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Inoue Shigeyoshi (1889-1975)


Photograph of Inoue Shigeyoshi

Dull (1978). Via Wikipedia Commons.

Inoue Shigeyoshi was born in Tokyo and graduated from the Japanese Naval Academy in 1909 and the Naval Staff College in 1924. He was a student in Switzerland, 1918-1920, and naval attaché in Rome, 1927-28. After serving as captain of battleship Hiei, he was promoted to rear admiral in 1935 and to vice admiral and command of China Area Fleet in 1939.

The third member of Yamamoto's Treaty Faction within the Japanese Navy, Inoue shared Yamamoto's misgivings about war against the United States as well as his faith in air power. As a result, he was "exiled" in August 1941 to command of 4 Fleet, Japan's smallest, for bluntly stating that the Japanese fleet was not a match for the U.S. fleet. It is reported that Nagumo, an ardent supporter of the Fleet Faction, once made a veiled threat against his life at a garden party, commenting on how easy it would be to slip a knife up between his ribs.

During his tenure as chief of naval aviation, in 1940, Inoue also offended many traditionalists by declaring that the construction of super-battleships was a blind response to American building plans rather than a rational policy. He argued that the advent of submarines and aircraft had turned the naval battleground into a three-dimensional arena, and that strategic and tactical thinking must adjust accordingly. His most radical suggestion, made in January 1941, was that control of the western Pacific could be achieved by land-based aircraft alone. This made Inoue something of a Japanese Billy Mitchell. He shared with Yamamoto the belief that the Americans would avoid the Great Decisive Battle that dominated Japanese naval strategic thinking and that the war would become a protracted war of attrition. However, he disagreed with Yamamoto on the merits of the Midway operation, which he strongly opposed.

Inoue was made the scapegoat for the strategic defeat in the Coral Sea in May 1942, and, after failing to heed intelligence warnings about the Allied landings at Guadalcanal, he was sent to command the Naval War College in October 1942. Towards the end of the war, as he began to come back into favor with the Navy hierarchy, he became Navy Vice Minister on 5 August 1944. He used what influence he had to push for peace.

Inoue was warmhearted and highly intelligent. He was also an original thinker whose realism about the world balance of forces was simply not welcomed by the Navy hierarchy.

Service record

1889-12-9   Born in Tokyo
1909-11-19     
Midshipman     
Graduates from Naval Academy, standing 2nd in a class of 179. Assigned to CA Soya
1910-7-16   BB Mikasa
1910-12-1   BB Kasuga
1910-12-15 Ensign  
1911-1-18   BC Kurama
1912-4-24   Gunnery School Basic Course
1912-8-9   Torpedo School Basic Course
1912-12-1 Lieutenant junior grade     
 
1913-2-10   CA Takachiho
1913-9-26   BB Hiei
1914-7-19   Destroyer Division 17
1915-12-13 Lieutenant BB Fuso
1916-12-1   Naval College B Course
1917-5-1   Naval College Major Course
1917-12-1   Yodo
1918-12-1   Resident in Switzerland
1921-9-1   Resident in France
1921-12-1 Lieutenant commander     

1922-3-1   CL Kuma
1922-12-1   Naval College A Course
1924-12-1   Staff, B-NA, Navy Department
1925-12-1 Commander  
1927-10-1   Navy General Staff
1927-11-1   Attache, Italy
1929-11-30 Captain  
1930-1-10   Instructor, Naval College
1932-10-1   Navy General Staff
1932-11-1   Chief, S1, B-NA, Navy Department
1933-9-20   1 Naval District
1933-11-15   Commander, BB Hiei
1935-8-1   1 Naval District
1935-11-15 Rear admiral
Chief of staff, 1 Naval District
1936-11-16   Navy General Staff
1937-10-20   Director, B-NA, Navy Department
1939-10-23   Chief of staff, 3 Fleet
1939-11-15 Vice admiral
Chief of staff, China Area Fleet
1940-10-1   Director, Naval Aircraft Command
1941-8-11   Commander, 4 Fleet
1942-10-26   Director, Naval Academy
1944-8-5   Navy Vice Minister
1945-5-15 Admiral Naval Councilor
1945-10-10   Retires
1975-12-15   Dies


References

Boatner (1996)

Dupuy et.al. (1992)

Fuller (1992)

Lundstrom (2006)

Materials of IJN (accessed 2007-12-11)

Prados (1995)

Thomas (2006)


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