18th Division (Imperial Japanese Army)

18th Division
IJA 18th Division Memorial, Kurume, Fukuoka
Active	13 November 1907 – 1 May 1925 9 September 1937 – 1945
Country	Empire of Japan
Branch	Imperial Japanese Army
Type	Infantry
Size	Division
Garrison/HQ	Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan
Nickname(s)	Chrysanthemum Division
Engagements	World War I Second Sino-Japanese War World War II Fall of Singapore

The 18th Division (第18師団, Dai-jūhachi Shidan) was an infantry division of the Imperial Japanese Army. Its tsūshōgō code name was the Chrysanthemum Division (菊兵團, Kiku heidan). The 18th Division was one of two infantry divisions newly raised by the Imperial Japanese Army immediately after the Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905) as part of the post war expansion of the standing Japanese military. The division received its colors on 13 November 1907. Its original headquarters was in a suburb of the city of Kurume in Fukuoka Prefecture.