Seiichi Kita (喜多 誠一, Kita Seiichi, December 20, 1886 – August 7, 1947) was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army, who commanded the Japanese First Area Army from September 1944 until the end of World War II.

Kita Seiichi became an infantry officer in 1907 and was military attaché to England in 1927.

In the late 1930s he was placed in command of the Japanese special intelligence services operating in north China, which had the role of managing contact with local Chinese collaborators.

As part of this, he tried to recruit such figures as former warlords Cao Kun and Wu Peifu to head the collaborationist regime the Japanese established in the region.

It was on Major General Kita's suggestions that the puppet Provisional Government of the Republic of China was eventually established in December 1937.