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Third Army (Japan)

Field	Value
unit_name	Japanese Third Army
image	Japanese 11 inch siege gun shells Port Stanley 1904.jpg
image_size	150px
caption	IJA 3rd Army at Port Arthur, 1904
dates	May 1904-August 1945
country	Empire of Japan
branch
type	Infantry
role	Corps
garrison	Yanji, Manchukuo
nickname	Iwa
battles	Russo-Japanese War
Soviet invasion of Manchuria

Soviet invasion of Manchuria

3rd Army Headquarters
- 132nd Independent Mixed Brigade
- 101st Independent Mixed Regiment
- 2nd Independent Heavy Artillery Regiment
- 3rd Independent Heavy Artillery Regiment
- Tungning Heavy Artillery Regiment
- 2nd Independent Heavy Artillery Company
- 1st Independent Heavy Mortar Company
- 1st independent mobile brigade (from June 1945)
- 55th Signal Regiment
- Najin Fortress Garrison
- Najin Fortress Artillery Unit
- 460th Specially Established Guard Battalion
- 623rd Specially Established Guard Company
- 651st Specially Established Guard Company
79th Infantry Division
112th Infantry Division
127th Infantry Division
128th Infantry Division

The Japanese 3rd Army was an army of the Imperial Japanese Army based in Manchukuo as a garrison force under the overall command of the Kwantung Army during World War II, but its history dates to the Russo-Japanese War.

History

The Japanese 3rd Army was initially raised during the Russo-Japanese War under the command of General Nogi Maresuke. In the initial stages of the war, its primary mission was the Siege of Port Arthur. After the fall of that Russian stronghold, it was transferred north, where it played a crucial role in the subsequent Japanese drive towards Mukden in the closing stages of the war. It was disbanded at the end of the war.

The Japanese 3rd Army was raised again on January 13, 1938, in Manchukuo as a garrison force to guard the eastern borders against possible incursions by the Soviet Red Army. It afterwards came under the command of the Japanese First Area Army in July 1942. As the war situation deteriorated for the Japanese in southeast Asia, the more experienced units and much of the equipment of the IJA 3rd Army were transferred to other units.

During the Soviet invasion of Manchuria, its poorly trained and under-equipped forces were no match for the experienced battle-hardened Soviet Army, and it was forced back from various locations in Kirin province to the Korean border, surrendering at the end of the war in Yanji and Hunchun, in what is now part of the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture of northeast China.

List of commanders

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