9th Division (Imperial Japanese Army)

9th Division
9th Division HQ at Kanazawa, Japan
Active	1 October 1898 – 1945
Country	Empire of Japan
Branch	Imperial Japanese Army
Type	Infantry
Garrison/HQ	Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
Nickname(s)	Warrior Division
Engagements	Russo-Japanese War Japanese intervention in Siberia Manchurian Incident Second Sino-Japanese War World War II
Commanders
Notable commanders	Oshima Hisanao Kenkichi Ueda Kiichiro Higuchi

The 9th Division (第9師団, Dai-Kyū Shidan) was an infantry division in the Imperial Japanese Army. Its tsūshōgō code name was the Warrior Division (武兵団, Take-heidan) or 1515 or 1573.^[1] The 9th Division was one of six infantry divisions newly raised by the Imperial Japanese Army after the First Sino-Japanese War (1894–1895). Its troops were recruited primarily from communities in the Hokuriku region of Japan (Ishikawa, Toyama and Fukui, with its headquarters located within the grounds of Kanazawa Castle.