Editing Imperial General Headquarters (section)

===Organization of the Imperial Japanese Army – December 8, 1941===
The majority of these troops were stationed in China, [[Indochina]], Japan, [[Taiwan]], and [[Korea]].  This includes some 61 [[division (military)|division]]s, 59 [[brigade]]s, and 51 [[Squadron (aviation)|air squadrons]]. Only a fraction of Japan's military, 11 to 14 divisions and the [[South Seas Detachment]], were available for the December 1941 operations in South-East Asia and the Pacific.
[[File:Hirohito défilé.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Soldiers parading before the Showa Emperor Hirohito on Shirayuki, from an unknown newsreel circa {{circa|1930s}}]]

*Imperial General Headquarters
**IJA General Staff
***General Affairs Bureau
****Organization and Mobilization Department
****Training Department
***1st (Operations) Bureau
****Operations Department
****Defence Department
***2nd (Intelligence) Bureau
****Europe and the Americas Department
****China Department
****Russia/Soviet Union Department
****Intelligence Department
***3rd (Transport and Communications) Bureau
****Transport Department
****Communications Department
***4th (Historical) Bureau
****Military History Department
****Strategy and Tactics Department
***[[Army War College (Japan)|General Staff College]]
***Land Survey Department
**[[Ministry of War of Japan|Ministry Of War]]
**[[General Defense Command]]
**[[China Expeditionary Army]]
**[[Kwantung Army]]
**[[Southern Expeditionary Army Group]]
**Units under direct General Staff control
***[[Imperial Japanese Army Air Service]]
***4th Infantry Division
***[[South Seas Detachment]]
***1st Army Hospital
***2nd Army Hospital
***3rd Army Hospital
***Korean Remount Department
***Army Air Service Transport Department
***IGHQ Communications Department