9th Division (Imperial Japanese Army)

9th Division
9th Division HQ at Kanazawa, Japan
Active1 October 1898 – 1945
Country Empire of Japan
Branch Imperial Japanese Army
TypeInfantry
Garrison/HQKanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
Nickname(s)Warrior Division
EngagementsRusso-Japanese War
Japanese intervention in Siberia
Manchurian Incident
Second Sino-Japanese War
World War II
Commanders
Notable
commanders
Oshima Hisanao
Kenkichi Ueda
Kiichiro Higuchi

The 9th Division (第9師団, Dai-Kyū Shidan) was an infantry division in the Imperial Japanese Army. Its tsūshōgō code name was the Warrior Division (武兵団, Take-heidan) or 1515 or 1573.[1] The 9th Division was one of six infantry divisions newly raised by the Imperial Japanese Army after the First Sino-Japanese War (1894–1895). Its troops were recruited primarily from communities in the Hokuriku region of Japan (Ishikawa, Toyama and Fukui, with its headquarters located within the grounds of Kanazawa Castle.

  1. ^ Madez, Japanese Armed Forces Order of Battle, 1937–1945, p. 35.