1945
Takeomi Hayashi (林武臣)	7	IJA
Yoshishige Hayashi (林喜重)	5	IJN, KIA 21 April 1945
Nobuji Negishi (根岸延次)	6	IJA
Hatsuo Hidaka	6	IJN
Yoshimi Hidaka (日高義巳)	20	KIA 7.6.1943 IJN
Ichiro Higashiyama (東山市郎)	9	IJN
Yohei Hinoki (ja:檜與平)	12	Died 1991 IJA
Tomio Hirohata (広畑富男)	14	IJA, 22 April 1945
Yoshio Hirose (広瀬吉雄)	7	IJA, 22 December 1944
Minoru Honda (本田稔)	17	IJN
Toshiaki Honda (本田敏秋)	5 +	IJN, 13 May 1942
Mitsuo Hori (堀光雄)	11	IJN
Isamu Hosono (細野勇)	26	IJA, 6 October 1943

I

Name	Kills	Notes
Chuichi Ichikawa (市川忠一)	10 +	KIFA September 1954 IJA
Matao Ichioka (市岡又夫)	11	IJN
Fusata Iida (飯田房太)	7	Crashed after being hit at Pearl Harbour IJN
Masao Iizuka (飯塚雅夫)	8	IJN
Shigeo Iizuka ?
Tomesaku Igarashi (五十嵐留作)	~20	KIA 17.6.1944 IJA
Fumisuke Ikuno (生野文介)	6	IJA
Hideaki Inayama (稲山英明)	5 +	IJA
Misao Inoue (井上操)	16	KIFA 15.12.1944. IJA
Teigo Ishida (石田真吾)	9	KIA 16.5.1945 IJN
Susumu Ishihara (石原進)	16	IJN
Shizuo Ishii (石井静夫)	29	IJN
Isamu Ishii (石井勇)	10	IJN
Seiji Ishikawa (石川清治)	5	IJN
Tadashi Ishikawa (石川正)	5	IJA
Kanshi Ishikawa (石川寛志)	19	IJA
Chitoshi Isozaki	12	IJA
Ishizuka Tokuyasu	15	IJA
Kiyoshi Ito (伊藤清)	18 & 14 damaged	IJN
Fujitaro Ito (伊藤藤太郎)	13 +	IJA
Naoyuki Ito (伊藤直之)	8	Died 2010 IJA
Susumu Ito	5	IJN
Tsutomu Iwai (岩井勉)	11	IJN
Yoshio Iwaki (岩城芳雄)	8	IJN
Tetsuzo Iwamoto	80 +	IJN
Iwahashi Jozo	20+	KIA 23.4.1944
Hideo Izumi (和泉秀雄)	9	KIA 30.5.1942, IJN

J

Name	Kills	Awards	Notes
Ryotaro Jobo (ja:上坊良太郎)	30		Died 2012

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

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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

R

Name	Kills	Awards	Notes
Shinobu Terada	8

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

U

Name	Kills	Notes
Minoru UCHIDA	10
Sadao UEHARA	13
Kazushi 'Popo' UTO (ja:羽藤一志)	19	KIA 13 September 1942

W

Name	Kills	Notes
Yoshio WAJIMA	11	KIA 23 February 1944
Yukiyoshi WAKAMATSU (ja:若松幸禧)	20	KIA 18 December 1944
Hideo WATANABE	16
WATANABE	6

Y

Name	Kills	Awards	Notes
Bunichi YAMAGUCHI	19
Sadao YAMAGUCHI	12		KIA 4 July 1944
Fumikazu YAMAGUSHI	19
Akira Yamamoto	12		KIA 24 November 1944
Ichirō Yamamoto	11		KIA 19 January 1944
Tomezo YAMAMOTO	11		KIA 24 June 1944
Tadao YAMANAKA	9
Koshiro YAMASHITA	11+ 1 shared+ 1 probable	KIA 30/3/1944
Sahei YAMASHITA	13		KIA 9 February 1943
Mitsuo YAMATO	8
Ichirobei YAMAZAKI	14		KIA 4 July 1943
Kenji YANAGIYA	8
Shigeru YANO	8		KIA 17 April 1942
Kozaburo YASUI	11		KIA 19 June 1944
Tamotsu YOKOYAMA (横山保)	5
Shokichi YONEKAWA
Tadayoshi YONEKAWA	6		KIFA
Katsuyoshi YOSHIDA	10
Mototsuna YOSHIDA	14		KIA 7 August 1942
Yoshio Yoshida	7
Hiroji YOSHIHARA	8
Keisaku YOSHIMURA	10		KIA 25 October 1942
Satoshi YOSHINO	15		KIA 9 June 1942
Yoshitaro YOSHIOKA	6
Tokushige YOSHIZAWA	9		KIA 6 January 1945
Yoshito YASUDA
Kozaburo YASUI

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.

Notes

↑ Hata, p. 331
↑ Hata, p. 339
↑ Hata, p. 252; Sakaida, pp. 176–178.
↑ Sakaida, pp. 34–35.
↑ Kakesako, Gregg, K., "Zero Ace Recalls Missions Over Midway, Pearl Harbor", Honolulu Star-Bulletin, June 5, 2010.

References

Hata, Ikuhiko; Yasuho Izawa (1975 (original) 1989 (translation)). Japanese Naval Aces and Fighter Units in World War II. Translated by Don Cyril Gorham. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-315-6. Check date values in: |date= (help)
Sakaida, Henry (2002). Aces of the Rising Sun, 1937–1945. Great Britain: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 1-84176-618-6.
King, Dan (2012). The Last Zero Fighter, Firsthand Accounts from WWII Japanese Fighter Pilots. California: Pacific Press. ISBN 978-1468178807.

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