List of Japanese institutions (1930–1945)

This list of major Japanese institutions covers government and some private institutions and businesses, for the period 1930 to August 1945.

Japanese Central Government

Imperial affairs

• Imperial Household Ministry
  • Privy Council (Japan)
  • Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal of Japan

Legislature

• Diet of Japan
  • House of Peers
  • House of Representatives of Japan
• Imperial Rule Assistance Association

Cabinet

• Prime Minister of Japan
• Ministry of War of Japan
• Ministry of the Navy of Japan
• Munitions Ministry (Japan)
• Ministry of Education, Science and Culture (Japan)
• Ministry of Welfare (Japan)
• Foreign Affairs Ministry
• Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
• Ministry of Finance (Japan)
• Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (Japan)
• Railway Ministry (Japan)
• Home Ministry
• Ministry of Justice (Japan)
• Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (Japan)
• Governor-General of Korea
• Governor-General of Taiwan
• Governor-General of Kwantung
• Ministry of Colonial Affairs (Japan)
• Ministry of Greater East Asia
• South Seas Mandate
• Governor of the South Seas Mandate

Judicial

• Supreme Court of Judicature of Japan
• Tokyo High Court
• Tokyo District Court

National security institutions

• Imperial General Headquarters
• Supreme War Council (Japan)
• Imperial Japanese Army General Staff Office
• Imperial Japanese Army
• Kwantung Army
• Imperial Japanese Army Academy
• Army War College (Japan)
• Imperial Japanese Navy
• Imperial Japanese Navy General Staff
• Imperial Japanese Navy Academy
• Naval War College (Japan)
• Imperial Guard of Japan
• Inspectorate General of Military Training
• Kempeitai (Army Military Police)
• Tokkeitai (Navy Military Police)
• Tokko
• Keishicho
• Koban (police box)
• Inspectorate General of Aviation
• Tachikawa Army Arsenal
• Sagami Army Arsenal
• Osaka Army Arsenal
• Yokosuka Naval Arsenal
• Omura Naval Arsenal
• Koza Naval Arsenal
• Kasumigara Naval Arsenal
• Aomori Naval Arsenal

Political organizations related to government

• Tonarigumi
• Imperial Youth Federation
• Imperial Youth Corps
• Imperial Volunteer Corps
• Nation Service Society
• National Spiritual Mobilization Movement
• Showa Kenkyukai

Informative government agencies

• Domei-Tsushin Press Agency
• Radio Tokyo

Other associations and groups

• Japan Olympic Association
• Japanese Red Cross
• Boy Scouts of Nippon

Newspapers

• Asahi Shimbun
• Chunichi Shimbun
• Hokkaido Shimbun
• Japan Times
• Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun
• Osaka Mainichi Shimbun
• Hochi Shimbun
• Nihon Keizai Shimbun
• Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun
• Nishinippon Shimbun
• Sankei Shimbun
• Tokyo Shimbun
• Yomiuri Shimbun

Educational institutions

• National school public system (Kokumin Gakkou)
• Imperial university system
  • Tokyo Imperial University
  • Kyoto Imperial University
  • Osaka Imperial University
  • Nagoya Imperial University
  • Kyushu Imperial University
  • Hokkaido Imperial University
  • Keijo Imperial University
  • Taihoku Imperial University
• Gakushuin Peers School

Scientific research

• RIKEN

Official Religious institutions

• State Shinto
  • Yasukuni Jinja

Nationalized businesses

• Bank of Chosen
• Bank of Taiwan
• Central Bank of Manchou
• Chosen Railway Company
• East Asia Travel Corporation
• East Chinese Railway
• Imperial Japanese Airways
• Karafuto Mining and Railway Company
• Manchurian Industrial Development Company
• Manshukoku Hikoki Seizo KK
• Manshukoku Koku KK
• Nanyo Kohatsu Kabushiki Kaisha (South Seas Development Company)
• Yawata Iron & Steel Company
• Nippon Yusen
• Showa Steel Works
• South Manchuria Railway
• Taiwan Takushoku Kabushiki Kaisha

Private nationalist organizations

• Aikoku Kinroto (The Patriotic Labor Party)
• Aikoku Seiji Domei (Patriotic Government League)
• Aikoku Taishu-to (Patriotic Mass Party)
• Aikyojuku (Native-Land-Loving School)
• Bokyoteishintai (Devoted Squad Defending Against Communism)
• Dai Nippon Sekisei-kai (Great Japan Sincerity Association)
• Dai Nippon Kokusai (Great Japan Spirit or Essence Society)
• Dai Nippon Seigi-dan (Great Japan Justice Society)
• Dai Nippon Seinen-to (Great Japan Youth Party)
• Dai Nippon Seisanto (Japan Production Party)
• Daiko-sha (Great Work Society or Great Unification Society)
• Dobunkai
• Dokuritsu Seinen Sha (Independence Youth Society)
• Futabakai( Futabakai)
• Genyosha/(Black Ocean Society)
• Goko-kai (Society for Protection of the Emperor)
• Gyochisa (The Society of Action)
• Hoirusha Kai (Military Service Man's League)
• Jinmmu Kai (Jimmu Society)
• Kakusei-kai
• Kaigun Kyokai (Navy League)
• Kakumeiso (Society of the Cry of the Crane)
• Kanzan So (The Mountain of Sweat Society)
• Kayosha (National Assembly Pressure Group)
• Kenki-kai (Imperial Flag Society)
• Kenkokukai (Society for the Foundation of the State)
• Ketsumeidan (Blood Brotherhood)
• Kokumin Domei (National Alliance)
• Kokuryu-kai/Black Dragon Society
  • Roninkai (Black Dragon Society intelligence branch in Mongolia, 1908)
  • Yurinkai (Black Dragon Society section for supporting Sun Yat-Sen in China)
• Yuzonsha
• Kokkyo Semmei-dan (National Principle Society)
• Kokka Shakai Shugi Gakumei (The National Socialist League)
• Kokuhonsha (Basis of the Country Society or The National Foundations Society),
• Kokuikai (The Society for the Maintenance of National Prestige)
• Meikoku-kai (Illustrious Virtue Society)
• Naichi-Gaiko-Sakushin Domei (League for the Improvement of Administration and Diplomacy)
• Nihon Kokusui Kai (Japanese Patriotic Society)
• Minami no kai(Society of the South)
• Nomin Kesshitai (The Death Defying Farmers' Band)
• Sakurakai (Cherry Blossom Society)
• San Roku Kurabu (The '36 Club)
• Sekka Boshidan (Anti-Red League)
• Tenketo Kai (Heaven Spade Party)
• Tenyukyo (Society of the Celestial Salvation of the Oppressed, a Genyosha subordinate group)
• Tohokai (Far East Society)
• Yamato Minro-kai (Japanese National Society)

See also

• List of Japanese political figures in early Showa period