[1] As the situation in the Pacific War against the Allies deteriorated for Japan, in early August 1944 the remaining units of the 2nd Tank Division were reassigned to the Japanese Fourteenth Area Army, and sent to the Philippines, where it was deployed on the main island of Luzon.

[3] In January 1945, the US forces made amphibious landings on Luzon and the army units pushed inland.

General Tomoyuki Yamashita held back the tank division so as not to waste them in large scale counterattacks against superior forces.

[6] The remaining tanks were used to support infantry or were dug in like pillboxes and annihilated during the remainder of the Battle of the Philippines[5] in various engagements on Luzon, Leyte and Mindanao.

In February 1945, its 11th Armored Regiment was transferred to the control of the Japanese Fifth Area Army and attached to the 91st Infantry Division.