Commanders of The IJN 3rd Fleet
Commander in chief
| Rank | Name | Dates | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Admiral | Shichiro Kataoka | 28 December 1903 | 20 December 1905 |
| X | Disbanded | 20 December 1905 | 13 December 1915 | |
| 1 | Admiral | Kakuichi Murakami | 13 December 1915 | 6 April 1917 |
| 2 | Admiral | Ryokitsu Arima | 6 April 1917 | 1 December 1918 |
| 3 | Admiral | Teijiro Kuroi | 1 December 1918 | 1 December 1919 |
| 4 | Admiral | Kaneo Nomaguchi | 1 December 1919 | 1 December 1920 |
| 5 | Admiral | Kozaburo Oguri | 1 December 1920 | 1 December 1921 |
| 6 | Admiral | Baron Kantarō Suzuki | 1 December 1921 | 27 July 1922 |
| 7 | Vice-Admiral | Naoe Nakano | 27 July 1922 | 1 December 1922 |
| 8 | Disbanded | 1 December 1922 | 2 February 1932 | |
| 1 | Admiral | Kichisaburō Nomura | 2 February 1932 | 28 June 1932 |
| 2 | Vice-Admiral | Seizo Sakonji | 28 June 1932 | 1 December 1932 |
| 3 | Admiral | Mitsumasa Yonai | 1 December 1932 | 15 September 1933 |
| 4 | Vice-Admiral | Shinjiro Imamura | 15 September 1933 | 15 November 1934 |
| 5 | Admiral | Gengo Hyakutake | 15 November 1934 | 1 December 1935 |
| 6 | Admiral | Koshirō Oikawa | 1 December 1935 | 1 December 1936 |
| 7 | Admiral | Kiyoshi Hasegawa | 1 December 1936 | 25 April 1938 |
| 8 | Admiral | Koshirō Oikawa | 25 April 1938 | 15 November 1939 |
| X | Disbanded | 15 November 1939 | 10 April 1941 | |
| 1 | Admiral | Ibō Takahashi | 10 April 1941 | 10 March 1942 |
| X | Disbanded | 10 March 1942 | 14 July 1942 | |
| 1 | Admiral | Chuichi Nagumo | 14 July 1942 | 11 November 1942 |
| 2 | Vice-Admiral | Jisaburō Ozawa | 11 November 1942 | 15 November 1944 |
Chief of Staff
| Rank | Name | Dates | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rear-Admiral | Shizuka Nakamura | 28 December 1903 | 12 January 1905 |
| 2 | Vice-Admiral | Koshi Saito | 12 January 1905 | 2 November 1905 |
| X | Disbanded | 20 December 1905 | 13 December 1915 | |
| 1 | Rear-Admiral | Shichitaro Takagi | 13 December 1915 | 1 April 1916 |
| 2 | Rear-Admiral | Tokutaro Hiraga | 1 April 1916 | 19 March 1917 |
| 3 | Vice-Admiral | Hisatsune Iida | 19 March 1917 | 1 December 1917 |
| 4 | Vice-Admiral | Shichigoro Saito | 1 December 1917 | 1 December 1918 |
| 5 | Vice-Admiral | Shinzaburo Furukawa | 1 December 1918 | 10 June 1919 |
| 6 | Vice-Admiral | Kosaburo Uchida | 10 June 1919 | 20 November 1920 |
| 7 | Rear-Admiral | Hisamori Taguchi | 20 November 1920 | 1 December 1921 |
| 8 | Vice-Admiral | Naomoto Komatsu | 1 December 1921 | 1 December 1922 |
| X | Disbanded | 1 December 1922 | 2 February 1932 | |
| 1 | Admiral | Shigetarō Shimada | 2 February 1932 | 28 June 1932 |
| 2 | Vice-Admiral | Shigeru Kikuno | 28 June 1932 | 1 April 1933 |
| 3 | Rear-Admiral | Seizaburo Mitsui | 1 April 1933 | 15 November 1933 |
| 4 | Admiral | Shirō Takasu | 15 November 1933 | 15 November 1934 |
| 5 | Vice-Admiral | Eijiro Kondo | 15 November 1934 | 2 December 1935 |
| 6 | Vice-Admiral | Seiichi Iwamura | 2 December 1935 | 16 November 1936 |
| 7 | Vice-Admiral | Rokuzo Sugiyama | 16 November 1936 | 25 April 1938 |
| 8 | Vice-Admiral | Jinichi Kusaka | 25 April 1938 | 23 October 1939 |
| 9 | Admiral | Shigeyoshi Inoue | 23 October 1939 | 15 November 1939 |
| X | Disbanded | 15 November 1939 | 10 April 1941 | |
| 1 | Vice-Admiral | Toshihisa Nakamura | 10 April 1941 | 10 March 1942 |
| 2 | Vice-Admiral | Ryunosuke Kusaka | 14 July 1942 | 23 November 1942 |
| 3 | Vice-Admiral | Sadayoshi Yamada | 23 November 1942 | 6 December 1943 |
| 4 | Rear-Admiral | Keizo Komura | 6 December 1943 | 1 October 1944 |
| 5 | Rear-Admiral | Sueo Obayashi | 1 October 1944 | 15 November 1944 |
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