General Defense Command

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The General Defense Command was a major Imperial Japanese Army headquarters responsible for organizing and directing the defense of the Japanese home islands during World War II.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Imperial Japanese Army command
military headquarters
activeDuring 1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
conflict World War II
country Japan
surface form: Empire of Japan
dissolvedIn 1945
garrison Tokyo NERFINISHED
historicalPeriod Shōwa era NERFINISHED
locationServed Hokkaido NERFINISHED
Honshu NERFINISHED
Japanese home islands
Kyushu NERFINISHED
Shikoku NERFINISHED
militaryBranch Imperial Japanese Army
militaryFunction operational command
strategic defense planning
notableFor centralized control of home island defenses
coordination of air raid warning systems
coordination of anti-aircraft artillery units
partOf Japanese home defense system
responsibleFor air defense of the Japanese home islands
anti-aircraft defenses
civil defense coordination
organization of regional armies for homeland defense
role defense of the Japanese home islands
direction of homeland defense
organization of homeland defense
subordinateTo Imperial General Headquarters NERFINISHED
theater Japanese home front
Pacific War
typeOf army-level command

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Central District Army subordinateTo General Defense Command