Inoue Shigeyoshi

Inoue Shigeyoshi

Inoue Shigeyoshi ( Japanese 井上 成 美 , also read Inoue Seibi ; born December 9, 1889 in Sendai , † December 15, 1975 in Yokosuka ) was a Japanese admiral .

Life

Inoue graduated from the Naval Officers Academy in 1909 as the second best of his class. In the period after the First World War he served as a naval attaché in Switzerland and France before attending the naval college from 1922 to 1924 . From 1927 to 1929 there was another stay in Europe as a naval attaché in Italy. From 1933 to 1935, Inoue was the captain of the battleship Hiei , which was used as a training ship at the time. He then served in the rank of rear admiral as chief of staff in the Yokosuka Marine District. In October 1937 he was appointed head of the Naval Affairs Bureau. Two years later he became Chief of Staff of the China Area Fleet and in this position was promoted to Vice Admiral.

In October 1940 Inoue took over the management of the aviation office in the naval ministry and in this function submitted a memorandum on the increased expansion of naval aviation forces at the expense of battleship construction. This ultimately led to his transfer and appointment as Commander in Chief of the 4th Fleet in August 1941. With this Inoue was involved in the attack on Guam and the Battle of Wake at the beginning of the Pacific War from Truk . In February 1942, units under his command Rabaul took New Britain , which became the new base of the 4th Fleet. After the failure of Operation MO to capture Port Moresby due to the Battle of the Coral Sea , Inoue's star sank with his former intercessor and chief of the Combined Fleet , Yamamoto Isoroku . In October 1942 he was recalled and appointed head of the Naval College. Only in August 1944 did he find a new use when he became Vice Minister for Naval Affairs under Yonai Mitsumasa . In this position he was promoted to admiral in May 1945.

Inoue was transferred to the reserve in October 1945 and then worked as a teacher of English and music in Yokosuka. He died in 1975 at the age of 86.

literature

• Agawa Hiroyuki : 井上 成 美 (Inoue Seibi). Shinchōsha, 1986.

Web links

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Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . So Inoue is the family name, Shigeyoshi the first name.