Its call sign was the Kyoto Protection Division (護京兵団, Gokyo Heidan).

It was a part of the 16 simultaneously created divisions batch numbering from 140th to 160th.

[1] The division spent time from 5 May 1945 until the surrender of Japan 15 August 1945 building coastal defenses without engaging in actual combat.

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