Chosen Army of Japan

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= Japanese Chosen Army


caption= Surrender of Japanese Forces in Southern Korea
dates= 1904-03-11 - 1945-08-15　
country= Empire of Japan
allegiance=
branch= Imperial Japanese Army
type= Infantry
role= Corps
garrison=Keijo
nickname=
battles=command structure
name= Japanese Chosen Army
date=1945
parent=Japanese Seventeenth Area Army
subordinate=

* 19th Infantry Division
* 20th Infantry Division

The nihongo|Japanese Chosen Army|朝鮮軍|Chosen gun was an army of the Imperial Japanese Army, forming a garrison force in Korea under Japanese rule.

History

Japanese forces occupied large portions of the Empire of Korea during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905, and a substantial nihongo|Korean Garrison Army| 韓国駐剳軍|Kankoku Chusatsugun was established in Seoul to protect the Japanese embassy and civilians on 11 March 1904. After the Annexation of Korea by the Empire of Japan in 1910, this force was renamed the "Chosen Chusatsugun", and was further renamed the Japanese Chosen Army on 1 June 1918. The primary task of the Chosen Army was to guard the Korean peninsula against possible incursions from the Soviet Union; however, its units were also used for suppression of nationalist uprisings and political dissent within Korea itself. The Chosen Army also came to the assistance of the Kwantung Army in its unauthorized invasion of Manchuria in 1937. In 1941, the Chosen Army was subordinated to the General Defense Command.

In 1945, as the situation in the Pacific War was turning increasing against Japan, the Chosen Army was transformed into the Japanese Seventeenth Area Army, and subsequently placed under the overall administrative command of the Kwantung Army. Its two undermanned infantry divisions were unable to withstand the massive Soviet Red Army armored and amphibious assault on Korea during Operation August Storm. After the surrender of Japan, the Chosen Army remained armed to maintain public order under the arrival of substantial Allied forces to take control.

List of Commanders

Commanding officer

Chief of Staff

References

*cite book
last = Frank
first = Richard B
coauthors =
year = 1999
title = Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire
publisher = Random House
location = New York
id = ISBN 0-679-41424-X
*cite book
last = Jowett
first = Bernard
coauthors =
year = 1999
title = The Japanese Army 1931-45 (Volume 2, 1942-45)
publisher = Osprey Publishing
location =
id = ISBN 1841763543
*cite book
last = Madej
first = Victor
coauthors =
year = 1981
title = Japanese Armed Forces Order of Battle, 1937-1945
publisher = Game Publishing Company
location =
id = ASIN: B000L4CYWW
*cite book
last = Marston
first = Daniel
coauthors =
year = 2005
title = The Pacific War Companion: From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima
publisher = Osprey Publishing
location =
id = ISBN 1841768820

External links

*cite web
last = Wendel
first = Marcus
url = http://www.axishistory.com/index.php?id=7662
title = Axis History Factbook
work = Japanese Korea Army

ee also

*Korea under Japanese rule
*List of Korea-related topics
*Armies of the Imperial Japanese Army