Major-General Takeo Ito was a Japanese Infantry Officer, born in Fukuoka, Japan.
He was promoted to rank of Major-General on 25 August 1941 and to rank of Lieutenant-General on 26 November 1944.
Assumed command of 114th Infantry Regiment on 1 September 1941 and became a commander of Japanese 38th Infantry Division on 25 August 1941.
He participated in the campaign of the China Incident as a commander of 114th Infantry Regiment and during the Pacific War, he took part in the campaigns of the Dutch East Indies and Guadalcanal as the commander of 38th Infantry Division.
After the battle on Guadalcanal, he was stationed on the New Ireland Island as a commander of 40th Independent Mixed Brigade (assumed command on 8 July 1944).
