Name Kanji Formed Dissolved Callsign Location, notes Provisional Air Division (Japan) 航空兵団 1 August 1936 1 June 1942 - Tokyo -North China -Manchuria 1st Air Division (Japan) 第1飛行師団 10 June 1938 1945 Tip (鏑 Kabura 1045 Kakamigahara -Sapporo -Obihiro , was dissolved in 1942 and re-formed in 1943 2nd Air Division (Japan) 第2飛行師団 24 July 1937 17 May 1945 Vulture (鷲 Tip Manchuria -Philippines (1944) -Singapore (1945) [ 1] 3rd Air Division (Japan) 第3飛行師団 15 April 1942 14 February 1944 Hawk (隼 Hayabusa 2375 China -French Indochina -Dutch East Indies -Myanmar -China 4th Air Division (Japan) 第4飛行師団 15 April 1942 1944/1945 Wing (翼 Tsubasa Manchuria -Philippines (1944) merged in 2nd Air Division 5th Air Division (Japan) 第5飛行師団 15 April 1942 1945 High (高 Taka Myanmar -Phnom Penh(1945) 6th Air Division (Japan) 第6飛行師団 26 November 1942 1 August 1944 Ocean (洋 hiroshi ) Rabaul -New Guinea 7th Air Division (Japan) 第7飛行師団 28 January 1943 21 July 1945 Raid (襲 New Guinea -Ambon (1944) -Philippines (1944) 8th Air Division (Japan) 第8飛行師団 10 June 1943 1945 True (誠 Makoto 18900 Taipei 9th Air Division (Japan) 第9飛行師団 10 December 1943 1945 Soaring (翔 Kakeru Palembang 10th Air Division (Japan) 第10飛行師団 8 March 1944 1945 Soaring Ambition (天翔 Tensho Tokyo 11th Air Division (Japan) 第11飛行師団 15 July 1944 1945 Soaring Eagles (天鷲 Amawashi ) Taisho Airfield 12th Air Division (Japan) 第12飛行師団 15 July 1944 1945 Soaring Wind (天風 Tenpu Kozuki Airfield 13th Air Division (Japan) 第13飛行師団 26 February 1945 1945 Pioneer Hawks (隼魁 Hanguchi 51st Air Division (Japan) 第51飛行師団 ? 1945 ? ? [ 2] 52nd Air Division (Japan) 第52飛行師団 1935 1945 ? former Kumagayari flight school 53rd Air Division (Japan) 第53飛行師団 ? 1945 ? ? 54th Air Division (Japan) 第54飛行師団 ? 1945 ? ? 55th Air Division (Japan) 第55飛行師団 ? 1945 ? ? Teishin Shudan 第1挺進集団 ? 1945 ? paratroopers Tachikawa Training Air Maintenance division 立川教導航空整備師団 20 June 1944 1945 ? former Tachikawa flight school in Tachikawa Airfield Mito Training Air Transport division 水戸教導航空通信師団 May 1945 1945 ? former Army air transport school in Ibaraki Airport Shimoshidu Training Air division 下志津教導飛行師団 June 1945 1945 ? former Shimoshidu air school in Wakaba-ku Akenokyo Training Air division 明野教導飛行師団 June 1945 1945 ? former Akenokyo air school in Obata, Mie Hitachi Training Air division 常陸教導飛行師団 November 1944 1945 ? former Hitachi air school in Hitachi, Ibaraki , split from Akenokyo flight school in March 1944 Hokota Training Air division 鉾田教導飛行師団 June 1944 1945 ? former Hokota air school in Hokota, Ibaraki Hamamatsu Training Air division 浜松教導飛行師団 June 1944 1945 ? former Hamamatsu Army air school in Hamamatsu Utsunomiya Training Air division 宇都宮教導飛行師団 June 1944 1945 ? former Shirokiko Army air school in Tokorozawa, Saitama , later in Northeast China .