13th Division (Imperial Japanese Army)

13th Division
former IJA 13th Division HQ in Joetsu, Niigata
Active1 April 1905 – 1 May 1925
10 September 1937 – 1945
CountryEmpire of Japan
BranchImperial Japanese Army
TypeInfantry
Size25,000 men
Garrison/HQTakada, Japan
Nickname(s)Mirror Division
EngagementsRusso-Japanese War
Second Sino-Japanese War
World War II

The 13th Division (第13師団, Dai Jūsan Shidan) was an infantry division in the Imperial Japanese Army. Its tsūshōgō code name was the Mirror Division (鏡兵団, Kagami-heidan), and its military symbol was 13D. The 13th Division was one of four new infantry divisions raised by the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) in the closing stages of the Russo-Japanese War 1 April 1905, after it turned out what the entire IJA was committed to combat in Manchuria, leaving not a single division to guard the Japanese home islands from attack.