Imperial Japanese Army Academy
An Army officer school of Japan (Japanese陆军士 官 学校, Rikugun Shikan Gakko ), also main military academy, the training officer of the Imperial Japanese Army was carried out. She offered a basic course for graduates of the regional cadet schools and middle schools and a secondary course for officer candidates.
History
The army officer school was established in 1868 in Kyoto under the name Heigakkō and renamed in 1874 in Rikugun Shikan Gakko and moved to Ichigaya, Tokyo. From 1898, she was placed under the Army Educational Administration.
In 1937 the school was divided. The secondary course was laid by Sagamihara in Kanagawa Prefecture during the basic course to Asaka in Saitama Prefecture was moved. The celebrations for the 50th graduating class at December 20, 1937 have already been held in the new premises in Sagamihara and attended among others by Tenno Hirohito. In 1938 the training for the officers of the Army Air Force had been moved into its own school.
As of June 1945, the school was evacuated as a precaution due to the intensified Allied air raids on Japan and laid the approximately 3,000 students on a long-term field exercise in the Nagano Prefecture.
After the surrender of Japan in September 1945, a battalion of the 1st U.S. Cavalry Division took over the campus of the few remaining guards. End of the year, the school was formally dissolved. The school campus in Sagamihara is currently part of a base of the United States Forces Japan.
As the successor organization, the National Defence Academy, the Japanese ground Self-Defense Forces may apply.
Training
Between 1937 and 1945, 18,476 visited the army officer cadet school.
Candidates for the school was usually among the graduates of the three-year regional cadet schools (陆军 幼年 学校, Rikugun Yonen Gakko ) in Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Hiroshima, Sendai and Kumamoto, the paid around 1910 annually about 300 graduates or high school graduates selected which met the physical and mental conditions. The visit of the army cadet schools was there mainly reserved for the children of officers or soldiers fallen in battle. The visit of the officers' school was also partially active soldiers under 25 years old can, if they passed the required tests.
In addition to theoretical training and martial arts and horse riding was taught. After two years of basic training graduates were for eight months with the rank of sergeant placed in an infantry regiment in order to familiarize themselves with the army life and own first command tasks. This was followed by the 20 -month secondary education, which was completed with a new four-month use in their infantry regiment. Existence of the cadet his final exam, he was taken into the army with the rank of second lieutenant and was given the opportunity to study at the Military Academy.
Throughout its existence, many foreign cadets underwent training at the military school, mainly from China. Among them was the future president of the Republic of China, Chiang Kai- shek.